New Jersey Cemeteries

Indexes

 * County File of Miscellaneous New Jersey Information. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971. (Family History Library .) This is a card index to tombstone inscriptions and church records at Rutgers University. It is arranged alphabetically by county and name of cemetery.
 * Source Index of New Jersey Families. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971. (Family History Library .) This is primarily a surname card index at Rutgers University to families buried in New Jersey cemeteries.
 * Index to Monumental Inscriptions. This is an index to 20 volumes of tombstone inscriptions found at the New Jersey Historical Society (but not at the Family History Library).

The Family History Library also has microfilm copies of card indexes to the large metropolitan Roman Catholic cemeteries of Mount Olivet Cemetery in Newark, Holy Sepulchre in East Orange, Holy Cross in North Arlington, Madonna in Fort Lee, and Holy Name in Jersey City.

Cemeteries List

 * Ye Olde Robbins Burial Site, Monmouth County, New Jersey

Records
The "Tombstone Hounds" of the Genealogical Society of New Jersey have transcribed the tombstone inscriptions at over 700 cemeteries. This collection, at Rutgers University, is accessed by the card indexes mentioned above.

The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) collection contains tombstone inscriptions from many New Jersey cemeteries. See New Jersey Genealogy


 * New Jersey Cemetery Inscriptions (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Genealogical Society of Utah, 1976, Family History Library ). A collection of typewritten transcripts from many small West Jersey cemeteries, microfilmed at the Gloucester County Historical Society. Additional volumes of transcripts are available at the Society's library.

Many New Jersey cemetery records have been published in The Genealogical Magazine of New Jerseyand other periodicals mentioned in New Jersey Periodicals

For a county-by-county list of cemetery record transcripts available at the Family History Library, see:

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Family History Library. Index to United States Cemeteries. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1988. (Family History Library .) Film 1206480 includes New Jersey.

The Family History Library Catalog Place Search lists more of these records under:

NEW JERSEY - CEMETERIES

NEW JERSEY, [COUNTY] - CEMETERIES

NEW JERSEY, [COUNTY], [TOWN] - CEMETERIES

Web Sites
http://www.interment.net/us/nj/index.htm

http://www.metrojersey.com/funeral.htm