It is sometimes very difficult to place an ancestor or cousin in a specific place even when death information has been located from a vital statistics source. If the government source is an index, the locality given is often a registration district that may take in a very large area. Locating a person’s grave can be a key start in locating where they lived and the parish in which records may be found.
Volunteers and Cemeteries
Interment.net is, amazingly, a free site with a great deal of data and it's growing all the time. In essence it is a communal "library" where concerned people, often genealogical societies, can deposit their cemetery records so that others can share in the information. Interment’s home page (Fig. 1) is a very simple and clean presentation. The main search box (Fig. 2) which will examine the whole collection is right there while down below is the browsing menu. (Fig. 3 ) A quick look through countries and sites available gives a sense of just how large the collection is becoming; there are a significant number of records here. Keep in mind however that this is by no means a complete listing of all graves everywhere, just of the cemeteries where volunteers have spent countless hours recording key family history information.