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A Very Grave Matter

Pictorial study of colonial cemeteries in the Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts seacoast region and their historical links to the area. Includes photos & transcriptions.

Ancestry.com - Search Birth, Marriage & Death Records

Including baptisms, christenings, divorces, burials, cemeteries and obituaries. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

Ancestry.com - U.S., Military Burial Registers, 1768-1921 $

Original source: Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations, 1768-1921. Microfilm Publication M2014, 1 roll; ARC ID: 4478153. Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, Record Group 92; National Archives in Washington, D.C. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Archives.com - Search For Massachusetts Cemetery Records $

Use Archives.com with a FREE 7-day membership and search over 2.1 billion records. Pay-for-use after the seven day free trial.

BillionGraves - Massachusetts 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.

Chapman, Cole & Gleason Funeral Home

Bridgewater, East Bridgewater, Falmouth, Marstons Mills, Martha's Vineyard, Mashpee, Wareham, West Falmouth, Massachusetts.

FamilySearch - Grave locations of Revolutionary soldiers and sailors of Maine and Massachusetts ^FREE

Collection of index card listing the burial place of Revolutionary veterans who are buried in Maine or Massachusetts. Birth, death, and burial information on each individual as well as which unit they served is included on each card. Supplemental information is found on some cards, like spouse and date and place of marriage. Several of these individuals were buried in other states and their burial places reported by DAR members in these states.

Farber Gravestone Collection

Over 13,500 images documenting the sculpture on more than 9,000 gravestones, most of which were made prior to 1800. The data accompanying the photographs include the name and death date of the deceased, the location of the stone, and information concerning the stone material, the iconography, the inscription, and (when known) the carver. The focus of the collection are Massachusetts & Connecticut grave markers.

Find a Grave - Browse by State: Massachusetts

Find a Grave - Browse Cemeteries by US County - Massachusetts

Information for over 300,000 cemeteries in over 170 different countries. Find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials, add 'virtual flowers' and a note to a loved one's grave. You can also try the Find A Grave Search Form.

FSN Funeral Homes - Massachusetts

FuneralHomes.com - Massachusetts Funeral Homes

Geneanet - Cemeteries and Memorials - Massachusetts

Graveyards & Gravestones

Currently over 2300 gravestone photographs with inscription transcriptions from over 106 cemeteries in France and several US states: Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia.

I Dream of Genealogy - Massachusetts Cemeteries

iMortuary.com - Cemetery Directory - Massachusetts Cemeteries

iMortuary.com - Funeral Home Directory - Massachusetts Funeral Homes

Interment.net: Massachusetts Cemeteries

Online archive of cemetery transcriptions, with dates and names of people interred in local cemeteries. Also links to related materials online.

Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts ^FREE

Includes a database with more than 50,000 Jewish names under "Genealogy/Ancestry Search."

Just An Untamed Taphophile - Crawling NH, MA, and beyond

This blog is a member of the Association of Graveyard Rabbits.