The Vermont Old Cemetery Association

Suggestions for finding burial sites, etc.

VOCA cannot tell you where your relatives are buried in Vermont. VOCA's book The Burial Grounds of Vermont book is extremely useful, but does not have very many names of your grandfathers or where he may be buried. It has maps of every town in VT showing the location of every known cemetery in that town. It is useful only if you want to find a cemetery, another bit of help may be the list of cemetery locations on this site. That, however, it is not a complete list. Also in the VOCA Bookstore are many other sources of information from individual town & county Historical Societies, etc., and check out the links pages for more sources of information compiled by various other organizations.

Subscribe to the Vermont-L@rootsweb list or the county ones, or to go to the free LDS web site and do some searching.

Once you learn WHERE in Vermont your ancestors are buried, there is a book available from your library or the Vermont Historical Society Library Book Store and web site called “Index to Known Cemetery Inscriptions in Vermont” 4th Edition by Joann H. Nichols, Patricia L. Haslam and Robert M. Murphy that will help find published inscriptions.

Check out the VOCA web site's new list of genealogists offering help.

Updated Thursday, November 22, 2007