Thousands of online sites provide tombstone transcriptions, gravestone photos and other cemetery and burial data, many if not most of them for free. If you're looking for burial informaton for your ancestors, however, these are the cemetery sites and databases you should check first.
Browse descriptions and photos of graves of thousands of famous people from around the world. The site also lists
over 19 million grave records for "non famous" ancestors.
Explore thousands of transcriptions of cemetery records and tombstone inscriptions, from cemeteries in the USA, Canada, England, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries around the world. Search by surname or browse by location in this large, free database of cemetery transcriptions.
The mission of this volunteer project is to catalog every Jewish burial site throughout the world. Search the Jewishgen Online Worldwide Burial Registry database, or browse by country of interest.
Search for burial locations of United States veterans and their family members in VA National Cemeteries, state veterans cemeteries, and other military and Department of Interior cemeteries, as well as for veterans buried in private cemeteries when the grave is marked with a government grave marker.
Find personal and service details and places of commemoration for the 1.7 million members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First or Second World Wars. Includes service members and civilian casualties from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa.
