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Find a Grave--Family History

Have you forgotten where your grandparents are buried? Are you doing a genealogy search for your family tree? Maybe you are interested in famous graves located near where you live. Whatever your reasons, follow these tips to find a grave.

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Find a Grave: Information

Find a GraveIn order to locate people in cemeteries, you need the birth and death dates and an accurate spelling of their names. You can find these in census reports, if you don't know anywhere else to get them.

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www.findagrave.com

Find a GraveFindagrave

This site is a free resource for finding the final resting place of family friends or famous people. It can be searched by family, cemeteries, location, or obituaries. A man named Jim Tipton created this website because he was interested in finding graves of famous people. Then the idea caught on and hundreds and thousands of people started contributing names and graves to this website.

Another way to use Findagrave is to create online memorials for your loved ones. Locate the cemetery your relatives are in and you can usually see a picture of the grave and add flowers.

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Daddezio.com

Find a GraveDaddezio.com

All of the United States cemeteries are listed alphabetically and can be searched by state and by name. This site gives tools to research Italian ancestry
This site also lists cemeteries in Canada and Australia. This website was started to help people all over the world find information about their family tree.

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Everything One Could Want in a Genealogy Book

Who Do You Think You Are?: The Essential Guide to Tracing Your Family History

Who Do You Think You Are?: The Essential Guide to Tracing Your Family History

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When I'm learning something new, I want information in an easy to understand format. This book is for the layman and the experienced researcher. It contains something for everyone. This book tells the reader everything they really would want to know about the subject and makes if fun to learn. This is a reference book you will consult over and over.

Interment.net

interment.net

This interment.net website is dedicated to genealogists and historians. Families use this online library to "locate burials of their family and friends, trace their family history, and learn something about cemeteries in general." This website started in 1997 as a directory of links to websites that publish cemetery records. Individuals started sending actual burial records to be published and eventually that is the direction this website took.

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  • RetroMom Apr 19, 2012 @ 5:49 pm | delete
    High five! This are really great tips in finding lost graves. Your insight is impeccable. Great job!
  • KM9999999 Mar 12, 2012 @ 12:20 am | delete
    Good info. I do have some relatives that I wouldn't mind knowing where they were buried.
  • aj2008 Feb 25, 2012 @ 10:45 am | delete
    My husband is currently researching his family tree - I have just told him about this page :)
  • flipflopju Feb 16, 2012 @ 7:52 pm | delete
    I knew about findagrave but those other sites are sure to help.
  • happynutritionist Jan 19, 2012 @ 3:58 pm | delete
    I have to get back to doing geneology research...this is such a helpful resource, thank you!
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