The Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Transcription Project
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The RI Historical Cemeteries Master Index Table
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Page 1: A to CURTISS Page 2: DAIGNAULT, CHARLES to KEACH Page 3: KELLEY, JAMES to REID, EDITH Page 4: RENAUD, JEAN to The End
Cemetery Database as of July 2007The Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Transcription Project was begun by genealogists in 1990 with the goal of entering all known transcriptions of cemeteries in RI into a database (phase 1), then sending volunteers into the field with a printout to see which stones were still there and whether they were correctly transcribed (phase 2). The Association for Gravestone Studies format is used. The cemeteries and the listings are primarily 1647-1900.
The Database
The whole database can be accessed by computer at the Rhode Island Historical Society in Providence.The Master Index is available at NEHGS. For a complete list of locations where copies of the database are available, as well as tipes for using the database, see the Rhode Island Cemeteries Database Home Page. Books have been published for many of the towns, and more are planned. The Project is still all done by volunteers.
When project volunteers record a cemetery, location of individual graves is scrupulously noted. Graves were moved usually due to the breakup of farms for housing or roads or because a family desired to move their dead to a more upscale cemetery.The new locations of most of the moved cemeteries/graves are known. Most of the completely "missing" cemeteries consisted of a handful of stones.
Link to Some Additional Important Information
Only the Master Index is available through the RIGenWeb Project. The whole database (most listings are 1647-1900), including name and maiden name indexes, can be accessed by computer at the:
Rhode Island Historical Society Library
121 Hope Street
Providence, RI 02906
(401) 331-8575American French Genealogical Society
78 Earle Street
Woonsocket, RI 02895
Mailing Address: PO Box 830
Woonsocket, RI 02895-0870
Phone/fax (401) 765-6141East Greenwich Free Library
82 Peirce Street
East Greenwich, RI 02818
(401) 884-9510Greenville Public Library
573 Putnam Pike
Greenville, RI 02828
Phone 401-949-3630
Fax 401-949-0530Warwick Public Library
600 Sandy Lane
Warwick, RI 02886West Warwick Public Library
1043 Main Street
West Warwick, RI 02893
(401) 828-3750Rhode Island cemeteries as listed in BigYellow
- Additional Bristol County cemeteries information
- Additional Kent County cemeteries information
- Additional City of Providence cemeteries information
- Additional Providence County cemeteries information
- Additional Washington County cemeteries information
- Additional Newport County cemeteries information
Donated Pictures of Cemeteries and Gravestones Old picture postcards of Swan Point Cemetery and the North Burial Ground, Providence
Photograph of Island Cemetery Administration Building, Newport.Pictures, and links to pages with pictures, of gravestones
Swan Point Cemetery Home Page.
Key to Cemetery Locations, Terms and Abbreviations
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