Ohio, Columbus, Union Cemetery, Burial Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
This collection contains index and images of burial records including card index to plot ownership, card index to burials, record of burial plots, orders for interments and orders for burials, etc.
 * Union Cemetery. Burial records, ca. 1878-1980

What Can These Records Tell Me?
These records may contain this information:
 * The name of the deceased
 * Age
 * Race
 * Burial Date
 * Location of burial plot
 * The Undertaker

How Do I Search This Collection?
Before searching this collection, it is helpful to know:
 * The name of your ancestor
 * Approximate death date

How Do I Analyze the Results?
Compare each result from your search with what you know to determine if there is a match. This may require viewing multiple records or images. Keep track of your research in a research log.

What Do I Do Next?
Indexes and transcriptions may not include all the data found in the original records. Look at the actual image of the record, if you can, to verify the information and to find additional information.

I Found the Person I Was Looking For, What Now?

 * Add any new information to your records
 * Use the age or estimated birth date to determine an approximate birth date to find church records and vital records such as birth, baptism, and marriage records.
 * Use the information found in the record to find additional family members in censuses.
 * Church Records were kept years before counties began keeping records. They are a good source for finding ancestors before 1900.

I Can’t Find the Person I’m Looking For, What Now?
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Research Helps
The following articles will help you in your research for your family in the state of Ohio.
 * Cemeteries
 * Sexton Records
 * Ohio Guided Research
 * Ohio Record Finder
 * Ohio Research Tips and Strategies
 * Step-by-Step Research, 1880 to Present

Other FamilySearch Collections
These collections may have additional materials to help you with your research.

FamilySearch Catalog

 * Union Cemetery Burial records, ca. 1878-1980
 * Tifereth Israel Congregation. Cemetery record book, 1906-1974
 * Greenlawn Cemetery records

FamilySearch Digital Library

 * William Alexander Taylor, Centennial history of Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio 2 volumes. Chicago, Illinois : S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1909
 * Ohio Historical Records Survey Project Service Division, Work Projects Administration, Inventory of the county archives of Ohio, no. 25, Franklin County (Columbus) Columbus, Ohio : Ohio Historical Records Survey Project, 1942

Citing This Collection
Citations help you keep track of places you have searched and sources you have found. Identifying your sources helps others find the records you used.