Texas Cemeteries

United States   Texas    Cemeteries


 * Two important collections of cemetery records are:

Published Transcriptions

 * - Brinley, Lorine. Cemetery Records: A Texas and Louisiana Collection. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society, 1959. and  This contains card indexes.Transcripts for many cemetery are on films 206289-303.


 * -Cemetery Records of Texas. Six Volumes. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society, 1956-63. and


 * Lists of the cemeteries in each county that are included in the above collections are in Sharry Crofford-Gould, Texas Cemetery Inscriptions: A Source Index. San Antonio, Texas: Limited Editions, 1977.


 * Some of the earliest burials in Texas are recorded in Mrs. Malcolm B. Biggerstaff, Four Thousand Tombstone Inscriptions from Texas, 1745-1870: Along the Old San Antonio Road and the Trail of Austin's Colonists. Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1952.


 * The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) collection also contains tombstone inscriptions from many Texas cemeteries. This collection is described in the "Genealogy" article in this Wiki.

Online
The following websites have cemetery listings for Texas State. Sites may be incomplete. They may not list all cemeteries in a county and may not include all burials in a cemetery.


 * Findagrave.com Search for names Enter at least a last name then click Search. Can narrow by first names or dates.


 * This site frequently has tombstone images
 * List of cemeteries statewide for cemeteries in their database
 * You may need to narrow by county
 * Go to Find A Grave Home page, click Search for a cemetery, select the state (Texas ), then select from the county list, and press Search.
 * Click on the number below Interments for a cemetery to access names. Click Records arrow to scroll through to the end.


 * Web: Texas, Find A Grave Index, 1761-2012 at Ancestry.com ($) State.


 * Interment.net Cemetery Transcriptions


 * Tea for 2 Headstone photos


 * Cemeteries-of-Texas Transcriptions and cemetery photos.


 * HistoricTexasCemeteries.com Maps, transcriptions, information and more, sorted by county


 * US Gen Web Archives


 * Texas Historic Cemeteries Cemetery information from the Texas Historical Commission.


 * Texas Cemetery Records (at Texas Genealogy), Cemetery inscriptions online organized by county and city


 * Cemeteries of The Diocese of Victoria and name search of many of the cemeteries (scroll to bottom of page)

A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

Texas, Bexar, San Antonio, Cemetery Records ( FamilySearch Historical Records)