how can i found out where an ancestor is buried? we would like to find my great great grandmothers grave she?

Question

came over here from poland she lived in NJ so how can i find which cemetary she is in?

all i know right now is that she came over here from poland her name was mary zielinski she was married to a man named charles we believe we dont really know the time frame....my grandmother grew up in the red bank area i believe but also lived in cranbury NJ i know she used to wait for my grandmother every day to get done school so i believe it was somewhere maybe around red bank maybe south jersey central jersey area i tried looking on the ellis island website to see if maybe i could find her on there i found a couple maryanna's and a marya but not quite sure yet if any of those are her...i will be talking to another family member that might know a little more but thats all i got at this point i found a website that lists all of jerseys cemetaries but they dont list everyone in the cemetary

well my grandmother was born 1935 and she was alive then my mother was born 1962 and she doesnt remember her

she died while my grandmother was still fairly young and school aged my grandmother was born 1935 so im thinking around 1940's maybe early 50's she died

and she did live in red bank nj

Answer 1

there are websites that can tell you that

Answer 2

Hey Jessica, Start with your Records, and family interviews. Get Birth, Death, Marriage, Wills, Probate, any records, pictures and stories from all the living relatives. Then look at your family tree base, and determine exactly what information it is you need, to link to what next connection. You need to do one node at a time. Anything else will drive you crazy. You can get vital records (birth, death, etc), by knowing a place and year. So, go to a certificate, say for your mother, and look at her parents information on her certificate - it will give their place of birth. From there you order the Certificates for that person. Beyond this, each case is a specific research project. General answers will not do if you need GGMother specifically. Give some details about what you know, and perhaps someone could really help. For now, here are some Vital Record sites, and Obiturary Sites.

Answer 3

Do you have the exact date of death or almost exact date? Frequently libraries have microfilm of their local newspapers. If so, an obituary probably will give the information.

Also if you know the county she lived in at time of death, you can put a message on the Rootsweb message board(free site). Just pull up message boards, then U. S., then New Jersey and then the county. Sometimes there are nice people monitoring those boards that will help you to get an obit. Once you put the message on their message board, it will be on Ancestry.Com's also and the Rootsweb mailing list.

Also, assuming she was Catholic, you could probably find her date of death in church records as well as the names of her parents. I don't know if it is the same everywhere. Periodically, in our Diocese, parishes send their Baptismal , First Communion, Confirmation, Marriage and Death Registers to the Diocescan Chancery to be microfilmed. So you might check with the parish or the Chancery office.

I have never seen the Death Registers so I don't know if they have information regarding funeral home and cemetery. It just might.

Answer 4

Most persons place of burial will appear on their death certificate. If she died before 1960ish, she won't appear on the social security death index...which is NOT to say she did not have social security, just that the index only shows from about that date. Your search would start in the county where she was last known to be... which (depending on the time frame) might be findable through the census records, OR by collecting info about her children and where they lived. Some usgenweb counties have all the cemeteries in their county surveyed or posted... but no way to even check unless you have a location.
If you repost with the approximate info that you have (name, estimated dates, possible home), we might be able to find clues or info for you.

Answer 5

Can you add additional info to your question that would give your best guess as to WHEN all this was supposed to happen? Even ballpark years (such as when she was born, died, lived anywhere). Just saying great great grandmother doesn't even identify the CENTURY. This could be a family where people had children at 16 or one where people had children at 35 or anywhere inbetween.

The name is too common to find much without such a timeframe.

Answer 6

Try the following websites. Find A Grave is dedicated to transcribing cemeteries. There is also USGenWeb. The links follow...

Answer 7

If you check with the churches in that area they should have a record of who is buried in their cemetary.

Answer 8

That's pretty hard to do unless you know someone who knows. Otherwise, you would have to find out when she died, and hopefully if there is a church she went to or there was an obituary.

Answer 9

You could try here,
http://www.findagrave.com/
you might find her grave, I have had great success with this site, I live in the UK, my ancestors died in three different states but I have managed to find them using this site.

Answer 10

Try this web site

Good luck and good hunting