Search for all ancestors in a certain cemetery.

LegacyUser

Jennie Isom said: I would LOVE to have a way to look up all my ancestors buried in a certain place. When we are up visiting family in Logan or for Bear Lake for example I’d love to be able to look up a cemetery and be able to see ALL my ancestors buried there so we could go show our children and share stories about them. If there is already a way to do this please let me know!!

LegacyUser

Robert Wren said: The actual Find a Grave person page gives you the option to find all the people of that name with a 'click'

LegacyUser

Jeff_Luke said: Hi Jennie - you can try using these links on the findagrave site. It will show people with the same last name, but not necessarily people that are related.

What you are asking about is a little bit different though because not all relatives have the same last name and not all people with the same last name are related.

That would be a cool feature.

LegacyUser

Jeff Wiseman said: You can not do this in FS. Furthermore, you don't have the ability to define WHO of the 1.3 Billion names in the FS FamilyTree are "your ancestors and relatives".

If you were to get a free copy of the FS certified Ancestral Quest (i.e., the current version of the old PAF program) and download all of the ancestors and relatives that you have of interest into the AQ database (fairly easy to do), doing what you are asking to do is a cinch using the generic Name List function. Here's an example of my Name List in my AQ database sorted in order of Burial Place:



Oh, and by the way, the application ALSO allows you to sync information from the FSFT after you've made changes to it so that you have a "backup" copy of what a record looked like when you made the changes. At any later date you can run a compare between your backup record in the AQ database and that in the FSFT to instantly see what has changed without having to decode and interpret the Change History logs.

And I should also mention that when printing charts of various sorts, the capabilities of AQ far outweigh those of the FS website. There are so many variations to reports and charts in AQ that their configurations window had to be broken up into 13 different tabs. Here's a screen shot of just one of them:



Since the basic product is free forever, there is no risk to try it out. You might really like it.

BTW I suspect that the other two PC/mac based certified programs (Roots Magic and Legacy) can do similar things to this, I'm just familiar with the AQ application.

LegacyUser

Gordon Collett said: To do this, use the Family Tree Mobile app.

Go to the More tab and choose Map My Ancestors:



Click on the gear icon in the upper right hand corner to get a brief explanation, choose whether to see "only direct line ancestors" back six generations or those ancestors and their children. Note that it also states that anyone you have viewed, that is those 50 people on your Recents list will also be shown:



Use the search box to type in the name of the cemetery (this only works, of course, if all these people have the cemetery entered in the burial field in Family Tree) then select from the drop down menu the one you want:



Zoom in on the map to the location:



Then click on the number in the blue dot or swipe up on the little bar just above the search box to view the list of your relatives and recents buried in that cemetery:

LegacyUser

Jennie Isom said: Thank you so much! I had never realized I could search cemeteries this way! So helpful!! Wish I had known this years ago as I’m now seeing relatives buried right by where I have lived in different places across the country! Fascinating!

MrsLCJ

For those of you who wanted it, this feature is here!!! Use it in May of 2023!

https://www.familysearch.org/campaign/cemetery?ancestor_pid_1=KWZD-PQZ&cisid=MMMM-MYV9&icid=fsm_cemetery_cta