In modern times the burial record is usually spawned from the mortuary that prepared the body for burial or cremated it. The burial record will usually give information such as what cemetery, the name of a minister or priest or rabbi who conducted a ritual, and some other basic information. It is not a governmental civil records but the burial record and the death certificate seem to lean on each other.
A death certificate is a governmental - civil report on what the person died of, the name of a doctor who had been treating that person or if an autopsy was performed. It will often include the name of a spouse or next of kin, and don't be shocked but some people did not know the maiden name of their own mother!
Step one is to find a death certificate, as possible. Depending on location you might have to swear you are the spouse or child of the person who died. But privacy laws vary and these records are being loaded into databases based on those privacy laws.
Yes, go ahead and check a TOMBSTONE PROJECT.
Step two is to contact the cemetery named and ask them for the burial record. You might start by asking them for the plot location in advance of a visit.
Remember : Find A Grave TM and other such projects are TOMBSTONE PROJECTS. There are more burials in that cemetery than the tombstones. Consider that:
There was never a tombstone or the cemetery is one that does not allow them.
That family members may have been buried in with an earlier burial that the tombstone does not include.
That family plots may not include the names of all the people buried in the plot.
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