Washington Cemetery and Graveyard Records

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The Washington State Genealogical Society has published statewide inventories of cemeteries in Washington. Several local genealogical societies have published information on tombstones from graveyards in their areas. The USGenWeb has a growing collection of Washington graveyard inscriptions on its website under “Tombstone Transcription Project.”

Washington Cemetery records and gravestone inscriptions are a rich source of information for family historians. Cemetery and other sources of information associated with death include:

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  • Biographical works
  • Burial permits
  • Church burial registers
  • Cemetery records (often several different kinds are kept)
  • Cemetery indexes (often compiled by genealogical societies)
  • Cemetery sextons’ records
  • Cemetery deed and plot registers
  • Death certificates
  • Death indexes
  • Family bibles
  • Family burial plots
  • Funeral director’s records
  • Grave opening orders
  • Gravestone (monument) inscriptions
  • Military records
  • Monuments and memorials
  • Necrologies
  • Newspaper death notices
  • Obituaries
  • Probate records
  • Published death records
  • Religious records
  • Transcriptions of cemetery inscriptions
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