Myanmar Cemeteries

Cemetery, funeral and cremation records
Research use: Death information in other records is often meager. Used to identify surviving children in church records, and other family relationships. Chinese and other non-Christian cemeteries are particularly valuable due to a dearth of other records.

Record type: Lists of gravestone burial records, exhumations, cremations, sextons records, obituaries, funeral memorials.

Time Period: 1550-present.

Content: Name, age, death and burial date and place, birth date and place, sometimes relatives including immediate family and previous generations.

Location: Municipal archives, church archives, libraries, Chinese community associations, cemetery offices.

Population coverage: 10%.

Reliability: Good.

British Cemeteries
The Family History Library has a few books on grave sites of British soldiers in various areas of South East Asia, including Myanmar (Burma). These can be located by going to a Place search in the catalog under:

MYANMAR - CEMETERIES