Insights
What the archive reveals when you step back and look at all of it at once — the shape of a community across generations, held in names, dates, and burial grounds.
Documented by decade
Each bar is the number of people in the archive who died in that decade — a record that grows denser through the 20th century as families and records were preserved.
How long they lived
Among the 86,029 people with both a birth and death date, the median lifespan was 61 years.
Most-represented family names
The surnames that recur most across the archive — each one a thread connecting people, plots, and places.
By state
Documented people and the cemeteries that hold them, by state. Coverage reflects where the archive has grown so far — an invitation to fill in the rest.
Every figure here is one more person found. Search the archive, or add what you know.