West Virginia Cemetery Records

To begin, add a cemetery record or view a list of locations and resources for West Virginia cemetery records.

West Virginia is a rugged, blue collar state that is filled with stunningly beautiful scenery and wonderful people. The cost of living here is low, which makes it an ideal place for retirees. If you are searching for West Virginia cemetery records, they shouldn't be that difficult to find.

The easiest thing you can do is to place your order online and have them shipped directly to your front door. You can also look to place your order yourself. Contact the burial site and see if they can ship you the records you are looking for yourself, but if you don't have all of the information you need, there are state organizations that you can contact to fill in the blanks. The West Virginia Cemetery & Funeral Association as well as the West Virginia Funeral Directors Association can find names going back decades, and even centuries in some cases. They can also tell you how to complete your order yourself.

If you are looking for local military burial sites, there are two in the state: Grafton National Cemetery and West Virginia National Cemetery. The easiest thing you can do, of course, is to order online and let others take care of all of the work for you.

A part of the US Gen Web project, the West Virginia Tombstone Transcription Project is actually an arm of the national effort by the same name. The overall goal here is to make certain the information that has previously been put on tombstones is archived digitally, and thanks to volunteers across the state, you can often find the name of the deceased as well as a complete transcription of his or her headstone. To retrieve West Virginia burial records, follow the instructions below.

 

Listed below is address and contact information for various West Virginia organizations relevant to cemetery records research. Locations include state veterans cemeteries, cremation societies, funeral directors associations and state cemetery administrations. If we've missed a location feel free to add a cemetery record of your own.