"We are alive, as long as they remember us ..." - the proverb says. A tribute of respect and respect to relatives and friends is the maintenance of the burial place at the proper level. But very often the graves are left without proper care just because relatives, friends, relatives simply do not know where the person is buried. About how to find a grave in a cemetery, you will learn from this article.
Directly on the graveyard
The search for the grave begins with the simplest thing - ask relatives and friends, maybe someone will tell you. If you still have a death certificate, just turn it over. Often on the back you can find the number of the burial site, but not always. But if the questioning did not help, and there is no death certificate, because the deceased is not your kin, then it's time to go directly to the churchyard and contact the administration with a question about how to find a person’s grave in the cemetery. After all, information about the burial in the USSR was available only in the cemetery archive, the registry offices only recorded the very fact of death, but not information about the funeral. Nothing has changed since then.
We ask the administration for help, it can help find the grave in the cemetery by last name, first name and patronymic. And that is not always the case, because all the archives were kept on paper, which sometimes are simply lost. Significantly simplifies the task of finding knowledge of the estimated date of death. But if you ask a question about how to find the grave of a relative in the cemetery, who died at the beginning of the last century, then there may be great difficulties in the search, because during the Second World War many archives were simply lost.
But you don’t always know what cemetery a person is buried in. What other ways are there?
Through the Ministry of Defense
In search of the man who died during the Great Patriotic War, you will come to the aid of a single open base "Memorial". A huge number of volunteers from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation worked on its creation. Now, with her help, many answered the question of where relatives are buried. Over 20 million entries are contained in this database.
There is a similar database with information about more than 2 million burials of victims of the First World War. It is called "In memory of the heroes of the Great War of 1914-1918." Based on this database, you will not always find the answer to the question of how to find a person’s grave in a cemetery, but at least you will represent an approximate place of death.
The archive of the Ministry of Defense contains records about the majority of military personnel who died while serving the Motherland, a lot of information about the dead who were retired. You can get the data by contacting the reception of the Ministry of Defense.
Using the internet
More and more spheres of life cover the World Wide Web. Now, with its help, you can find the answer to the question of how to find a grave in a cemetery without even leaving the house. Today you can find information about hundreds of thousands of dead people. And all this is freely available.
Answers the question of how to find a grave in a cemetery, and the site pomnim.pro, on the pages of which graveyards of 27 cities of the CIS countries are collected, which is almost two million graves. Check if you can find the right burial place. It is only necessary to fill out a short form - name and other data by which the grave can be found. The project itself also provides for the search for a grave to order, but this is no longer free.
Great project - Unified burial base
The idea to create a single base, similar to the base of the Ministry of Defense, both cemeteries and graves in Russia and the CIS countries has been wandering in the minds for a long time. And so, as the newspaper Izvestia reports, now it has begun to be implemented. In the project "Cemetery.rf" it is enough to enter the name of the deceased, and if possible, then the date of birth and death. You will receive a specific location of the grave with the entered data on Yandex.Maps.
To get an answer to the question about how to find the grave of the right person in the cemetery, it is only possible in the territory of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, but over time the base will be supplemented. The project will be useful not only for relatives looking for their relatives, but also useful to social services, as well as police officers. Later it is planned to create a base of persons responsible for caring for each grave.
PS If you are looking for your relatives and assume that the deceased was a believer and he was buried, then contact the church at the place of residence. The parish registration book may also contain information about the grave of the funeral service.