Cemetery records often include birth, marriage, and death information. They sometimes provide clues about military service, religion, or membership in an organization such as a lodge. These records are especially helpful for identifying children who died young or women who were not recorded in family or government documents.

The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) collection contains tombstone inscriptions from many counties. This collection is described in the “Genealogy” section of this outline.

The records of some local cemeteries have been abstracted, and the inscriptions have been published in:

Cemetery Records of Indiana. 6 vols. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1954–1964. (FHL book 977.2 V39c; film 873781; computer number 239535.) Several of these volumes include cemetery inscriptions from Marion County, but also include the cemeteries of several other counties.

The Indiana State Library has a file that is an alphabetical list of cemeteries in the state. The list is also found on the Indiana State Library web site. The file cards give the county and township where the cemetery is situated and the location of copied inscriptions.

Indiana State Library. Genealogy Division. Cemetery Locator File. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1980. (FHL films 1292061–63 and 1292094; computer number 50663). The cards are in alphabetical order by cemetery, with abandoned or unnamed cemeteries listed at the end.

For another list of the names and addresses of Indiana cemeteries, see:

Carty, Mickey Dimon. Searching in Indiana: A Reference Guide to Public and Private Records. Costa Mesa, Calif.: ISC Pub., 1985. (FHL book 977.2 D23c; computer number 396385.) This book lists each county’s cemeteries and their locations.

The Indiana State Archives, Commission on Public Records, also has a “Veterans Grave Registration File.” This is a partial index to graves of veterans buried in Indiana who served from the Revolutionary War through World War I. It covers 51 of the 92 counties and is only available on microfilms at the Indiana State Archives. These microfilms do not circulate.

Several sources with information on burials of Revolutionary War veterans are listed in the U.S. Military Records Research Outline (34118).

Cemetery records are listed in the Locality Search of the Family History Library Catalog under:

INDIANA- CEMETERIESINDIANA, [COUNTY]- CEMETERIESINDIANA, [COUNTY], [TOWN]- CEMETERIES

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