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BillionGraves - United Kingdom Cemeteries

BillionGraves provides an app for smartphones so that users can take photos of gravestones at any cemetery worldwide and upload the photos to the BillionGraves web site. Users can then transcribe the gravestone information from the photos online. Use of the site is free. You can either earn or purchase extra features such as the "Record Watch" that will alert you when a specific search term of yours comes online. Earn some of these features through participation in the BillionGraves project by uploading and transcribing photos.

British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia

Society for the preservation of cemeteries & recording of monumental inscriptions for European burials in South Asia.

British Cemetery, Argostoli, Kefalonia, Greece. Virtual Guide.

Transcribed and photographed military gravestones / tombstones.

Burial and Death Records in the UK

An introduction to burial and death records.

Cemetery Scribes

Transcriptions and photos from Jewish Cemeteries in the UK, over 1,000 entries, historical narratives and mini family trees and much more.

CEMSEARCH

United Kingdom. An ongoing searchable database of United Kingdom Northwest cemeteries including Blackburn, Burnley, Loveclough, Nelson, Preston, Whitworth.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Details of 1.7 million members of UK and Commonwealth forces who died in the 1st and 2nd World Wars and other wars, and 60,000 civilian casualties of WWII. Gives details of grave site, date of death, age, usually parents/widow's address.

Deceased Online $

A central database for UK burials and cremations. Search registers by Country, Region, County, Burial Authority or Crematorium free of charge. Register as a user and you will be able to purchase credits online, which you can spend to gain access to computerised cremation and burial records; digital scans of cremation and burial registers; digital scans of books of remembrance; photographs of graves and memorials; cemetery maps showing grave locations; other occupants in the same grave.

Far From Home - A study of the WW1 Canadian War Graves in the United Kingdom (Wayback Machine)

Profiling the soldiers and photographing graves of all the 3,885 WW1 Canadians who served in Canadian regiments and are buried across Britain, including Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Locations and descriptions of cemeteries, churches, towns and cities are also highlighted.

Funeral Services UK

Directory of Funeral Directors and Monumental Masons throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Geneanet - Cemeteries and Memorials - United Kingdom

These photos are freely accessible, as is all data shared by Geneanet members. Our “Save Our Graves” project simplifies the uploading and indexing of gravesite photos, through a smartphone/tablet app (iOS and Android) and an online indexing tool. The goal is simple: preserve the memory of the departed by indexing their names with gravesite photos.

George Cross Database

The George Cross was instituted in September 1940 to recognise civilian heroism. King George VI created the award for the men and women of the Commonwealth whose courage could not be marked by any other honour.

Historic Graves

A community based heritage project which digitally records and publishes historic graveyard surveys and stories. From the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Memorial Inscriptions and Burial Records :: World Burial Index

Searchable database of memorial inscriptions largely from the UK, but with contributions from across the world. Free search by surname.

Remembering You Grave Tending

Grave Tending and Grave research service based in the UK. Aimed at those with ancestors in the UK who are looking for the final resting place of a loved one with a view for the grave being tended or a photograph of the memorial.

Respect Woodland Green Burial Parks - The Home of Natural Burials

Interments of loved ones takes place in bio-degradable coffins, shrouds, or even a favourite blanket and cremated remains are interred. Grave spaces are marked by the planting of a tree or a memorial fashioned from a natural product, i.e. sustainably harvested wood, small local stone laid flat to the ground and in some cases the memorial may be a bird, bat or owl box, or hedgehog hide etc. The parks are located in the United Kingdom.

The Graveyard Detective

A look at the stories behind the stones, symbolism, funerary architecture and news about cemeteries and graveyards from around the world.

The War Graves Photographic Project

Families able to get copies of war grave photographs from cemeteries all around the world. Site working in association with The Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Tombstones & Monumental Inscriptions

The aim of this site is to provide a photographic record of the various churches, churchyards, graveyards and cemeteries for the benefit of those genealogists who live some distance away.