Cemeteries & Funeral Homes » Societies & Groups

Save Our Cemeteries, Inc.

Dedicated to preserving, protecting and promoting the historic cemeteries of New Orleans. Activities of the organization include cemetery cleanups, grounds maintenance, cemetery security, community outreach, educational programs and tomb restoration. Proceeds from cemetery tours conducted by volunteer licensed tour guides and memberships in Save Our Cemeteries are dedicated to supporting these projects & more.

Save Texas Cemeteries, Inc.

Provides information on membership, activities, Cemetery 911, and a system for cataloging cemeteries in Texas.

Saving Graves - Cemetery Preservation Alliance

Formed to educate and assist in the worldwide networking of people interested in protecting, restoring and preserving our historic cemeteries.

Saving Southern Cemeteries

Organization dedicated to encouraging transcriptions, preserving cemeteries in the South, primarily Georgia, and to educating the public on the dangers facing cemeteries.

South Carolina Funeral Directors Association

State Association for the Preservation of Iowa Cemeteries

Provides a list of Iowa funeral homes and materials on preserving monuments - including a video for sale.

Tennessee Funeral Directors Association

Texas Funeral Directors Association

Texas Historical Commission - Historic Texas Cemetery Program

Describes the work of the Texas Historical Commission in preserving historical cemeteries. Provides information on how to get a cemetery designated as an Official Historic Texas Cemetery.

The Association of Graveyard Rabbits

An association dedicated to the academic promotion of the historical importance of cemeteries, grave markers, and the family history to be learned from a study of burial customs, burying grounds, and tombstones; and the social promotion of the study of cemeteries, the preservation of cemeteries, and the transcription of genealogical/historical information written in cemeteries.

The Center For Thanatology Research & Education, Inc.

Non-profit small press, library, museum, resource center & mail order bookseller that handles books, media & periodicals on one major subject: the study of mortality - thanatology.

The Cremation Society of Great Britain

The Friends of Freedmen's Cemetery

History and preservation of an 1864-1869 cemetery for former slaves and their children in Alexandria, Virginia. Contains burial records of African Americans 1863-1869 as well as background and personal data on the freed people and Alexandria's black residents, in general.

The Friends of the Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery Park

Seattle, Washington.

The Moray Burial Ground Research Group

Scotland. Group which surveys every burial ground in Moray, which also includes part of the old county of Banff. Some 140 cemeteries, both public and private to be studied.

The Old Cemeteries Society - Victoria Tombstone Tales of Ross Bay Cemetery

Victoria's Ross Bay Cemetery opened in 1873 to serve the burial needs of the growing city of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Overlooking Ross Bay, it is 11 hectares in size (27.5 acres) and has almost 28,000 interments. Not just a burial ground, it serves as a park and restful get-away for many people. Come inside and take a virtual tour, meet some of the more famous residents, learn about issues that concern twentieth-century cemeteries or just enjoy some of the stories of this great cemetery.

The Slovak Heritage and Cultural Society of British Columbia

The Vermont Old Cemetery Association

Utah Funeral Directors

Vermont Funeral Directors Association