Where Can I Find Burial Records?

• Burial records transcribed from many burial records are available online. See Burial records online
• Most Bedfordshire libraries hold the National burial index on CD-ROM
• Some Bedfordshire libraries hold records. See Cemetery records printed or on microfiche in Bedfordshire libraries
• For details of parish register transcriptions and copies available at Bedfordshire libraries, see the separate Parish registers section
• For lists of burial records held in Bedfordshire's record office, see the Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service web site and click 'Genealogy'
• For contact details of cemeteries and burial grounds and of cemetery, crematoria and natural burial ground operators, see the Bereavement Services Portal web site

• You can read more detailed information about the whereabouts of burial records, including non-conformist, Roman Catholic and Jewish records, in the National Archives Research Guide 'Burial records' and in the 'Religious records' section of FamilyRecords.gov.uk

• The Genuki site also gives further information in its broader sections on 'Church records' and 'Jewish records'

• If you are looking for the burial place of someone well-known, you could try one of these books in Bedfordshire libraries: Who's buried where in England, Where are they buried, how did they die? and Who lies where: a guide to famous graves
• Return to Burial records for more information

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