Do you have family from New York? Discover if they were buried in New York and uncover when and where they were laid to rest, along with family members’ names and dates of birth and death.
Do you have family from New York? Discover if they were buried in New York and uncover when and where they were laid to rest, along with family members’ names and dates of birth and death.
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society collection of cemetery abstracts gathers information from more than 300 cemeteries—some dating back to the mid-seventeenth century—located in 24 counties of New York State. Gertrude Audrey Barber, Josephine C. Frost, Lila Russell James Roney, and Mildred E. Struble, were among the transcribers. The collection includes volumes 1–13 of Josephine C. Frost’s Long Island Cemetery Transcriptions, which forms the only complete digital collection of this material available anywhere.
You may be able to uncover the following information about your ancestor:
There are also notes from an undertaker found in Deaths and Cemetery Inscriptions, Poundridge, Westchester County, NY—Accounts of an unnamed undertaker, 1860–1871; tombstone records of eighteen cemeteries, which provides details about the burials, including information on the type of coffin used and the cost of burial.
In the Useful Links & Resources section, there is a link to the searchable version of these cemetery records.