District of Columbia, Glenwood Cemetery Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

United States District of Columbia

What is in the Collection?
This collection includes images of cemetery records from 1854-2013 from the Glenwood Cemetery, a historic cemetery located on Lincoln Road NE in Washington, D.C.

What Can These Records Tell Me?
These records usually contain the following:

Card Index
 * Name of deceased
 * Date interred
 * Name of undertaker
 * Location of grave
 * Cause of death
 * Book, page and jacket number of burial record
 * Death date
 * Birth date
 * Residence
 * Age
 * Permit and grave details
 * Name of informant

Plat Book
 * Date of interment
 * Name of the deceased
 * Age
 * Number of site
 * Owner's name

Register of Interments
 * Name of the deceased
 * Age
 * Cause of death
 * Death date and place
 * Date of burial
 * Plot location and vault number
 * Owner's name
 * Nationality
 * Date of birth
 * Name of undertaker

Deed Register
 * Date of deed
 * Deed and Lot numbers
 * To whom given
 * Location of plot
 * Price

How Do I Search the Collection?
To begin your search you will need to know the following:


 * The person’s name
 * The approximate burial or death date

View the Images
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I Found Who I was Looking for, What Now?

 * Copy the citation below, in case you need to find this record again later.
 * Use the information found in the record to locate the death record.
 * Family members of those found in the records who died after the records were written may also be interred in this cemetery. Glenwood Cemetery maintains a website with additional information on those later burials.
 * Use the age or estimated birth date to determine an approximate birth date to find other church and vital records such as birth, baptism, and marriage records.
 * Use the information found in the record to find land, probate and immigration records.
 * Use the information found in the record to find additional family members in censuses.
 * Repeat this process with additional family members found, to find more generations of the family.
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