Cemetery Transcriptions Available Online

The USGenWeb project is sponsoring a wonderful project to transcribe information from headstones across the country. If you live near a cemetery which has not yet been documented by USGenWeb, think about volunteering. You can find information about the Tombstone Transcription Project page at their Web site. Transcribed cemetery information is already being placed on the Web! To find out which states have information online, pop over to the Cemetery Registry and pick the state you're interested in. An excellent example of the online project can be seen at the Wicomico County Cemetery Project page.

A Web page with excellent advice on maintaining grave sites and making transcriptions is the Cemetery Dos and Don'ts. The Cemetery Interment Lists on Internet site has a directory of all the sites online which have cemetery transcriptions, and includes links to cemetery transcription sites for other countries.

British and Canadian Cemetery Records Online

The Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid (OCFA) has a database of over 1.1 million interments in Ontario. This is an exceptional project, and I highly recommend a visit if you have Canadian ancestry. You can also download the OCFA files to your own computer, but an easier way to own OCFA is to purchase the database on CD from GenRef.

The British Columbia Cemetery Finding Aid is a database "of the surnames, cemetery name and location of more than 100,000 entries collected from records and headstone inscriptions associated with 141 cemeteries situated in the province of British Columbia, Canada and one from the state of Washington, USA." You can search the files online, or download the datafiles to your own computer.

Researchers of British descent will want to visit the Monumental Inscriptions page for information about their services and the project.