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Cemetery Records - Alberta
Most cemetery records are maintained at the local level (church, town, municipal or city hall).
Online
- CanadaGenWeb’s Cemetery project – Alberta
- Find a Grave
- Alberta Ancestors: Alberta Ancestors provides both a searchable, interactive, cemeteries map/directory --as well as a searchable name database for burials/memorials that also provides the cemetery name
- Canadian Headstones project
- Alberta Cemetery Records hosted by Canadian Genealogy Resource
- Canadian Genealogy: Select your province of interest from this page
The Family History department has a small collection of books containing transcriptions from cemetery markers in Alberta. Search for items using the keyword “Alberta Cemeteries”. An example:
Trace, Mary Kearns. Monumental Inscriptions of Union Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta. Library call number: 929.5097123 MON 1986