Archive guide · US
VA Nationwide Gravesite Locator
searched live by Provara
What it holds
8.4M veteran and dependent burials: names, birth/death dates, cemetery, branch, rank, wars
Who runs it, and on what terms
- Provider
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- Licence for use here
- CC0 1.0
- Attribution
- Cite 'VA Nationwide Gravesite Locator (data.va.gov)'
- Cost to search
- free
- Terms read
- 2026-09-06
- Official documentation
- https://www.data.va.gov/api/views/3u66-fxug.json
How to search it in Provara
- Cemetery registers: ask Provara which cemetery holds an ancestor.
- Military service and pension files: ask Provara whether an ancestor served and what the file holds.
- Provara searches this archive alongside every other live one, ranks what comes back by how many of the person's recorded facts each hit contains, and shows you the record with a ready citation. Nothing is added to your tree until you confirm it.
Record types here
- Cemetery registers — Who is buried where, with dates and plots — the record that often closes a life when no death certificate survives.
- Military service and pension files — Enlistment, service, discharge and pension papers. Pension files in particular name spouses, children and witnesses.
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