GUIDELINES

Before using this index, the researcher might consider the following:

1. For those burials within veteran’s sections - Information has been taken from the grave markers. The state name given can be the veteran’s birthplace or the state from which the veteran enlisted or it may be both. The state name given will be found in the Birthplace/Miscellaneous Column

2. Burials with interment in Graves which are located in Tiers and have no other identification as to location are coded as being in an unknown location. This location is called the Tier Grounds. The present day Plot Books, originally prepared about 1896, do not show tier grounds. As the size of the cemetery expanded through the past 150 years and as changes were made to routes through the cemetery, and as other cemeteries developed adjacent to the City Cemetery, these old tier grounds lost their identity. I have used the information that is available today in the present day cemetery.

3. The term “Burial Book” has been used in the interest of conserving space in this index. It refers to any volume of “Deaths and Interments In and From the City of Sacramento.” These bound volumes begin with the year 1850 and end with the year 1927. Some volumes are daily records and some are registers arranged in alpha groups. The volume for the years 1871-1884 was removed to the Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center because of its fragility. However, the data in that volume was extracted by me and entered by me into a computer. My computer printout is available at the cemetery. Beginning in the year 1936 and continued to the present day, interments have been recorded in lined notebooks.

4. Cause of death has been entered in the Miscellaneous Column in this index. It appears that the persons entering the cause of death in the Deaths and Interments volumes were transcribing from another record. In many cases the transcriber has carefully attempted to copy each letter of the word(s) and failed leaving the researcher with an illegible cause of death. In some cases, the original entry was made by a person of foreign education. The terms used and the handwriting made some transcriptions difficult to do.