Find A Grave Update on Ancestry

There are 3.9 million new entries on Ancestry’s version of Find A Grave since August. The U.S. has 1.6 million additions, with the UK and Ireland adding 1.1 million. Canada added over a quarter million.

Region December 2023 August 2023 May 2023
U.S. 175,802,716 174,219,998 172,857,217
Global 15,649,165 15,090,205 14,604,632
Mexico 69,789 66,008 62,956
UK and Ireland 19,341,965 18,201,134 16,712,454*
Norway 223,985 220,413 216,182*
Italy 343,946 329,383 318,700
Sweden 1,116,071 1,110,094 719,305
Canada 10,080,603 9,808,392 9,646,273
Australia and New Zealand 11,436,526 11,297,318 11,044,654
Brazil 189,211 186,642 165,727
Germany 3,017,935 2,822,677 2,520,011

Note that the UK and Ireland, and Norway entries in the May column refer to the prior March 2023 update.

The actual Find A Grave site, where you can search 566,253 cemeteries in 249 different countries, has additional entries.

One Reply to “Find A Grave Update on Ancestry”

  1. I’ll have to check it out and see if any for my lines have been added, though often they don’t turn out to be all that useful and some even have incorrect information.

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