Genealogy,or tracing one’s ancestors is probably becoming more popular by the day.
Genealogy, researching your family’s history has grown in popularity for several reasons, not the least of which is a penchant for people, in this most rushed day and age, to want to know where they come from and what they owe certain traits to. In some cases it is also to find other members of their family who are still living, or to know where they might be located.

Almost everyone wants to know, to some degree, what part they play in their family tree and to figure that out takes some genealogy research and ancestor tracing.

For many, finding the place of burial will be an important step in the overall genealogy research and will lead you to more ancestors, and perhaps in directions you might not have gone without this knowledge. It is usual that more than one ancestor will be buried in the same cemetery so you may even uncover, or get a clue to ancestors you didn’t know existed.

Some genealogists, both amateur and professional, begin their genealogy research based upon learning of a burial site perhaps that holds an ancestor they had never heard of, stumbling upon it by mistake.
Others go actively seeking those grave sites, in an effort to make the person they’ve already researched a bit more real to them.

Finding the grave site of an ancestor quite often gives you a certain sense of belonging to that person, a very real connection with a past that you can’t visit or get “your head wrapped around” in any other way.

Finding those grave sites is becoming easier thanks to the advent of so many records becoming public domain and so many more being placed on the internet.
Many of us do not have the wherewithal to travel great distances to search out an ancestors grave site in person, but we can, with the right information, sometimes only with a name, peruse online cemetery records and find that one of our ancestors we’ve been seeking is in fact buried there.

Many cemetery records are now online, and while not all of them are, chances are good that at least some of those you are interested in are going to be listed on the internet registries that house those records.

There are currently many cemetery sites on the internet, although there is not as of this writing, that I could find, one that displays all of the fifty states cemeteries and those overseas in one venue.
Some of the most helpful that I have found are:

The Genealogy Free Pages housing cemetery lists from many states.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Gen Research Cemetery Site

Arlington National Cemetery

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