What do you know about Grave Registration Cards?
Answer
Grave Registration Cards are a listing of war veterans buried in the state of Ohio. The Grave Registration Cards were compiled as a New Deal program under the Works Progress Administration in the late 1930s under the Historical Records Survey, sponsored by the Ohio Adjutant General’s Department. The project was ambitious, trying to record the grave of every veteran buried in Ohio, but the record is far from comprehensive and the information not always accurate. The information on the cards was taken from burial or cemetery records or from information on the headstones. Information about military service may have come from the county recorder’s office or military rosters or the local GAR. It is hard to say with any certainty where the information on an individual card came from.
Grave Registration Cards can be found on microfilm (GR3146-GR3238, GR3239-GR3252) in our library and online on Fold3.