About
An independent public-service reference for veterans cemeteries and their histories.
Mission
To honor those who served by preserving the histories of their final resting places and making accurate cemetery information accessible to families, researchers, veterans, and future generations.
What this site is
VeteranCemeteries.com helps people find veterans cemeteries, plan respectful visits, understand the history of those places, and locate reliable official sources about the people commemorated there. Everything needed to find a cemetery is free to use. There are no advertisements, no paywalls and no accounts.
What this site is not
VeteranCemeteries.com is an independent reference and historical project. It is not an official website of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, or any government agency.
It does not host individual burial records, does not decide burial eligibility, and does not sell services. When an official agency holds the answer, the site links to that agency.
Editorial promise
Every place has a history. Every service deserves respect. Every claim deserves a source.
- No invented stories, dates, ranks, affiliations, photographs or interments.
- Where something has not been checked, the page says “Not yet verified” rather than guessing.
- Every cemetery page names its source and the date the data was retrieved.
- Anyone can report a correction without an account.
The details are in the methodology and the list of data sources.
Where the project stands
The directory currently covers the sites in one public dataset from the VA’s National Cemetery Administration. State, territorial and tribal veterans cemeteries, Arlington National Cemetery, overseas cemeteries and cemetery histories are planned and not yet included. The methodology page lists what is and is not covered.
Acknowledgment
VeteranCemeteries.com is an independent public-service research project. Its initial development has been supported by Operation Headstone. Editorial decisions, source standards, and the visitor experience remain focused solely on the VeteranCemeteries.com mission.
Contact
Use the contact form for general questions and the corrections form for errors on a specific page.