Cemetery records and cemeteries in general are a very large part of our family history and is a significant pursuit for many genealogists. Sometimes, the information on a headstone is the only information available for certain ancestors.
What can you find in these records? How about birth, marriage, and death information and clues to military service, religion, and organization memberships. Location of the burial plot, tombstone inscriptions, cemetery maps, sexton registers, and headstone photos are also generally available.
Here are a few good primers on the benefits of searching cemetery records:
- FamilySearch - United States Cemeteries
- A Gravesite Can Reveal Remarkable Details About Your Ancestor, IF You Can Find It: Here’s How
- Rootsweb - Cemetery Records
I have not performed separate searches from Find a Grave, Billion Graves, or Interment.net by county or individual cemetery as that would be time prohibitive. Those sites are very useful, and you might find references to them from sub-collection links.
Note: Some of the links listed take you to a FamilySearch Collection of digital images. Near the bottom of the page under Film/Digital Notes is the name of each sub-collection. If there is a camera icon at the right of the name (in the Format column) then the collections' images are browsable. If there is a camera with a key icon, it is only available at a Family History Center or affiliated library. If there is a film reel icon, then it is only available in microfilm format, not digital. To take full advantage, please make sure that you are logged in to FamilySearch. The results may be different if you are signed in, rather than not.
Below are links to cemetery, burial, and interment records as well as indexes and tombstone inscriptions that are available for free online.
General U.S.
- African American Cemeteries.com
- Billion Graves Index
- Find A Grave Index
- Names in Stone Cemetery Maps
- United States, Cemetery Abstracts, 1949-1969
- US GenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project
- Veteran's Nationwide Gravesite Locator
West Virginia
- Barbour County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Barbour County Cemetery Records
- Barbour County Cemetery Readings
- Barbour County, Cemetery Register of Burials, 1816-1899
- Berkeley County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Berkeley County Cemetery Records
- Berkeley County Cemetery Records
- Berkley County Cemetery Records
- Bluefield, Walnut Grove Cemetery Records
- Boone County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Boone County Cemetery Records
- Braxton County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Braxton County Cemetery Records
- Braxton County, Cemeteries index
- Bridgeport Cemetery Listing
- Brooke County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Brooke County Cemetery Records
- Brooke County Cemetery Records
- Cabell County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Cabell County Cemetery Records
- Cabell County Cemetery Records
- Cabell County Cemetery Records, 1793-1943
- Cabell County, Early Cemeteries
- Calhoun County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Calhoun County Cemetery Records
- Calhoun County Cemetery Records
- Calhoun County, Index to Cemeteries
- Clay County births, marriages, deaths, wills, inventories and Cemetery Records
- Clay County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Clay County Cemetery Records
- Clay County Cemetery Records
- Clay County, Civil War Burial Records
- Doddridge County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Doddridge County Cemetery Records
- Doddridge County Cemetery Records
- Earls, Hatten, Springhill and Woodmere Cemetery Records, 1820-1940
- Fayette County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Fayette County Cemetery Records
- Gilmer County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Gilmer County Cemetery Records
- Gilmer County, Center District, A Census of Cemeteries
- Gilmer County, Troy District, A census of Cemeteries
- Grant County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Grant County Cemetery Records
- Greenbrier County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Greenbrier County Cemetery Records
- Greenbrier County Cemetery Records
- Greenbrier County, Cemetery Records
- Hampshire County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Hampshire County Cemetery Records
- Hampshire County Cemetery Records
- Hampshire County Cemetery Records, 1829-1924
- Hancock County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Hancock County Cemetery Records
- Hancock County Cemetery Records
- Hancock County Cemetery Records
- Hancock County deaths, deeds, wills, inventories, church and Cemetery Records
- Hardy County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Hardy County Cemetery Records
- Hardy County Cemetery Records
- Hardy County Cemetery Records
- Harrison County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Harrison County Cemetery Records
- Harrison County Cemetery Records
- Harrison County, Deaths
- Jackson County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Jackson County Cemetery Records
- Jackson County Cemetery Records
- Jefferson County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Jefferson County Cemetery Records
- Jefferson County Cemetery Records
- Jefferson County, List of Family Graveyards and Cemetery Records 1743-1908
- Kanawha County Ward Cemetery
- Kanawha County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Kanawha County Cemetery Records
- Kanawha County, Cemeteries
- Kanawha County, Templeton Cemetery
- Lake Branch Cemetery off corridor "G"
- Lewis County Cemetery Records
- Lewis County Cemetery Records
- Lewis County, Old Cemeteries in 1830-1930
- Lincoln County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Lincoln County Cemetery Records
- Logan County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Logan County Cemetery Records
- Logan County Cemetery Records
- Marion County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Marion County Cemetery Records
- Marion County Cemetery Records
- Marion County Deaths, 1864-1900 : Cemetery Registers, 1750-1940
- Marion County, Fairmont and Grant Magisterial Districts, Cemetery Readings
- Marion County, Lincoln and Paw Paw Magisterial Districts, Cemetery Readings
- Marion County, Union, Winfield and Mannington Magisterial Districts, Cemetery Readings
- Marshall County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Marshall County Cemetery Records
- Marshall County Cemetery Records
- Marshall County, Cemetery Records
- Marshall, Mercer & Kanawha County Cemetery Records, 1787-1942
- Mason County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Mason County Cemetery Records
- Mason County Cemetery Records
- McDowell County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- McDowell County Cemetery Records
- McDowell County Cemetery Records
- Mercer County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Mercer County Cemetery Records
- Mineral County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Mineral County Cemetery Records
- Mingo County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Mingo County Cemetery Records
- Mingo County Cemetery Records
- Monongalia County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Monongalia County Cemetery Records
- Monroe County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Monroe County Cemetery Records
- Morgan County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Morgan County Cemetery Records
- Nicholas County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Nicholas County Cemetery Records
- Ohio County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Ohio County Cemetery Records
- Ohio County Cemetery Records
- Ohio County, Mt. Wood Cemetery Records
- Parkersburg & Wood County Public Library Cemetery Records
- Parkersburg Cemeteries and Records
- Pendleton County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Pendleton County Cemetery Records
- Pleasants County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Pleasants County Cemetery Records
- Pleasants County Cemetery Records
- Pocahontas County births, marriages, deaths, wills, church and Cemetery Records (1748-1935)
- Pocahontas County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Pocahontas County Cemetery Records
- Pocahontas County Cemetery Records
- Preston County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Preston County Cemetery Records
- Putnam County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Putnam County Cemetery Records
- Raleigh County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Raleigh County Cemetery Records
- Raleigh County Cemetery Records
- Randolph County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Randolph County Cemetery Records
- Ritchie County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Ritchie County Cemetery Records
- Ritchie County Cemetery Records
- Roane County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Roane County Cemeteries, Walton District
- Roane County Cemetery Records
- Roane County Genealogy Project, Cemeteries
- Roane County, Deaths
- Shepherdstown Lutheran Cemetery, 1773-1914
- Spring Hill Cemetery Record, 1876-1915
- Summers County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Summers County Cemetery Records
- Taylor County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Taylor County Cemetery Records
- Taylor County Cemetery Records
- Tucker County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Tucker County Cemetery Records
- Tucker County Cemetery Records
- Tyler County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Tyler County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Tyler County Cemetery Records
- Tyler County Cemetery Records
- Upshur County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Upshur County Cemetery Records
- Upshur County Cemetery Records
- Upshur County History
- Wayne County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Wayne County Cemetery Records
- Wayne County Cemetery Records
- Webster County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Webster County Cemetery Records
- Webster County Cemetery Records
- West Virginia Cemetery Census
- West Virginia Cemetery Readings, 1940-41
- West Virginia Cemetery Records
- West Virginia Deaths and Burials, 1854-1932
- West Virginia Gravestone Photo Project
- West Virginia Roots Cemeteries and Cemetery Records (by county)
- West Virginia, Cemetery and Family Records, 1754-1900
- West Virginia, Disinterment and Reburials, 1980-1993
- Wetzel County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Wetzel County Cemetery Records
- Wetzel County Cemetery Records
- Wheeling and Bethany Cemetery Records, 1770-1943
- Williamstown Cemetery, 1858-1924
- Wirt County Cemeteries
- Wirt County Cemeteries
- Wirt County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Wirt County Cemetery Records
- Wirt County Cemetery Records
- Wood County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Wood County Cemetery Inscriptions
- Wood County Cemetery Records
- Wood County Cemetery Records
- Wood County, Index to Cemeteries : volumes 1-6
- Wood County, Tombstone Readings
- Wyoming County Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Wyoming County Cemetery Records
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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