Detailed information about the deceaseds location. “Finally Historic Environment Scotland also hosts Canmore, an online database that currently has some 1.3 million catalogue entries, such as drawings and manuscripts, as well as an Image Search facility of more than 333,000 images. Families and genealogists can look up burial information on their ancestors or their own family plot. Australia and New Zealand, Find A Grave Index, 1800s-Current. I have obtained vital information in respect to changes in parish boundaries when searching for elusive clan interments. Find A Grave is owned by, which I consider to be one of the most stable genealogy companies in the universe. For example, most of the publications by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, from 1908 to 2015, have been digitised and are now available to search and download.
As such, Historic Environment Scotland has been a valuable resource in my search for private burial grounds that are now lost, or grave markers that have since disappeared. “I live in the remote Highlands of Scotland, where gaining access to physical library collections is no simple matter, involving journeys of many hours and hundreds of miles. If you’re searching for Belfast cemetery records, meanwhile, the council website has 360,000 records from three cemeteries dating back to 1869. Over the past 18 years, it has grown to become an invaluable resource for genealogists, history buffs and cemetery preservationists. BillionGraves has a much newer battalion. I don’t have the numbers, but Find A Grave has a large army of volunteers willing to respond to requests for new photographs. Manchester is well-provided for cemetery records, with burial and cremation records from six municipal cemeteries available via the city council website. With over 100 million memorials and 75 million photos, Find A Grave has amassed an unparalleled collection of burial information. Find A Grave is much, much more comprehensive: On, the Find A Grave index contains 124,060,301 records, while the BillionGraves index has 10,376,845. TheGenealogist also runs a headstone photographic project via UKIndexer with thousands of images and records. While you’re trying to find cemetery records, a good place to start is Findmypast, which has significant memorial inscriptions collections from England and Scotland.
Keep in mind, however, that some people may have asked to be buried a long way from where they were living when they died. Graveyards, municipal cemeteries and crematoria look after their own records, there is no central registry, and what is available online varies a great deal from place to place. Fortunately, over the past two decades the gaps in finding cemetery records have gradually been filled by community-generated and commercial hubs specialising in memorial inscriptions and cemetery records.
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