Puerto Rico Cemeteries

Online Resources

 * - index and images
 * BillionGraves Puerto Rico page - photos and GPS locations of grave markers
 * - index and images
 * Find A Grave Puerto Rico Page - photos and GPS locations of grave markers
 * Interment index for Puerto Rico
 * FamilySearch Places

Jewish Cemeteries

 * JewishGen has a database to check for Jewish Cemeteries. For Puerto Rico, look under United States, then Puerto Rico. There are 2 cemeteries with 127 burials.
 * Jewish Community Center of Puerto Rico They will help with any research.

Military Cemeteries

 * Department of Veterans Affairs Cemeteries - Puerto Rico
 * Atlantic Garden Veterans Cemetery
 * Interment index for Puerto Rico There is a downloadable file of 299 pages of records of U.S. Veterans Buried in Puerto Rico.

Individual Cemeteries

 * Cementerio Católico San Vicente de Paul
 * Cementerio Municipal de Mayagüez
 * Panteón Nacional Román Baldorioty de Castro
 * Puerto Rico National Cemetery
 * Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery
 * Old Urban Cemetery
 * Cementerio Civil de Ponce
 * Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center
 * Catedral Metropolitana Basílica de San Juan Bautista (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
 * Sabana Grande Masonic Cemetery

Additional Resources at the Family History Library
To find cemetery records for Puerto Rico in the FamilySearch Catalog follow these steps:


 * 1) Go to the FamilySearch Catalog
 * 2) Enter: Puerto Rico in the Place box
 * 3) Click on: Search
 * 4) Click on: Places within American Samoa
 * 5) Click on: Cemeteries

If you don't find an entry for Cemeteries, you may need to go to a smaller jurisdiction by using Places within... a second time.

Additional Resources

 * Source Wikipedia. Religion in puerto rico : cemeteries in puerto rico, christianity in puerto rico, puerto rican [Place of publication not identified] : University-Press Org, 2013. Available on WorldCat
 * Teresita Santini; Gabriel Suau. Between the sky and the sea : guide to the Santa María Magdalena de Pazzi Cemetery in San Juan, Puerto Rico [San Juan, Puerto Rico] : Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico, Para la naturaleza : Municipality of San Juan, Bogotá, Colombia : Grupo OP Gráficas, S.A. ; [2014?] [date of printing not found] Available on WorldCat