SGS Provincial Cemetery Indexing Project

The collection of burial records for all Saskatchewan cemeteries is an ongoing project of the Saskatchewan Genealogical Society. Most SGS Branches, including the Regina Branch, participate by reading headstones in local cemeteries and preparing indexes.

As part of this project, SGS maintains an inventory of Saskatchewan cemeteries. This database contains the name and location of over 3,330 cemetery and burial sites in the province.

If the cemetery records have been collected, the cemetery information is available at the SGS Library. In most cases, that data has also been entered into Saskatchewan Residents Index, a database available at SGS.

See the SGS web site for details on how to access the cemetery information held in the SGS provincial library.

Regina Branch Cemetery Reading . . .

Each year members of our branch venture out to record a cemetery or two to assist the SGS with their province wide project. Usually we do this on a Sunday in June. We arrange drivers and picking up of members so that all of us don’t have to drive.

Prior to the reading, we arrange with the R.M. office, village office or individual who has burial records for maps or burial lists to work from. We supply these, and recording sheets provided by the SGS, to the readers. We then divide up and work row by row reading each headstone or grave marker. In some cases, the cemetery has been previously recorded so all we will do is update the current records.

We record items of interest to anyone collecting family history such as full name, birth and death dates, family members, birth places, titles (father, mother, grandmother, sister, etc.). We also look for any items of interest on the headstone such as symbols of organizations (Masonic, Legion, Church, etc.).

Once the information is recorded, copies are given to SGS and are stored in the Library and on the SRI (Saskatchewan Residents Index). A copy is maintained at the Regina Branch Library as well.

Cemetery Searches by Regina Branch

For a small fee, members of the Regina Branch will do a search of any of the cemetery records that have been recorded and indexed by the Branch. (See the list of cemeteries below.) We will also search other Saskatchewan cemetery records housed at the SGS Library.

Cemeteries Indexed by Regina Branch

During the past decade, members of SGS Regina Branch have read and indexed most of the cemeteries in Rural Municipalities near Regina. These include: