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Cemeteries

Subject Guide

Sylvia Reyna

Subjects: Genealogy, Texana

San Antonio Cemeteries

Check for alternate spellings. Information included here is as it appears on the cemetery cards and City Sexton's book.

Historic Eastside Cemetery Google Map

In the Vault

Texana Library Use Only Materials

African American Funeral Programs

African American Funeral Programs -The Portal to Texas History

Archival Finding Aids -Governmental binder (under "San Antonio Parks & Recreation Dept.")

Collins Funeral Home Records

IOOF Odd Fellows Cemetery

Knights of Pythias Cemetery Lot Owners Association

Vertical Files (News Paper Clippings)

Search Our Database

Library Use Only Databases

Check out these database to find information on our dearly departed.

DVDs

199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die by Loren Rhoads
ISBN: 9780316438438
Publication Date: 2017-10-03
A hauntingly beautiful travel guide to the world's most visited cemeteries, told through spectacular photography and their unique histories and residents.
The Cemeteries of New Orleans by Peter B. Dedek
ISBN: 9780807166109
Publication Date: 2017-06-12
In The Cemeteries of New Orleans, Peter B. Dedek reveals the origins and evolution of the Crescent City.
Departures
Call Number: DVD MOVIE DEPARTURES
Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and finds himself without a job.

Net Library

With electronic books, your public library is open 24/7! The San Antonio Public Library offers ways to access ebooks through NetLibrary for free with your San Antonio Public Library Card.

Cincinnati Cemeteries: the Queen City Underground by Kevin Grace and Tom White
ISBN: 0738533483
San Antonio Cemeteries Historic District by Frank Faulkner; Linda Faulkner
ISBN: 9781439646472

Welcome to Cemeteries

Cemeteries

Cemeteries - from the Greek word meaning sleeping place. Bone yards, burial grounds, God's acre, graveyards, memorial parks, necropolis, potter's field, they go by various names. They may also take various formats such as six feet under, sky burials, ossuaries, crypts, mausoleums, sepulchre, tombs, vaults or catacombs. Whatever shape they take they are the "resting place" of the physical body after it ceases to be. A deep and distinct history, ethnicity, and culture is established by exploring the land of the dead.
This guide is designed to introduce you to books, databases, web sites, and other sources of information related to that phase in time when you physically dissolve.

Featured Books

Bexar County, Texas, Selected Cemeteries (early burials)
Call Number: TEXANA 976.435 BEXAR
Camposanto: an Ancient Burial Ground of San Antonio, Texas, 1808-1860
Call Number: TEXANA 976.4351 SAN FERNANDO
Six historical "Colored People's" cemeteries in San Antonio, Texas : headstone readings and index - See more at: http://sapl.sat.lib.tx.us/record=b1335628~S1#sthash.rWuGMUSv.dpuf
Call Number: TEXANA 976.4351 SIX
The American Resting Place by Marilyn Yalom
Call Number: 929.50973 YALOM
Valley of the Golden Mummies by Zahi Hawass
Call Number: 932 HAWASS

Books on CDs

Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Call Number: CD FICTION PRESTON
After New York Times reporter William Smithback and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Pendergast--the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent--returns to New York City to investigate a murderous Obeah cult.
The Language of Secrets by Dianne Dixon
Call Number: CD FICTION DIXON
Justin Fisher has a successful career as the manager of a luxury hotel, a lovely wife, and a charming young son. While all signs point to a bright future, Justin can no longer ignore the hole in his life left by his estranged family. When he finally gathers the courage to reconnect with his troubled past, Justin is devastated to learn that his parents have passed away. And a visit to the cemetery brings the greatest shock of all, next to the graves of his father and mother sits a smaller tombstone for a three-year-old boy named Thomas Justin Fisher.
This Body of Death: an inspector Lynley novel / Elizabeth George
Call Number: CD FICTION GEORGE
While Inspector Lynley takes a leave following his wife's murder, Isabelle Ardery is given temporary control of the Met. When a body is discovered in a Stoke Newington cemetery and the Met is targeted by the relentless media, Isabelle is forced to convince Lynley to return to work and spearhead the investigation.

Downloadable Books

The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen
Recent divorcee Julia Hamill has sunk her dwindling life savings into a 200-year-old farmhouse and a twenty-acre plot of woods, fields, and stony soil in rural Massachusetts, where she hopes to recover from her failed marriage. Gardening one afternoon, her spade strikes something hard and unyielding?not a rock, but a human skull.
The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN: 0061444065
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
In 1936 the Schwarts, an immigrant family desperate to escape Nazi Germany, settle in a small town in upstate New York, where the father, a former high school teacher, is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. After local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty result in unspeakable tragedy, the gravedigger's daughter, Rebecca, begins her astonishing pilgrimage into America, an odyssey of erotic risk and imaginative daring, ingenious self-invention, and, in the end, a bittersweet--but very "American"--triumph. "You are born here, they will not hurt you"--so the gravedigger has predicted for his daughter, which will turn out to be true.

Web Sites of Interest

The Following web sites provide detailed information on topics related to cemeteries.

Access Genealogy Cemetery Records
U. S. Cemetery Records: transcription database, reading tips, research articles, national, WPA, & historical cemetery records.
Cemetry Records Online
Commonwealth War Graves Commissions
Find a Grave
Find a Grave in Texas and Beyond
International Jewish Cemetery Project
National Cemetery Administration
Nationwide Gravesite Locator
US GenWeb Project
State Tombstone Transcription Projects

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