The cemeteries page has a list of all Council-maintained burial places, and a few private ones. Records for cemeteries currently in use are held by various Fife Council offices. There are also a few older records held by Fife Council Archives. Details of all cemeteries and their records are given on the parish pages.
There are 2 crematoria in Fife - Kirkcaldy (opened in 1959) and Dunfermline (opened in 1973). Details on the parish pages. The crematoria at Dundee (opened in 1936) and at Perth (opened in 1962) are used by residents in north Fife.
The Scottish Genealogy Society has published three volumes of pre-1855 monumental inscription listings for Fife.
- "Fifeshire Monumental Inscriptions (pre-1855) vol. 1 South east parishes"
John Fowler Mitchell & Sheila Mitchell
ISBN 0901061948 - "Fifeshire Monumental Inscriptions (pre-1855) vol. 2 The western parishes"
John Fowler Mitchell & Sheila Mitchell
ISBN 0901061972 - Fifeshire Monumental Inscriptions (pre-1855) vol. 3 The north east parishes
John Fowler Mitchell & Sheila Mitchell
ISBN 0901061999
The older edition, in 2 volumes, "Monumental inscriptions (pre-1855) in West Fife" and "Monumental inscriptions (pre-1855) in East Fife", is available on microfilm at LDS Family History Centres around the world.
Some stones are recorded in Graveyard Monuments in East, North and Central Fife, John di Folco, published in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1969-70, vol. 102, pages 205-236, which deals largely with stones dated pre-1707. It can be downloaded from the Archaeology Data Service.
Fife Family History Society have produced the Pre-1855 Fife Deaths CD which contains the details of over 250,000 deaths in Fife extracted from burial registers, kirk session records, monumental inscriptions, newspapers, wills and testamants, etc.
The Fife Family History Society, the Tay Valley Family History Society and the main local libraries have copies of many monumental inscriptions and burial registers.
War graves can be seen at Scottish Wargraves and war memorials can be seen at the Scottish War Memorials Project.
CDs with photographs of the stones and transcriptions of most Fife cemeteries are available from Scottish Monumental Inscriptions or from The Parish Chest. Some of these photographs are included in Deceased Online