Washington Cemeteries

United States Washington  Cemeteries  See United States Cemeteries for more detail.

Cemetery records often include birth, marriage, and death information. They sometimes provide clues about military service, religion, or membership in an organization.

Online
The following have significant cemetery listings for Washington State.


 * Findagrave.com home page. Often tombstone images.
 * Searchable transcriptions across all Washington entries. Narrow search by county, if desired.
 * Lists of cemeteries, searchable one at a time. Narrow search by county.


 * I Dream of Genealogy (Free)
 * Lists of cemeteries by county. All are linked to viewable transcriptions.
 * No cemetery search. Searches of sponsored sites available.


 * Washington Cemetery Records (Free) at Washington Genealogy. Easy to navigate.
 * Lists of cemeteries by county.
 * Some links to viewable online transcriptions.


 * USGenWeb Tombstone Project - Washington
 * List of cemeteries in the counties.
 * Transcriptions viewable online for several cemeteries.


 * Washington State Cemetery Association
 * Intending to document every site. Needs volunteers.
 * Database has been transferred to FindAGrave (listed above)


 * Interment.net
 * Lists of cemeteries in the counties. Transcriptions viewable one at a time.
 * No cemetery search. Can search sponsored sites.


 * D'Addezio.com Washington Cemeteries
 * Lists of cemeteries or search by the name of the cemetery. Cannot narrow by county.
 * Links to online transcriptions.


 * BillionGraves.com
 * Searchable at state or county level, images of tombstones.
 * Lists of cemeteries by county, with # of entries in this site.
 * Database not well populated for Washington as of May, 2013.


 * KindredTrails.com Washington Cemeteries
 * Links to other sites, searches of sponsored sites.

Cemetery Records — a valuable resource
Use cemetery records to:


 * Identify children who died young or who were not recorded in birth or death records.
 * Establish family relationships and locate family members.
 * Learn a person's religious affiliations, military service, or social (Masonic, fraternal, or other) organizations the person joined.

Cemetery tombstones, or sexton's records, may give birth and death dates, age at death, name of spouse, names of children, and maiden names. Less often, they contain birth places.


 * Tombstones may have symbols or insignias indicating military service and social or religious affiliations.
 * There are also abbreviations that give clues when deciphered.
 * The Association of Gravestone Studies (AGS) has recommendations on the treatment and care of tombstones when needing to make inscriptions more visible.

Earlier transcriptions may be published separately or in periodicals. They are unlikely to be digitized and online.

Collections

 * The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) collection contains tombstone inscriptions from some Washington cemeteries. This collection is described in the “Genealogy” section. Some tombstone inscriptions are also published in periodicals. See United States Cemeteries for further suggestions on locating cemetery records.


 * A valuable published collection of tombstone inscriptions covering parts of 12 counties is Cemetery Records of Washington, Six Volumes. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society, 1957-60.)

Find transcripts of cemetery records for in the FamilySearch Library Catalog. For counties, simply add a comma to the search box and select the county... or search for "Washington, [county]."

Web Sites

 * DAR.org