The Sheffield General Cemetery website is a hive of information for historians and genealogists.

Located in Sharrow in the city of Sheffield, UK. The Sheffield General Cemetery is also a member of the Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe

Find information about the history of the Cemetery, the people buried there and the work of the Sheffield General Cemetery Trust.

There is a timeline exploring key events linked to the Cemetery and a database of burial records, images and historical documents. You can buy our publications and read back copies of “Undertakings” newsletters which are free to download. The online search facility is useful if you are looking for a particular person or subject area.

Burial Records

There are 87,000 buried in the General Cemetery, and the General Cemetery Company kept records of every burial. They recorded the name of the person being buried, their death and burial dates, their age, their place of residence, and their status/occupation.

CDs of records from different times periods, are available through the Sheffield Family History Society

Family History Research

For a more personal approach to researching your family history, a team of volunteers at the Cemetery office will carry out a burial search for you for a small fee.

Facebook

The Sheffield General Cemetery now has its own Facebook group, so you can keep up to date with news and projects.

More information

Sheffield General Cemetery website

ASCE – Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe

Over 80,000 records from the Howff graveyard index is available to search online.

Old, worn grave monuments are a wealth of information

A culmination of several years work by volunteers from both the Friends of Dundee City Archives and the Tay Valley Family History Society.

The records of The Howff, Dundee’s City Cemetery, which are held in the City Archives, were transcribed first on to a card index and then on to a computer datafile. The card index is now held in the Family History Centre.

Computer files are provided in HTML in order to make the data available more widely. The 80,000 records are arranged by initial letter of the person’s family name, which has limitations but provides quicker access than through using a single file.  These can be searched from the website front page.

The volunteers must be congratulated not only on their devotion, which brought the task to a conclusion, but on the accuracy which the records demonstrate.

Visit the Friends of Dundee City Archive for more information

The Borders Family History Society aim to help people with their family history primarily in the Border counties (Berwickshire, Peeblesshire, Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire) of Scotland, as well as in adjacent counties of England and Scotland.

There are many small kirk yards in the Scottish Borders

Monumental Inscriptions
Shows all Monumental Inscriptions volumes currently for sale.

Society members get a discount per volume.

Search the Gravestones Index
All published volumes can be searched online.

Each volume contains the inscription on all the (readable) gravestones (tombstones) in the respective burial place at the time of publication, and there is an index to the surnames in the inscriptions at the back.

Most volumes also include a Hearth Tax list, War Memorial inscriptions, a list of kirk ministers, and many have a militia list.

BFHS – Latest publication

Roxburghshire Monumental Inscriptions – No 21: Melrose Abbey
Available as a CD or an A4 format book, each has the same content.
564 gravestones.
Photos of the gravestones and their inscriptions.
Hearth Tax and Militia Roll.
Gravestone inscriptions in Melrose Abbey and grounds.

As well as the recorded volumes of tombstone inscriptions, the society also have useful indexes for Magazine Articles, Poor Law Records, Borders Family Trees.

Visit the Borders Family History Society Website

National Archive of Scotland (NAS)- The NAS holds historical records created by businesses, landed estates, families, churches and other corporate bodies. Every year tens of thousands of people from all over the world use the NAS’s services to carry out research, seek advice on record keeping, and enhance the learning and teaching of history.

The Orkney Family History Society have ongoing projects to catalogue all of the graveyards of mainland Orkney and the surrounding islands.

Bound copies

Some of these sites have been completed and are now available in booklet form or members can view the details on the website.

Cataloging has been rigorous and you will find full inscriptions detailed for each entry.

For those who view the entries on line, there is an added advantage that a global search of all Orkney graveyards can be done by name.

A fantastic tool for the family historian and a real credit to the hard and diligent work of the society and it’s members.

The society have also published census details from 1841 to 1901.

Visit Orkney Family History Society

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