MySource:Donjgen/Utah State Historical Burial Database

The searchable Burials <http://utstcess.dced.state.ut.us/NEWBURIALS/SilverStream/Pages/pgStandardSearch.html> and Cemeteries <http://utstcess.dced.state.ut.us/NEWBURIALS/SilverStream/Pages/pgCemeterySearch.html> databases are a product of the Utah Cemetery Inventory Project which includes names and other genealogical information about people who are buried in Utah cemeteries. The names in the database come principally from cemeteries receiving grants <../Services/CemeteryGrant.pdf> to help them computerize their data. These participating cemeteries do not conduct grave marker surveys. Instead, they use the grant funds to convert sexton records to electronic databases and geographic information systems. These systems help them manage their cemeteries. They send the data they gather to the Utah State Historical Society for inclusion in this database. Another source is volunteers (local genealogists and cemetery buffs) who have recorded grave marker information for small, inactive and abandoned cemeteries and passed it along to us. A third source is cemeteries that have already entered their records into a digital format and donate it to the project.