Find a Grave
A searchable community index of graves, cemeteries, and memorials.
Find a Grave is a large, community-built database of cemetery records and online memorials, with more than 265 million memorial pages. Users can search by name, life dates, location, cemetery, family relationships, plot details, and other filters, then contribute photos, notes, and new memorial entries.
Why it stands out
- Very large cemetery-focused collection with decades of community contributions dating back to 1995.
- Combines searchable burial records with user-added photos, notes, GPS status, and memorial pages.
- Search filters are unusually specific for cemetery research, including plot info, contributor ID, memorial type, and family relationships.
- Covers both everyday people and notable public figures rather than limiting the database to famous graves.
Good to know
- Record quality and completeness can vary because memorials and photos are created by the community.
- The site requires JavaScript to work properly.
- Contributing or managing memorial activity requires signing in or registering.
- The free experience includes ads, with an ad-free option promoted separately.
Under the radar: When searching within a specific cemetery, use the ? and * wildcards in name fields—for example, “Sorens?n” or “Wil*”—to catch spelling variations that an exact search may miss.
Photos
Family historians and genealogists can locate burial details, grave photos, and relatives’ memorial records when building a family history. Search for an ancestor using partial names, approximate birth or death years, and cemetery location. Browse cemeteries by region to identify people buried in a specific place. Add a memorial, upload a headstone photo, or leave a virtual flower or note for a loved one. Explore famous graves, recently added memorials, and veteran or special memorial categories.
Advanced memorial search by names, dates, keywords, cemetery, plot, IDs, contributor, and family-member names. Cemetery browsing by region and location, filters for grave photos/GPS/plot information, famous and newly added grave sections, community photo uploads, memorial creation, transcription tools, and multilingual site options.
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