05 November 2019

Find A Grave Index Update

Find A Grave, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ancestry.com, promotes itself as the world’s largest gravesite collection with over 180 million memorials created by the community since 1995.
With an update on Ancestry on 1 November, the exact number is 181,584,856. 82% are in the USA, followed by Global including burials at sea (7.4%), UK and Ireland (3.7%), then Canada (3.5%.)

TitleDatesRecords
Australia and New Zealand1800s-Current5442567
Brazil1800s-Current126,161
Canada1600s-Current6,103,062
Germany1600s-Current688,049
Global1300s-Current13,393,910
Italy1800s-Current148,121
Mexico1800s-Current27,588
Norway1800s-Current158,176
Sweden1800s-Current41,561
U.S.1600s-Current148,768,351
UK and Ireland1300s-Current6,687,310

For those who turn first to obits in the newspaper, Find A Grave has a list of recent deaths of famous people from around the world.

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