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Online Resources[edit | edit source]
- Online Texas Death Records & Indexes
- Texas Cemetery Records at Interment.net
- Findagrave.com Texas Cemetery Records
- Billiongraves.com Texas Cemeteries
- BillionGraves Index
- United States, Cemetery Abstracts at FamilySearch — index
- USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project
- Linkpendium Search by county.
- D'ADDEZIO Cemetery
- USGenWeb Tombstone Photos
- Access Genealogy
- Texas Cemetery Records
- I Dream of Genealogy Texas Cemeteries
- Texas Gravestone Project, index
- Texas, Houston, Historic Hollywood Cemetery Records, 1895-2008 — index and images
- Texas, Bexar County, San Antonio Cemetery Records, 1893-2007 — index and images
Online[edit | edit source]
The following have significant cemetery listings for Texas State:
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Sites may be incomplete. • They may not list all cemeteries in a county • and may not include all burials in a cemetery. |
- Findagrave.com Search for names at Find A Grave. Enter at least a last name then click Search. Can narrow by first names or dates.
- This site frequently has tombstone images.
- List of cemeteries in their database.
- 1) Select the state, 2) pick a county, and 3) click Search. (There are too many cemeteries for a statewide list.)
- Tip: To switch to a different county, click Cemetery Lookup under Actions at the left.
- When you have a list, click on the number below Interments for a cemetery to access names. Click Records arrow to scroll through to the end.
- 1) Select the state, 2) pick a county, and 3) click Search. (There are too many cemeteries for a statewide list.)
- Web: Texas, Find A Grave Index, 1761-2012 at Ancestry.com (Free[1]/$)
- Find A Grave Index Family Search (Free)
- Find A Grave (Free)
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- Interment.net Cemetery Transcriptions
- Tea for 2 Headstone photos
- Linkpendium Search by county.
- Cemeteries-of-Texas Transcriptions and cemetery photos.
- Texas Historic Cemeteries Cemetery information from the Texas Historical Commission.
- Texas Cemetery Records (at Texas Genealogy), Cemetery inscriptions online organized by county and city
- Cemeteries of The Diocese of Victoriaand name search of many of the cemeteries(scroll to bottom of page)
- HistoricTexasCemeteries.com Maps, transcriptions, information and more, sorted by county
A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:
Texas, Bexar, San Antonio, Cemetery Records ( FamilySearch Historical Records)
Published Transcriptions[edit | edit source]
- - Brinley, Lorine. Cemetery Records: A Texas and Louisiana Collection. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society, 1959. FHL book 976 A1 no. 3 and FHL film 908964 item 8 This contains card indexes.Transcripts for many cemetery are on films 206289-303.
- -Cemetery Records of Texas. Six Volumes. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society, 1956-63. FHL book 976.4 V3d and FHL films 897234-35
- Lists of the cemeteries in each county that are included in the above collections are in Sharry Crofford-Gould, Texas Cemetery Inscriptions: A Source Index. San Antonio, Texas: Limited Editions, 1977. FHL book 976.4 A1 no. 56
- Some of the earliest burials in Texas are recorded in Mrs. Malcolm B. Biggerstaff, Four Thousand Tombstone Inscriptions from Texas, 1745-1870: Along the Old San Antonio Road and the Trail of Austin's Colonists. Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1952. FHL book 976.4 V3b
- The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) collection also contains tombstone inscriptions from many Texas cemeteries. This collection is described in the "Genealogy" article in this Wiki.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ May be used for free at Family History Center. To locate a center near you, click here.
