Compiling a family tree: like legacy find a grave if you don't know the exact location. Information from the cemetery book. Relatives information. 
  
I needed to find a grave in a cemetery. I did not know where the relative was buried, but the date of death is known for sure. I went to the cemetery office. Documents of kinship were not asked.

I explained that this is my great-grandfather's brother, I know the date of death, and if we find a grave, we will look after him. The employee said that it was impossible to find an abandoned grave, and the number of the grave from the book would not give me anything. Like, they buried there without logic, and most of the burials have no numbers for a long time. But still agreed to watch the record.

She took out a paper book of burial records. You need to know the year exactly, but the month is desirable. You need to understand that in a big city there will be a large number of death records per month. Viewing them all will be quite problematic. But I knew the date of death, so they found it pretty quickly.

What is indicated in the cemetery book:

• List number.
• Name of the deceased.
• Age.
• Cause of death.
• Date of death.
• Death certificate number (by the way, note: if the administration cannot find, but there is a grave, try to find the number of the death certificate in the cemetery registry book).
• Who issued the death certificate?
• The surname of the excavator.
• The lot number is the number of the grave.
• Surname, name, patronymic and address of a relative or who buries the deceased. In fact, this is the owner of the burial.

Cemetery books are maintained in cities. In rural cemeteries, this was generally not practiced. Most often, for the reason that the burials were made on a related basis. 

How to find a grave in a cemetery

I will note additionally. If you do not know in which specific cemetery your relative is buried, then you still need to decide on the cemetery. Knowing the year of death and the year of discovery of each cemetery, one can quite accurately determine and find the grave in the cemetery.

Knowing the number of the grave, we determine the sector in which it is most likely to be located. From the cemetery book, please copy not only the entry about your relative, but also his “neighbors”.

After all, if the desired grave is abandoned, then it will be quite difficult to recognize it. And by the neighboring inscriptions, you can determine that this is exactly the desired burial.

Carefully study not only the monuments themselves, but also the inscriptions on old crosses and tablets. There may be numbers of graves stamped there, which will tell you how far you are from the right place.