Scotland Cemeteries

Online Resources

 * - index and images
 * FindAGrave Scotland Page - photos and GPS locations of grave markers
 * SAFHS The Scottish Association of Family History Societies' website includes an inventory of over 3500 known burial grounds in Scotland and whether there are published or unpublished monumental inscriptions available.
 * Find A Grave, Scotland, 1500 - 2000 Find A Grave Scotland is based in Scotland. With over 3000 cemeteries and 32 councils in Scotland, the search is daunting. They have a database to help.
 * FindMyPast Scotland Billion Graves Cemetery Index($)
 * Scotland Monumental Inscriptions Index ($)
 * Ancestry($) England & Scotland, Select Cemetery Registers, 1800-2016
 * Ancestry($) Global, Gravestone Photograph Index, 1265-2014
 * Ancestry($) UK, Burial and Cremation Index, 1576-2014
 * Anestry($) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
 * Scottish Monumental Inscriptions
 * Highland Memorial Inscriptions
 * Monumental Inscriptions
 * NRScotland gov Useful Websites for tombstones.
 * NRScotland gov Old Parish Registers – Deaths and Burials
 * Interment Scotland records
 * Glasgow Family History Burial Lair and Cremation Registers

Jewish Cemeteries

 * JewishGen has an inventory you can check. Click on Scotland.
 * ScottishJewishCemeteries
 * SJAC The Scottish Jewish Archive Centre
 * IAJGS 10 cemeteries in Glasgow
 * Atlas Obscura Sciennes Jewish Burial Ground, Edinburgh, Scotland. This tiny weathered plot is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Scotland.

Military Cemeteries

 * Wikipedia Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial is the only American Military Cemetery of World War I in the British Isles.
 * CWGC Commonwealth War Graves Commission
 * Britishwargraves British War Graves, War Graves in Scotland

Additional Resources at the Family History Library

 * SCOTLAND - CEMETERIES

To find cemetery records for Scotland in the FamilySearch Catalog follow these steps:


 * 1) Go to the FamilySearch Catalog
 * 2) Enter: Scotland in the Place box
 * 3) Click on: Search
 * 4) Click on: Cemeteries

To search for cemeteries at the town level, follow directions below.


 * 1) Go to the FamilySearch Catalog
 * 2) Enter: Scotland in the Place box
 * 3) Click on: Search
 * 4) Click on: Cemeteries
 * 5) Click on: Places within Sweden
 * 6) Click on the town you want to search
 * 7) Click on: Cemeteries

Additional Resources

 * Worldcat.org- Do a search for Scotland Cemetery.