Where the listings come from
There is no national register of funeral homes in the United States; licenses are issued state by state. The directory currently holds 29,699 funeral homes and related providers, built from open data:
- Overture Maps Places. The backbone of the directory. Overture Maps Foundation publishes an open dataset of places, built from Meta and Microsoft data, among others. It supplies the name, address, phone number, website, business category, brand and operating status of each location. Overture Places data is available under the Community Data License Agreement, Permissive, Version 2.0 (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).
- OpenStreetMap. Used for enrichment: opening hours, religious affiliation, websites and links that volunteer mappers have recorded, plus funeral homes and crematories that are mapped in OpenStreetMap but missing from Overture. OpenStreetMap data is © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License (ODbL).
- GeoNames and the US Census Bureau. Cities and towns come from GeoNames; county boundaries and ZIP code areas come from the US Census Bureau. We use them to place each listing in the right state, county, city and ZIP code.
When a funeral home appears in both Overture and OpenStreetMap, we match the records by an identical normalized name within a few hundred meters, or by the same phone number or website. Overture supplies the core record; OpenStreetMap fills in details it lacks. Locations that the source marks as closed, or that have a low source confidence, are not published.
How we classify listings
We assign a type, religious affiliation or service only when the source says so. A funeral home is listed as offering cremation when the source classifies it as a cremation service or its official name says cremation or crematory. It is listed as Jewish or Catholic when its record carries that affiliation or its official name states it; we never infer a faith from a family name. Services such as pre-planning, livestreaming or veterans honors are shown only when the funeral home, a verified correction or the source confirms them. When we don't know, the page says “Not available”. See all services and types for the rule behind each category.
Monument and headstone dealers are listed so families can find them, but they are kept apart from funeral homes in our categories.
Cities and counties
Most listings carry a mailing address, and we use the city named in it. When a record has no town in its address, we list it under the nearest town from GeoNames and say so on the city page, so a listing filed under a city may be just outside its limits. The map pin always shows the recorded location.
Duplicates and chains
The same funeral home can be recorded more than once, for example as “St. Mary's Funeral Home” in one source and “Saint Mary Funeral Home” in another. Many funeral homes also belong to larger groups whose locations have nearly identical names, so we compare addresses and phone numbers, not names alone. We merge records automatically only when they are certainly the same place. Uncertain matches go to a review queue and stay separate until a person checks them.
Corrections and verification
Every listing has a correction form. Funeral home staff, families and researchers can suggest changes, and we review each one before publishing. A listing shows “Verified” only after its details have been confirmed. Always confirm hours, services and prices directly with the funeral home; under the FTC Funeral Rule you can ask any funeral home for its itemized General Price List.
What we do not publish
- Prices, unless they come from a source we can name.
- Ratings or reviews we cannot attribute to a real customer.
- Descriptions or histories that are not supported by a source.
- Obituaries or records of individual deaths.