My good friend, Kory Meyerink, spoke at the Conference on Computerized Family History and Genealogy held at Brigham Young University this last weekend. One of his lectures dealt with locating cemetery information online.
Kory shared information about websites of special interest while pointing out challenges and pitfalls along the way. Sharon Haddock wrote an article for The Mormon Times, highlighting some of Kory’s comments, and adding links to websites that he recommended. Following is a teaser…
…the state of Utah shines when it comes to cemetery information retrieval.
“Utah has created a burial site without peer,” Meyerink said. “Seventy percent of the people buried in Utah are in the state’s database.” (www.history.utah.gov/apps/burials)
Burial records often contain more than a death date and name of the deceased but often have the place of birth and the parent’s names too.