Texas Cemeteries

United States   Texas    Cemeteries

Online
The following have significant cemetery listings for Texas State:


 * Findagrave.com Search for names at Find A Grave. Enter at least a last name then click Search. Can narrow by first names or dates.
 * This site frequently has tombstone images.
 * List of cemeteries in their database.
 * 1) Select the state, 2) pick a county, and 3) click Search. (There are too many cemeteries for a statewide list.)
 * Tip: To switch to a different county, click Cemetery Lookup under Actions at the left.
 * When you have a list, click on the number below Interments for a cemetery to access names. Click Records arrow to scroll through to the end.


 * Web: Texas, Find A Grave Index, 1761-2012 at Ancestry.com (Free /$)


 * Interment.net Cemetery Transcriptions


 * Tea for 2 Headstone photos


 * Cemeteries-of-Texas Transcriptions and cemetery photos.


 * HistoricTexasCemeteries.com Maps, transcriptions, information and more, sorted by county


 * US Gen Web Archives


 * Texas Historic Cemeteries Cemetery information from the Texas Historical Commission.


 * Texas Cemetery Records (at Texas Genealogy), Cemetery inscriptions online organized by county and city


 * Cemeteries of The Diocese of Victoria and name search of many of the cemeteries (scroll to bottom of page)

A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

Texas, Bexar, San Antonio, Cemetery Records ( FamilySearch Historical Records)

Published Transcriptions

 * - Brinley, Lorine. Cemetery Records: A Texas and Louisiana Collection. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society, 1959. and  This contains card indexes.Transcripts for many cemetery are on films 206289-303.


 * -Cemetery Records of Texas. Six Volumes. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society, 1956-63. and


 * Lists of the cemeteries in each county that are included in the above collections are in Sharry Crofford-Gould, Texas Cemetery Inscriptions: A Source Index. San Antonio, Texas: Limited Editions, 1977.


 * Some of the earliest burials in Texas are recorded in Mrs. Malcolm B. Biggerstaff, Four Thousand Tombstone Inscriptions from Texas, 1745-1870: Along the Old San Antonio Road and the Trail of Austin's Colonists. Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1952.


 * The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) collection also contains tombstone inscriptions from many Texas cemeteries. This collection is described in the "Genealogy" article in this Wiki.