U.s. find a grave index 1600s current plus#
Get detailed step-by-steps for using Find A Grave and Billion Graves, plus guides for understanding tombstone epitaphs and symbol meanings in this brand new book: The Family Tree Cemetery Field Guide. RootsMagic and Family Tree Maker will both sync to your Ancestry tree– click here to see why Lisa Louise Cooke prefers RootsMagic.) More Cemetery Resources If you search separately at Find A Grave, you have to create a separate source citation to attach to your tree.” (Note: hopefully, if you’re building your tree on, you’re syncing it to your own software. If you build your tree on, it’s easy to attach Find A Grave search results to your ancestor’s tree profiles. As you can see from the screenshots above, Ancestry offers more fields to enter, including relatives’ names (and people are often buried with relatives), a more detailed place field, and keywords.ģ. It will return search result possibilities that don’t have to match exactly. It’s awfully nice that Ancestry could find it:Ī is much more forgiving and flexible about spelling and places. I didn’t search on a partial name because I’ve never come across a different spelling of his before, and I certainly didn’t expect to see one on his tombstone! But sure enough, the name is not spelled as it had been throughout his life. Turns out there was an extra “t” on his surname (see results below). I then hopped over to Ancestry, went to the card catalog, and searched the U.S. It’s pickier about the search results it returns: does the spelling match? And is a potential result in the exact place you requested? (If you search a specific county, Find A Grave will only return results from that county–not in an adjacent county, across the state line, or even across the country where an ancestor may have been interred.) Lacey has a great example below.įrom Lacey: Here’s a search of my 3X great grandfather at Find A Grave: ’s search tool. Find A Grave has a nice but basic search tool. You’re already searching in : you don’t need to remember to switch over to search Find A Grave separately for each ancestor.Ģ.
“If you’re already an subscriber, searching Find A Grave from within may be a good choice for these three reasons:ġ.
U.s. find a grave index 1600s current free#
So why would you go to to search records that are already free at Find A Grave? Genealogy Gems Contributing Editor Sunny Morton, our resident expert on the giant genealogy websites, says: Last we checked, they boast 162 million grave records! Their catalog of cemeteries tops 400,000, spread out over 200 different countries, and they have at least a partial listing of graves for well over half of these (over 250,000).
Find A Grave is a free website with crowd-sourced tombstone images and transcriptions from cemeteries all over the world.
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