Find A Grave

Find A Grave is a commercial website providing free access and input to an online database of cemetery records.

According to the founder, Salt Lake City resident Jim Tipton, the website was developed in 1995 to address the lack of any existing site that catered to his hobby of visiting the graves of celebrities. After some time, an online forum was created on the site. As of July 8, 2012 the site stated that it hosts over 83 million records. By the end of January 2015, it had 121 Million records.

The website contains listings of cemeteries and graves from all around the world. American cemeteries are organized by state and county, and many cemetery records contain Google Maps (with GPS coordinates supplied by contributors) and photographs of the cemeteries. Individual grave records contain some or all of the following data fields: dates and places of birth and death, biographical information, cemetery and plot information, photographs (grave marker, the individual, etc.), and contributor information.

For more information, refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find_A_Grave