Find a Grave
Introduction[edit | edit source]
Find a Grave hosts the world’s largest gravesite record collection with over 226 million memorials in 564,000 cemeteries around the world, expanding daily. All information on Find a Grave can be viewed for free, without registering.
The memorials, headstone photos, GPS locations, and everything else you’ll find are contributed by the Find a Grave community, a network with millions of passionate volunteers whose mission is to find, document and record burial information, memorializing those who have passed. Since 1995, the site has provided tools to let people from all over the world work together, share information, and build an online virtual cemetery experience for free, so that everyone can find information about their ancestors, family and friends.
What can I find on a Find a Grave memorial? Take a virtual tour[edit | edit source]
- Names of deceased
- Birth and death dates and locations
- Cemetery where buried
- Grave photos and photos of the person and their family
- GPS grave locations
- Plot information
- Gravesite details
- Inscriptions and epitaphs, military, religoious, or fraternal information, other symbols or icons
- Family relationships
- Biographies
- Virtual flowers
How do I search on Find a Grave?[edit | edit source]
From the memorial search on Find a Grave add the name of the deceased and an approximate date of death. To narrow down your search further add a location for the burial. Select Search. Learn more about searching here. If a memorial hasn't been added for the individual and you know the burial location, you can add the memorial to Find a Grave.
Why do people contribute grave photos to Find a Grave?[edit | edit source]
- Headstone inscriptions contain valuable genealogical information
- To preserve the information - Headstones deteriorate, are covered or fade over time
- To help everyone find the burial locations of their ancestors, family and friends
- To memorialize and honor those who have passed
- Find a Grave provides outstanding collaborative tools for this work
- Find a Grave is free for everyone
- Receive valuable help from the largest graving community worldwide
- Find a Grave app is easy to use
How do I get started?[edit | edit source]
To find out more about what you can do on the site and how you can help and contribute to the mission, click here.
What are some other things I can do on Find a Grave?[edit | edit source]
- Use Memorial Search and find graves
- Send updates and corrections through Suggest Edits on memorial pages
- Add Photos and other rich content on memorial pages
- Manage memorials
- Create virtual cemeteries
- Explore or add cemetery pages. Try adding a location to the cemetery search to see a list of cemeteries located there. Click on a cemetery to see the work that has been done there, search, view and sort memorial lists for those buried there and a cemetery map.
- Transcribe Photos for the community
- Explore Famous graves
- Upload a spreadsheet with information for memorials in a cemetery
Learn more about the community through Volunteer Spotlights
Check out the support site and Guides on the Find a Grave newsblog.
- FindAGrave Index - FamilySearch Historical Records -- gives information about the Find a Grave Index on FamilySearch