Find a Grave
This page in a nutshell: Online database of cemetery records |
File:Find a Grave logo.svg | |
Type of site | Online database |
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Available in | English French German Spanish Italian Dutch Portuguese Swedish |
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Headquarters | Lehi, Utah, U.S. |
Owners | Ancestry.com (2013–present) |
Founder(s) | Jim Tipton |
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Commercial | Yes |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | 1998 |
Current status | Active |
Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of human and pet cemetery records. It is owned by Ancestry.com. Its stated mission is "to help people from all over the world work together to find, record and present final disposition information as a virtual cemetery experience." Volunteers can create memorials, upload photos of grave markers or deceased persons, transcribe photos of headstones, and more. As of 2024[update], the site claimed more than 250 million memorials.[1]
- ↑ "Find a Grave". Ancestry.com. https://www.findagrave.com/.
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