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 Gravestone Photographic Research Project is a free genealogy resource that contains an index of the names and relationships that appear on grave monuments. This information is of special interest to anyone reseaching their family history as information on tombstones is rarely listed and it is often hard to find a grave.

Gravestone research project

The database currently holds information from Canada, Cyprus, Engald, Wales, Scotland and Australia.

Genealogical information
The genealogical information on this website consists of names, dates, age and relationships of people who were born before 1900.

The amount of family history information stored for each individual does vary depending on what is written on a monument and its legibility.

The genealogical information within the online database has been extracted from either photos taken by the Gravestone Photographic Resource or by volunteers who have donated them to the resource.

There are still many grave sites not on the database and volunteers are still required to help with this valuable project.  As gravestones decay and collapse, often never repaired or replaced and as old grave sites become reused with space a t a premium, it is vital that we record as much data as possible.

Visit the Gravestone Photographic Resource website