When I discovered Findagrave.com, it was like a dream come true. Finally there is a way for regular people to create interment records of loved ones, friend or anyone else, and the records are kept. I learned how easy and how rewarding it is to become a voluntary findagrave contributor and it's free. The website is for recording, not just burial records, but records of cremations, etc of those no longer with us. Remember it is not for the living.

Records can be created to respectfully recognize, remember and pay tribute to anyone who has passed away, including family, friends, classmates, co-workers, military service members, church family and so on. There are people who have no records of them ever existing. They are completely omitted from any official records of birth, death or burial. Trust me, there are a lot of people out there that you can't find any records on. Find-a-grave helps us correct this oversight.

Findagrave.com is also the first website I've found that allows you to freely create and record memorials of anyone who has passed away and the records are kept in the U.S., Find a Grave Index and eventually linked to Ancestry.com. It doesn't matter if family members are in different cemeteries or in different states, even different countries, they can be linked and brought together at Findagrave.com. Another nice feature of findagrave is the virtual cemetery. Virtual cemetery allows you to create and give a name to your own cemetery where you can keep records on anyone who already has a findagrave record created on them. It doesn't matter if you created the record or someone else created it, you can add it to your virtual cemetery.