USSVI Veterans News 
Posting Date: 05 July 2006
From:  John Dudas
VA Adds More Cemeteries to Database


VA recently added to its database the cemeteries in which 1.9 million veterans were buried with VA grave markers.

These are mostly private cemeteries.

This addition brings the number of graves recorded in the gravesite locator to approximately five million.

Those with maps are in VA national cemeteries and in state veterans cemeteries and Arlington National Cemetery if burials were since 1999.

Beyond the five million records now available, VA continues to add approximately 1,000 new records to the database each day.

VA also plans to add to its online database the exact locations of veterans' gravesites in the remaining state veterans cemeteries.