Area Cemeteries

Cemetery Books for Sale

Proper Care of Headstones

Niles Area Obituary index on CD

McCoy Cemetery Information

Fairview Cemetery page

Cemetery Searches

The Berrien County Genealogical Society offers Surname searches in some of the Berrien County Cemeteries. The search is $6.00 per surname, paid in advance & It will be refunded if we cannot find the surname you are looking for.

We will only offer searches in the cemeteries that have been transcribed in book format and may be purchased from the society. As we progress in our cemetery book publications, we will offer more township cemeteries to be searched. 

Following is a list of the townships that we can search through now:

Baroda Twp.
Bertrand Twp.
Chikaming Twp.
Coloma Twp.
Galien Twp.
Hagar Twp.
Lake Twp.
Lincoln Twp.
New Buffalo Twp.
Niles Twp. 

We also offer searches in the following cemeteries in

Benton Twp: St. Joseph Twp.

Calvary Highland

Morton Hill

The search is $6.00 per surname.

Berrien County Genealogical Society
P. O. Box 8808 Benton Harbor, MI 49023 E-Mail us at bcgensoc@qtm.net

Cemetery Searches

http://www.savinggraves.com/usa/mi/index.htm Saving Graves - Michigan
On this website you can find links to other sites that pertain to cemeteries
in Michigan.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/michcem
michcem - Save Michigan's Historic Cemeteries
This is a chat room, it was started up in hopes of sparking interest of
Cemetery Preservation throughout the state of Michigan. It is also a list
where you can have the messages come to your mailbox.

Search State of Michigan's web site for things like Attorney General
opinions, regulations and policies. Just enter key word(s) like
cemetery.

http://www.michigan.gov/Michigan's Cemetery Regulations

http://www.cis.state.mi.us/bcs/cemetery/home.htmSaving Graves  

http://www.savinggraves.com/

TREE STUMP WITH IVY. Ever wondered about meanings of such old carvings
on tombstones? See a list of these that is linked from the Coryell
County, Texas USGenWeb page at:  http://www.rootsweb.com/~txcoryel/insc.htm

GRAVE MATTERS. Washington State Cemetery Web pages teaches about proper
gravestone cleaning and some cemetery do's and don'ts, plus step-
by-step instructions for using four forms  -- Cemetery Survey, Survey
Sheets (for individual stones), Photograph Listing, and Gravestone
Assessment. There are also instructions (with photos) for pinning a
headstone/base stone to a concrete footing.
  http://www.rootsweb.com/~wapsgs/WSCA/education.htm

Additional valuable cemetery-related links:
  http://www.rootsweb.com/~wapsgs/WSCA/links.html

By going to Michgan Township's Organization you can search for sample
and actual cemetery ordinances.
http://www.michigantownships.org/sample_ordinances.htm

Visit our neighbors to the South for an excellent reference
 to Laporte, Indiana Cemeteries   LaPorte County Indiana Pioneer Cemeteries Restoration Project
http://www.rootsweb.com/~inlpccem/cems.htm