Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Find a Grave

The 20 closest genealogy database alternatives to Find a Grave, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 14 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Find a Grave? The closest matches are Ancestry, FamilySearch and Geneanet. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Find a Grave

Find a Grave findagrave.com

Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records

The World’s largest gravesite collection. Contribute, create and discover gravesites from all over the world. Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records.

Wikidata: online database of burials

Top 10K · #3,961 English 14 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
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Summary by Claude

A crowdsourced online database of cemetery and burial records where users search for graves, create virtual memorials, and add photos, flowers and notes. Owned by Ancestry.com.

Who it’s for
Genealogists, family historians and people looking for graves of relatives or famous people
Business model
Advertising and ad-free memberships

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Find a Grave’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

Giphythemoviedb.orgGoFundMeMetal ArchivesNational Archives and Records AdministrationWhitepagesLegacy.comGeneanetFamilySearchAncestry

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Find a Grave

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Find a Grave, thumbs down if it isn’t.

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  1. 01
    Ancestry ancestry.com Top 1K

    genealogy website

  2. 02
    FamilySearch familysearch.org Top 10K

    U.S. Mormon genealogical organization and website

  3. 03
    Geneanet geneanet.org Top 10K English

    international genealogy database

  4. 04
    Legacy.com legacy.com Top 10K English

    commercial provider of online memorials

  5. 05
    Whitepages whitepages.com Top 10K English

    Whitepages: People Search, Phone Numbers & Addresses

    Founded in 1997, Whitepages is the largest U.S. directory and trusted source for contact info and property data. Find people, phone numbers, addresses, and emails nationwide. Free and premium search across the Whitepages Identity Graph: 350M+ identity records, 4B+ data linkages, 112M+ property records.

  6. 06

    National Archives | Home

    National Archives and Records Administration

  7. 07
    Metal Archives metal-archives.com Top 10K

    Home - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives

    website on heavy metal bands

  8. 08
    GoFundMe gofundme.com Top 10K English

    GoFundMe | The #1 Crowdfunding and Fundraising Platform

    Start your fundraiser in minutes with tools to help you succeed. GoFundMe is the global leader in crowdfunding, trusted by 100+ million people.

  9. 09
    themoviedb.org Top 10K English

    free, collaborative database about films

  10. 10
    Giphy giphy.com Top 10K English

    GIPHY - Be Animated

    GIPHY is the platform that animates your world. Find the GIFs, Clips, and Stickers that make your conversations more positive, more expressive, and more you.

  11. 11
    Redfin redfin.com Top 10K English

    Human Verification

    American real estate brokerage

  12. 12
    PagesJaunes pagesjaunes.fr Top 10K French

    pagesjaunes : Trouvez plus que des coordonnées.

    telephone and business directory

  13. 13
    Guinness World Records guinnessworldrecords.com Top 10K English

    Home | Guinness World Records

    The Guinness World Records official site with ultimate record-breaking facts & achievements. Do you want to set a world record? Are you Officially Amazing?

  14. 14
    Our World in Data ourworldindata.org Top 10K English

    Our World in Data

    Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.

  15. 15
    OpenStreetMap openstreetmap.org Top 1K English

    OpenStreetMap

    OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

  16. 16
    Wowhead wowhead.com Top 10K English

    World of Warcraft News and Guides

    The largest World of Warcraft (WoW) information site, featuring guides, news, and information on classes, gearing, professions, raids, transmog, and more.

  17. 17
    Europe PubMed Central europepmc.org Top 10K English

    database of biomedical research

  18. 18
    Know Your Meme knowyourmeme.com Top 10K English

    Internet Meme Database | Know Your Meme

    Know Your Meme is a website dedicated to documenting Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more.

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    Answers answers.com Top 10K English

    Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions

    Answers is the place to go to get the answers you need and to ask the questions you want

  20. 20
    The Knot theknot.com Top 10K

    media publisher for wedding planning owned by The Knot Worldwide

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to findagrave.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Find a Grave uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Find a Grave is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

JavaScript libraries
  • jQuery asset https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js
Analytics
Tag managers
Advertising
Cookie consent
Payments
  • Stripe TXT stripe-verification=b00105b0db8f0e4e0cb346d8478828e70b7715ada46d6fa88…
CDN
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 ip4:35.169.214.78 ip4:34.233.96.136 ip4:3.230.113.24 ip4:3.219…
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=kXS4kgWQ9hbGjWDmISoLGlXLaOx8-EdTig6ux…
  • Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: Wbl3o_0qjIC-x4pch2mozk2_vqI1mwv0fLQvlV6G9a4

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