Our car's license plate says...."Genealogists collect dead relatives" so where else to look for them but in a cemetery. Of course it helps if you know which town and state the cemetery is in, then which cemetery in that location. If you have a map of the cemetery you are very lucky. There is a great website that will help you find your ancestor's final resting place called www.findagrave.com try it sometime. Without leaving your home, you can find valuable information. Many times they have already posted a headstone of your family member or will take a photo for you.
We spent quite a bit of time walking all over the Gatesville Texas City Cemetery before we located my husband's family's headstones. Seems in all the years he spent in this town they never visited his great grandparents graves on Memorial Day. Finding a headstone gives you some important genealogical info as to date of birth and death plus other family members buried nearby.