New York City Cemetery Records

New York City Records
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New York City Records
Long Island National Cemetery.

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Resources

a. NYC cemeteries are almost all on Long Island (Brooklyn or Queens). There are almost no burials in Manhattan.
b. In 1822 Manhattan outlawed burials below Canal Street, and in 1851 practically outlawed burials within Manhattan.
c. NYC cemeteries kept wonderful records and survive back to about 1850 (depending on the cemetery).
d. NYC cemeteries records, for the most part, have not been microfilmed.
e. When you write to a cemetery ask for a list of everyone buried in the plot, who bought the plot and when, and the address at which the people died.
f. NYC cemetery records often include vital clues to trace the origin of a family.

Books in the FamilySearch Library collection about the cemeteries of New York City (Copies of these books can be ordered at U.S. county libraries through Inter-Library Loan.)

Ardolina, Rosemary Muscarella. Old Calvary Cemetery: New Yorkers Carved in Stone. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, c1996. FS Library book: US/Can 974.7243 V3a. This is a good source for Catholic and Irish burials.

Ardolina, Rosemary Muscarella. Second Calvary Cemetery: New Yorkers Carved in Stone. Floral Park, N.Y. : Delia Publications, c2000. FS Library book: US/Can 974.7243 V3a. This is a good source for Catholic and Irish burials.

Inskeep, Carolee. The Graveyard Shift: A Family Historian’s Guide to New York City Cemeteries. Orem, UT: Ancestry, 2000. FS Library book: US/Can 974.71 V34i. This is the definitive work on New York City Cemeteries and how to find their records.

Pool, David de Sola. Portraits Etched in Stone: Early Jewish Settlers, 1682-1831. New York: Columbia University Press, 1952. FS Library 974.71 F2p.

Sawyer, Ray C. Graveyard inscriptions of Trinity Cemetery, New York City, N.Y. Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1941, Microfilm of typescripts (2 vols.) made in 1931 in possession of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York City. FS Library Film 17777 item 4.

Silinonte, Joseph Michael. Tombstones of the Irish born: Cemetery of the Holy Cross, Flatbush, Brooklyn, [1850-1980]. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, c1994. FS Library 974.723/B1 V3.

Stokes, Isaac Newton Phelps. The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909, 6 Vols. New York: Arno Press, 1967, Reprint of books published in 1915-1928 by R. H. Dodd in New York. FS Library 974.71 H2st. Includes a list of early New York City cemeteries in vol. 3, p. 927.