It contains a lot of information about grave plots and the location of the cemetery, as well as photographs, when available: I have had great luck finding my Dutch ancestors on the following site. Some countries also have organizations dedicated to creating indexes of cemeteries in their country (just like with our popular US sites).īelow, I have listed a few websites for select countries where you may be able to locate your ancestors’ grave sites in those locations. To do so, you can do a Google search, perhaps in the target language. It takes a lot of financial resources to maintain cemeteries, and even more to create online databases for people in other countries to search through.įor these reasons, we may never be able to locate where all of our ancestors were buried.Įven so, you may still want to try to locate individual cemetery records for the locality where your ancestor was buried. While many of the resources that I listed above do have cemeteries indexed that are located outside of the United States, you might find that the place where your ancestors were buried has not been indexed yet.Īdditionally, many countries either do not have a culture of preserving graves for hundreds of years in community cemeteries or have found that their cemeteries and grave sites have been destroyed due to war or natural disaster.
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How to locate cemetery grave sites in other countries
If your ancestor was in the military, but they were buried or their death was commemorated at a monument or memorial, you might have luck searching the American Battle Monument Commission Memorials and Burials index. You can access this grave site locator by the following link: Plus, you will find records of those service members buried in private cemeteries if the grave has a government-issued grave marker. You can find records pertaining to veterans of the United States military who are buried in National Cemeteries, state veterans cemeteries, and other government cemeteries. If you know that your ancestor was in the United States military, you might have success searching the National Grave site Locator, which is a site managed by the Veterans Administration. How to locate United States Military Personnel grave sites This is another great site that has many thousands of cemeteries indexed and millions of grave sites:
You can access BillionGraves by clicking the link below:
While most of the graves are located in the United States, those with ancestors from other countries will be happy to know that there are hundreds of cemeteries indexed from countries all over the world. This is a large, comprehensive website with cemeteries indexed and photographed from all over the world.
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