Contents of Webpage

• Headstone & monument inscriptions
• Obtaining cemetery records
  • Coming soon
• New York City open cemeteries
  • New York County (Manhattan)
  • Bronx County
  • Kings County (Brooklyn)
  • Queens County
  • Richmond County (Staten Island)
• New York City closed cemeteries
  • Coming soon
• Funeral home records
  • Coming Soon
• LDS filmed transcriptions
• Transcribed records online
• Bibliography

There are many different kinds of cemeteries in the New York City area.  They include:

1. The church yard cemetery, where members of a church are buried on the church grounds.

2. The church owned cemetery.  They are located in another section of the town but they are owned and operated by the church.

3. The government owned cemetery.  These are owned by all entities of government and include pauper and military cemeteries.

4. Privately owned cemetery, may be owned by a corporation and operated as a business.

5. Family cemetery.  These are usually part of the family owned land where a section is set off for burials of family members.

Determining the place of burial

Normally the death certificate states the cemetery of burial and the funeral home that handled the burial.  Other sources include US Government Geological Survey maps of the area which detail small areas, including small graveyards.

Manhattan Graveyard Situation

• 1823 - forbade all burials in a grave or vault south of Canal, Sullivan and Grand Sts

• 1851 - forbade interments south of 86th Street and prohibited the creation of new cemeteries

(due to the closing of Manhattan cemeteries in 1851, large cemeteries were build in the other boroughs to accommodate Manhattan residents, so they are included in this website)

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