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CEMETERIES AND CHURCHYARDS

Find information about  an historical cemetery or it's famous residents,  take a virtual tour of the Sedlec Ossuary, plan a trip with an online planning guide, or learn how to join the preservation or conservation effort of cemeteries in disrepair.

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  Link   Genealogy.com's Virtual Cemetery
The Virtual Cemetery Project is a collection of tombstone photos and a fully searchable archive of transcriptions. Members of the Genealogy.com community contributed all of the tombstone photographs in this collection and we encourage you to add your
  Link   Dark Fear
Cemetery Photo Gallery
  Link   Old Jewish Cemetery Florence
International Survey of Jewish Monuments is an independent non-profit membership based educational organization dedicated to the documentation study care and conservation of historic Jewish sites throughout the world.
  Link   Massachusetts Saving Graves
Massachusetts Cemetery Preservation Law and other cemetery related links
  Link   Rome War Cemetery
Rome War Cemetery contains 426 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War.
  Link   The Protestant Cemetery of Florence
This essay is linked to files of use to scholars genealogists and relatives giving the complete registry of the tombs in the so-called English Cemetery in Florence and the Cimitero agli Allori just outside Florence which opened in 1877.
  Link   Cimeitero Monumentale
The Monumental Cemetery is in fact an enormous area some 250,000 square metres of tombs in all kinds and sizes.
  Link   St. Patrick Cemetery
The Catholic burial ground at Lowell MA
  Link   Woodlawn Cemetery
Woodlawn Cemetery has now had the privilege of serving the public and the communities surrounding it in three different centuries: the 19th 20th and now the 21st century.
  Link   Tower Hill Cemetery
These photographs and transcripts were collected from the oldest colonial gravestones at Tower Hill Cemetery in Edgartown Dukes Co. Mass.
  Link   Abel's Hill Cemetery
These photographs and transcripts were collected from some of the colonial gravestones at Abels Hill Cemetery in Chilmark Dukes Co. Mass.
  Link   Cape Cod Gravestones
Gravestones Dated 1683 - 1860 in Barnstable County Massachusetts. Gravestone Records from the 15 Towns of Cape Cod
  Link   Massachusetts National Cemetery
The Massachusetts National Cemetery was dedicated on October 11 1980 and became the third new national cemetery to open in nearly 30 years. The site was officially named the Veterans Administration National Cemetery of Bourne Mass.
  Link   Texas State Cemetery
Texas
  Link   Crown Hill Cemetery
Indiana
  Link   Mount Auburn Cemetery
Mount Auburn
  Link   Historic Oakland Cemetery
Georgia
  Link   Arlington National Cemetery
Military
  Link   Graceland Cemetery
Established in 1860 and designed by Chicago landscape architect O.C. Simonds Graceland Cemetery is truly a haven in the City.  Massive oaks elms and maples stand in testament to the architecturally significant monuments and markers that cover&nb
  Link   The Northern Cemetery in Leeuwarden
Dutch cemetery galleries
  Link   Maine Old Cemetery Association
The Maine Old Cemetery Association was founded in 1969 for the main purposes of locating old cemeteries in the state of Maine encouraging the care and preservation of those cemeteries and the gathering and preservation of historical information regar
  Link   Texas Historical Commission
Texas Historical Commissions (THC) cemetery program for preservation recording theft and vandalism
  Link   Historic Elmwood Cemetery
Oldest cemetery in Memphis Tennessee chartered in 1852
  Link   Chicora Foundation
maintenance resetting and cleaning information
  Link   Conneticut Gravestone Network
Connecticut Gravestone Network is dedicated to protecting Connecticuts old burying grounds and preserving their historic significance.
  Link   The Historic Congressional Cemetery
Washington DC cemetery established in 1807
  Link   Beneath Detroit Cemeteries
The Online Cemetery of Detroit History
  Link   The Final Curtain
The Final Curtain is a series of memorial parks dedicated to creative souls. Those who are laid to rest here are memorialized by their own creations which serve as both tomb and eternal exhibit of their most personally meaningful work
  Link   Philadelphia Graveyards & Cemeteries
The companion website to the new book Philadelphia Graveyards and Cemeteries by Thomas H. Keels and published by Arcadia. A fresh and fascinating pictorial study of Philadelphia cemeteries then and now. The site also includes a calendar of upcoming e
  Link   Roadside Memorials
Irelands Roadside memorials mostly elaborate plaques and monuments adorned with photos and inscriptions are among the most sophisticated and most prolific of any country. On this huge website you can examine over 600 shrines and memorials all
  Link   Portsmouth Old Graves: the History of Portsmouth NH
Experience the rich history of Portsmouth NH as told through its cemeteries. Special Events and Programs listings gravestone restoration projects and noteworthy Portsmouth citizens of the past.
  Link   London Cemeteries
"London Cemeteries is an almost-complete project to create a photographic record of visits to all 100+ cemeteries in London England."
  Link   Virtual Tourist
Cemeteries tips and photos posted by real travelers and Boston locals.
  Link   City Of Shadows
A Virtual Tour of Highgate Cemetery
  Link   City of Stones
A gallery of cemeteries featuring the various markers and statues which populate them
  Link   eCemetery.org - Online Memorial Virtual Cemetery
An Online Memorial virtual cemetery creating monument of eternal memory for your departed loved ones
  Link   The Taphophile Times
Photographic tour of cemeteries and tombstone studies in southeastern Minnesota and northeastern Iowa.
  Link   Oak Hill Cemetery
A virtual tour of historic Oak Hill Cemetery in Birmingham Alabama
  Link   Findagrave.com
Over 7000000 grave records some with photos & bios. Also section for searching out the graves of famous individuals.
  Link   La Certosa di Bologna
image gallery of Italian monuments
  Link   The Cemetery Group
A website featuring all of the green burial cemetery locations in the United States.
  Link   Purewa Cemetery
PUREWA CEMETERY AND CREMATORIUM OFFERS BEREAVED FAMILIES AND RELATIVES
  Link   Massachussetts Cemetery Directory
This is a site with directions to the cemeteries in the state but it has a great photo of the tombstone of Mother Goose!
  Link   The New York Marble Cemetery
a small burial ground in lower Manhattan. Most of the 2060 interments took place between 1830 and 1870. All burials are in 156 below-ground vaults made of solid white Tuckahoe marble. Descendants of the original owners can still be buried here.
  Link   Abney Park Cemetery Trust
"Abney Park is a large London Cemetery originally laid out in 1840 as one of a group of new burial grounds designed to relieve pressure on over-crowded churchyards."
  Link   Highgate Cemetery
London Cemetery opened in 1838
  Link   Huron Indian Cemetery Website
Read the history of the curse of Huron Indian Cemetery
  Link   Hollywood Cemetery
Richmond VA
  Link   Pharmcats Cemetery Photos
Cemtery Photo Galleries
  Link   The Confederate Cemetery List
"Dedicated to listing all the Final Resting Places of our Beloved Soldiers"
  Link   Little Home of Horrors
Beautiful gravestones from Hollywood Memorial Cemetery in Hollywood CA
  Link   Hope Cemetery in Barre Vermont
Opened in 1896 this graveyard is an art gallery celebrating life in the midst of death with some of the most compelling and quirky art cemetery stonests in the nation.
  Link   Virtual Cemetery
The Virtual Cemetery is an electronic memorial to our ancestors and an invaluable source of genealogical information.
  Link   Cemeteries of Florida
Memorial Art in Florida
  Link   The Ghostwalker
Touring the Historical Cemeteries of Colorado
  Link   Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus Ohio cemetery established in 1848
  Link   Ohio Exploration Society
Photos of Ohio Cemeteries from the 1800s
  Link   The Green-Wood Cemetery
Brooklyns Green-Wood Cemetery is New Yorks Buried Treasure established in 1838 as the third rural cemetery in America.
  Link   Glasnevin Cemetery
Welcome to Glasnevin Cemetery the largest cemetery in Ireland and the first of its kind.
  Link   Forgotten NY
Take a look at some of the smallest oldest and most unusual cemeteries NYC has to offer.
  Link   Cities of The Dead
Cemeteries of New Orleans
  Link   Cedar Hill Cemetery
Cemetery in Hartford Conneticut established in the late 1800s
  Link   Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Gable Chaplin Power...many stars of the Talkies
  Link   Massachusetts Cemetery Association
The Massachusetts Cemetery Association represents the interests of all cemeterians in Massachusetts.
  Link   Graveyards of Chicago
Historical information and images of Chicago area cemeteries
  Link   CNY Cemetery Photographers
New York Cemetery photography from Ithaca Groton Auburn Syracuse Cortland and Rochester.
  Link   Hope Cemetery
Located in Barre Vermont
  Link   A Tour of The Olde Burying Yard
Olde Burying Yard behind the First Church in Longmeadow
  Link   Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts
The Jewish Cemetery Association is launching two ambitious projects: to restore a charming and historic cemetery and chapel in East Boston and the implementation of new educational initiatives to deepen the understanding and significance of