Cemetery Records

Cemetery records — including gravestone inscriptions, burial registers, and sexton records — provide birth and death dates, family relationships, and sometimes places of origin not found in other sources. Heritage Books carries published transcriptions of cemetery records from across the United States and the British Isles, organized by state and county. Many of the cemeteries transcribed in these volumes are small family or rural burying grounds whose stones have since deteriorated, making the published record the only surviving documentation.