Rhode Island Cemetery records are listed by county then name of cemetery within the Rhode Island county. Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing.
There is presently a massive ongoing effort by various societies to record all of Rhode Island cemeteries into one large database. This is a very successful project covering most of the cemeteries in Rhode Island. Any cemetery listed below, not linked to, can be searched using the following link.
- The Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Transcription Project
There are now 458,000 records from 3400 cemeteries in the database - Gravestone Search
- Cemetery Search
- View/Search Mapped Cemeteries
- View All Mapped Cemeteries (Mobile)
Rhode Island Cemetery Links
- Rhode Island Laws regarding Historical Cemeteries
- RI Historical Society
- Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
- RI Genealogical Society
- Newports Common Burial Ground African Section
- Association for Gravestone Studies
- Find a Grave
- Rhode Island Sons of American Revolution
- Preserve Rhode Island
- North Burial Ground Project
- Cape Cod Gravestones
- Newport Common Burying Ground Brochure
- Preserving Grave Markers in Historic Cemeteries (National Park Service)
- Cemetery Conservation (National Center for Preservation Technology)