Interested in exploring graveyards and genealogy, and remembering the lost, unidentified, unnamed, unknown, unmarked, unclaimed, or otherwise victimized (which is not to say every memorial I create or manage falls into these categories).

I am happy to accept management of memorials, especially of unidentified or unclaimed individuals. Also, please let me know if you would like a memorial for a relative or someone important to you transferred to you, or if you would like a memorial transferred to you for any other reason, and why.

Research Links (sources may apply to multiple categories)

Unidentified, Unsolved, Unclaimed, Murdered, Missing / Presumed Deceased

• The Doe Network: https://www.doenetwork.org
• NamUS: https://namus.nij.ojp.gov
• Project Cold Case: https://projectcoldcase.org
• National Center for Missing & Exploited Children: https://www.missingkids.org/home
• Justice Drive: https://justicedrive.org/cases
• GINA for Missing Persons FOUNDation: https://www.411gina.org/index.html
• Interpol—Identify Me: https://www.interpol.int/en/What-you-can-do/Identify-Me
• The Charley Project: https://charleyproject.org
• ViCAP Unidentified Persons: https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/vicap/unidentified-persons
• Solve The Case: https://www.solvethecase.org
• DNA Doe Project: https://dnadoeproject.org
• Arizona OpenGIS Initiative for Deceased Migrants: https://humaneborders.info/app/map_ml.asp
• DNA Justice: https://news.dnajustice.org/featured-cases/
• Someone Saw Something: https://someonesawsomething.ca
• FBI Most Wanted—Seeking Information: https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/seeking-info
• FBI Indian Country: https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/indian-country
• Unidentified Wiki: https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/Unidentified_Wiki
• Black & Missing Foundation: https://www.blackandmissinginc.com
• Virginia Cold Case Database: https://coldcase.vsp.virginia.gov
• Prince William Co. Police—Cold Case Corner: https://www.pwcva.gov/assets/2023-10/ColdCase.pdf
• Virginia State Police—Missing Persons Alerts: https://vsp.virginia.gov/active-alerts/
• Harrisonburg Police Cold Cases: https://www.harrisonburgva.gov/cold-cases
• City of Richmond Homicides by Year: https://www.rva.gov/police/homicides-year
• RVA News—Richmond Homicides: https://rvanews.com/news/richmond-homicides-in-2016/132714
• LSU Cold Case Project: https://lsucoldcaseproject.com
• Alaska Bureau of Investigation: https://dps.alaska.gov/AST/ABI/unresolvedhomicides
• Alaska Dept. of Public Safety: https://hotsheets.dps.alaska.gov/AST/ABI/MissingPerson
• Crime Stoppers of Metro Alabama: https://crimestoppersmetroal.org
• Jefferson Co. Coroner/ME: https://www.jccal.org/Default.asp?ID=236&pg=Coroner%2FMedical+Examiner
• LA Co. Morgue/Cemetery Database: https://dhs.lacounty.gov/home-public-resources-locate-deceased-persons/
• LA Times Homicide Report: https://homicide.latimes.com
• Cook Co. Sheriff: https://cookcountysheriffil.gov/case/
• NYC Hart Island Cemetery: https://www.nyc.gov/site/hartisland/index.page
• The Hart Island Project: https://www.hartisland.net/mobile-map
• Hart Island Cemetery Unknown Individuals: https://www.interment.net/united-states/new-york/bronx-county/hart-island-cemetery/transcription/63.php
• Minnesota Offices of Missing & Murdered: https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/ojp/offices-missing-murdered
• Washington State Patrol—Missing Indigenous Persons List: https://wsp.wa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/4-27-2026-Public-MIP-List.pdf
• Washington DC Unsolved Homicides: https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/unsolved-homicides
• DC Shrines—Washington's Other Monuments: https://dcshrines.blogspot.com/?m=1
• US Indian Affairs: https://www.bia.gov/service/mmu/missing-murdered-cases
• Othram—DNA Solves: https://dnasolves.com
• Parents of Murdered Children—Murder Wall: https://www.pomc.org/murder-wall/
• Memorials and Remembering in New York: https://www.memorialsnewyork.com
• Our Black Girls: https://www.ourblackgirls.com
• Justice for Native People: https://www.justicefornativepeople.com/?m=1
• UK Missing Persons Unit: https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/missingpersons
• Locate International: https://locate.international
• Missing People In America—Missing & Unidentified Persons Database: https://missingpeopleinamerica.org
• San Jose PD Cold Case Files: https://www.sjpd.org/about-us/organization/bureau-of-investigations/investigations-division-ii/homicide/cold-case-files
• Durham PD Unsolved Homicides: https://www.durhamnc.gov/280/Unsolved-Homicides
• Never Forget Chicago: https://neverforgetchi.org
• MMIW Memorial Grove: https://www.mmiwmemorialgrove.com/missing-but-never-forgotten/
• WTKR News3 Hampton Roads Homicide Tracker: https://www.wtkr.com/news/hampton-roads-2023-homicide-tracker
• Fort Myers Police Homicides: https://www.fmpolice.com/253/Ongoing-Homicide-Investigations
• FL Dep of Law Enforcement Missing Endangered Persons Info Clearinghouse: https://www.fdle.state.fl.us/mcicsearch/Search.asp
• Philadelphia Obituary Project: https://www.phillyobitproject.com
• Philadelphia Police Department Unsolved Murders: https://www.phillyunsolvedmurders.com/case-category/unsolved-murders/
• New York-New Jersey Police Joint Cold Case Portal: https://nynjpd.org
• New Jersey Girl Murders Project: https://newjerseygirlmurders.org/
• Murder Inc.: https://murderincorp.wordpress.com
• South Dakota Unresolved Cases: https://atg.sd.gov/OurOffice/Departments/DCI/UnresolvedCases.aspx#gsc.tab=0
• Behind the Blue Wall: https://behindthebluewall.blogspot.com
• Project Identify: https://projectidentify.org
• Veteran Doe: https://www.veterandoe.com
• UK Missing Persons Unit: https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/missingpersons

Gun Violence

• The National Gun Violence Memorial: https://gunmemorial.org
• Gun Violence Archive: https://www.gunviolencearchive.org
• Gun Violence Memorial Project—Moments that Survive: https://momentsthatsurvive.org/memorial/the-gun-violence-memorial-project/
• Sandy Hook Promise—Surviver Stories: https://www.sandyhookpromise.org/get-involved/share-your-story/survivor-stories/
• National Teachers Hall of Fame—Fallen Educators: https://nthf.org/fallen-educators/
• Shot in the U.S.A.—Gun Violence After Newtown: https://usgunviolence.wordpress.com
• The New York Times—Gun Report: https://tinyurl.com/msvrva6r
• Never Forget Chicago—Gun Violence: https://neverforgetchi.org/?s=Gunshot
• Since Parkland: https://sinceparkland.org
• LA Co. Sheriff Deputy-Involved Shootings: https://lasd.org/transparency/deputyinvolvedshootingprevious/

Systemic Violence & Mortality: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Class, Sexual Orientation, Religion, Institutionalization, & Historically Marginalized or Otherwise Vulnerable Populations

• Racial Terror, Lynching in Virginia: https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/valynchings/
• Memorializing Racial Terror—Lynching Markers in the United States: https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/lynchingmarkers/
• Black Past—Lynchings in the US: https://blackpast.org/lynchings-in-the-united-states-since-1865/
• The Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive: https://crrjarchive.org
• Equal Justice Initiative: https://eji.org
• North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence: https://nccadv.org/homicides/
• NCADV/Ms. Magazine—Remember My Name: https://msmagazine.com/2024/10/23/domestic-violence-death/
• Death Penalty Info Center—Execution Database: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-and-research/data/executions
• The Marshall Project: https://www.themarshallproject.org
• Innocence Project: https://innocenceproject.org
• The National Registry of Exonerations: https://exonerationregistry.org
• Texas Dep. of Criminal Justice—Death Row: https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/index.html
• Incarceration Transparency: https://www.incarcerationtransparency.org
• The Alabama Solution—Database: https://thealabamasolution.com/database/
• CripJustice—Stolen Lives: https://cripjustice.org/stolen-lives/
• The Holocaust Center: https://holocaustcenter.org/research/tracing-survivors-victims/
• Densho Digital Repository—Names Registry: https://ddr.densho.org/names/?_gl=1*iwfs8p*_gcl_au*MTMzODg3MDY1Ny4xNzcyMDc3NjU1
• Salem Witch Trials: https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/Commemoration.html
• Trans Murder Monitoring: https://www.tgeu.org/trans-murder-monitoring/
• Remembering Our Dead: https://tdor.translivesmatter.info
• Sean Fader: Insufficient Memory—Queer American Memorials: http://bit.ly/insufficientmemory
• Mapping Police Violence: https://mappingpoliceviolence.org
• I.C.E Detainee Death Reporting: https://www.ice.gov/detain/detainee-death-reporting
• A.I.L.A.—Deaths at Adult Detention Centers: https://www.aila.org/library/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
• ICE Deaths Memorial: https://icefalltracker.com
• America's Black Holocaust Museum—Lynching Victims Memorial: https://www.abhmuseum.org/galleries/special-exhibits/memorial-to-victims-of-lynching/
• Lynching in Texas: https://lynchingintexas.org
• Christine's African American Genealogy Website—Lynchings: https://ccharity.com/contents/a-partial-listing-of-negroes-lynched-in-the-united-states-since-1859/
• Colorado Lynching Memorial Project: https://www.coloradolynchingmemorial.org/colorado-lynchings
• Historical Marker Database—Lynching in America: https://www.hmdb.org/results.asp?Search=Series&SeriesID=645
• Data for Indigenous Justice: https://www.dataforindigenousjustice.org/how-they-lived

Natural Disasters/Weather Events

• Nelson Co. Historical Society—Hurricane Camille: https://nelsonhistorical.org/hurricane-camille
• Hurricane Camille Memorial—Gulf Coast: https://camille.passchristian.net/memorial____gulf_coast.htm
• Known Victims of Hurricane Camille in Louisiana, Mississippi: https://genealogytrails.com/miss/camille%20victims.htm
• Hurricane Katrina Deceased Victims List: https://katrinalist.wordpress.com
• Hurricane Katrina Memorial: https://www.hurricanekatrinamemorial.com
• USM Aquila—Voices of Katrina, Gulf Coast: https://aquila.usm.edu/katrinagulfcoast_voicesofkatrina/
• Whitney Hess—The People Who Were Killed by Hurricane Sandy: https://whitneyhess.com/blog/2012/11/05/the-people-who-were-killed-by-hurricane-sandy/
• Asheville Watchdog—The Lives We Lost to Helene: https://avlwatchdog.org/the-lives-we-lost-to-helene/
• Blue Ridge Public Radio—Names of 108 NC Helene victims: https://www.bpr.org/2025-01-06/state-officials-release-names-of-104-nc-helene-victims
• CNN—Los Angeles Wildfire Victims: https://www.wxii12.com/article/los-angeles-fires-victims/63409150

Health Pandemics/Epidemics/Crises/Mental & Physical Illnesses

• National AIDS Memorial: https://www.aidsmemorial.org
• Marked by COVID—Memorial: https://www.markedbycovid.com/memorial
• COVID Heroes: https://covid-heroes.com
• Mourning our Losses: https://www.mourningourlosses.org/memorials
• Suicide Prevention Alliance: https://www.suicidepreventionalliance.org/memorial-wall/
• Alliance of Hope—Suicide Loss Memorial: https://allianceofhope.org/memorial-wall/
• Drug Epidemic Memorial: https://drugepidemicmemorial.org
• Overdose Memorial: https://www.supportharmreduction.org/mosaic/*/
• National Addiction Memorial: https://www.shatterproof.org/nationalmemorial
• DEA Museum—Faces of Fentanyl: https://fof.dea.gov
• Kansas Infant Deaths & SIDS Memorial: https://www.kidsks.org/memorials.html
• American SIDS Institute Memorial: https://sids.org/memorial-page/
• American Cancer Society—Memorials: https://tinyurl.com/5btfynwe
• Lung Cancer Research Foundation Memorial: https://www.lungcancerresearchfoundation.org/memorial-wall/
• Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance—Memorials: https://tinyurl.com/y4r3e7ff

Transportation & Infrastructure

• VDOT Workers Memorial: https://www.vdot.virginia.gov/about/workers-memorial/
• WNYC Mean Streets 2014: https://project.wnyc.org/traffic-deaths/
• WNYC Mean Streets 2015: https://project.wnyc.org/traffic-deaths-2015/
• Mothers Against Drunk Driving: https://madd.org/category/victim-stories/
• Ghost Bikes: https://ghostbikes.org/ghostbikes.org/index/index.html
• Henrico Co. Unsolved Traffic Fatalities: https://henrico.gov/police/cold-case-investigation/hit-and-run/
• Polk Co. Sheriff—Unsolved Hit & Run Fatalities: https://www.polksheriff.org/news-investigations/unsolved-hit-and-run-fatalities
• Roadside Tribute: https://roadsidetribute.com/home/
• US Department of Labor—OSHA Workers Memorial: https://www.osha.gov/workers-memorial

Furry Friends

• National Police Dog Foundation: https://www.nationalpolicedogfoundation.org/honoring-fallen-k9s
• Fallen K-9 Memorials: https://www.k9memorialcards.com/k9s/
• National Service Animals Monument: https://nationalserviceanimalsmonument.org/memorial-animals/