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Cemeteries and Obituaries
A source of
Vital Information
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Cemetery Records• Can be a place to find…
•Family members •Relatives in other plots•Children who died young•Women not found in other records
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Cemetery Records
• Often include information about:
•Birth•Marriage•Death
And sometimes:•Military service•Religion•Membership in an Organization
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Cemetery RecordsVary in completeness and accuracy.
Records may be difficult to locate.
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Cemetery RecordsDetermining a burial place can be
a difficult problem.
Use Obituaries and Death Certificates to solve this problem.
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Burial place listed here.
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Burial place listed here.
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There are There are 5 TYPES5 TYPES
of Cemeteries of Cemeteries in Americain America..
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1. Churchyard
Members buried here.Custom from the Old World.Common in colonial states.
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2. Church-owned Cemetery
• Not adjacent to Church building but is owned and operated by the church.
• Example in SLC is Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery .
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3. Government-owned Cemetery• Includes military
• Can be at town, county, state or national levels
• Maintained by taxes
• Salt Lake City Cemetery is an example. DeRuyter Town Cemetery,
New York
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4. Privately-owned, non-church cemetery
• Operated as a business enterprise; is a corporation.
• More common in recent years.
• Larkin Sunset Lawn is an example in Salt Lake City.
Poukeepsie Cemetery
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5. The Family Cemetery• Often just a small
corner of the family farm or estate.
• Set aside for family members and relatives.
• Found throughout Utah on hillsides and farms.
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2 Types of Cemetery RecordsCemetery Records1. Sexton’s Records 2. Tombstone or Gravestones
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1. Sexton’s Records
~ started around the time of the Civil War
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Sexton’s Sexton’s RecordsRecords
Provide ~
Names and dates
of those buried.
They are not obliged to share these records.
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Sexton Sexton
may also provide
Maps of
burial plots
Salt Lake City Cemetery
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How to Contact Sextons• FHL Resources include:
• “Cemeteries of the United States”– Organized by County
• “United States Cemetery Addressbook”– Organized by State and Town
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“Cemeteries of the United States”
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United States
Cemetery Address
book
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• Tombstones or Gravestones•The Other Cemetery Record
Have been around a very long time.May be only record that a person lived and died.
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• The two types of Cemetery Records:
• Sexton’s Records• Tombstones or Gravestones
These may be transcribed and found in publications.
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How to Find Transcriptions of Cemetery Records in the
Family History Library and elsewhere…
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One FHL Tool:“The Cemetery
Record Compendium”
1979by Jack Stemmons, FHL
[has a Key to Format]
Lists some of the Library Cemetery Record Holdings
Uses our film numbers
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Other Tools for finding Transcriptions of Cemetery
Records• Library Catalog Topics:
– Cemeteries
– Vital records– Also found under Newspapers and
Obituaries
•PERSI
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The FHLC can provide Cemetery helps like
“Index to United States Cemeteries”
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Let’s do a search for a Mrs. Roxana Dame in the Niagara, New York area.
We’ll use the FHL catalog.
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4 search paths
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L.D.J. December 6, 1884, p 2 c 5 In Royalton, Nov 28, 1884 – Dame- Mrs. Roxana Dame, relict of Samuel Dame age 88 yr., resided here 50 yr. Born Vermont. Early to Canada. 1st husb. Capt. Cutter with whom came N.Y. 4 children. He died consumption. She mar. Samuel Dame. Members M. E. Church Grandchildren. Miss Sara and Orlanda Dame. Lived with James C. Swift Family, Mrs. Swift being a step-daughter.
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Lockport Daily Advertiser is a close match.
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How can we locate
a newspaper
entry?
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This shows the location where a copy of the actual newspaper article can be found.
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Let’s do another search.This time we’ll use PERSIPERSI because the catalog doesn’t
have what I’m looking for in Dryden, Tompkins, New
York.
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Periodical is New York Genealogical and
Biographical RecordBYGBR’s
Found in FHL
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This gives tombstone readings
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The Sexton’s Records for Willow Glen Cemetery
look like this…
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Another source for Cemetery or
Obituary Records is
Newspaper Newspaper TranscriptsTranscripts
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A valuable source of older record
information
Easier to find than original copies.
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Abstracts can look
like this…
They can provide
good information.
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The FHL cannotcannot house microfilms of all newspapers.
It has some.
The FHL can be a good source for INDEXES to newspapers.
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Good example of a
newspaper Index is
the “New York New York
Times IndexTimes Index”
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Use the index to locate actual articles.
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Locating an actual
obituary can be very
valuable in gathering
family histories.