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Hart Island Project

New York's City Cemetery on Hart Island occupies 101 acres in the Long Island Sound on the eastern edge of the Bronx. Since 1869, prison labor is used to bury unclaimed and unidentified New Yorkers in mass graves that are inaccessible to the public. The Hart Island Project provides access to information about the burials on Hart Island and tools for storytelling so that no one is omitted from history.

Jewish Cemeteries in the New York Metropolitan Area

Jewish Cemeteries in the New York/New Jersey Area

JGSNY Burial Society Database Project

From the Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc. (New York). A database of 10,200 entries from almost 100 cemeteries located in New York City, Long Island, Putnam County, Westchester County, and northern New Jersey. These include plots of landsmanshaftn (home town associations), synagogues, family circles, fraternal organizations and labor unions.

New York City Genealogy: Cypress Hill Cemetery, Catalogue of Proprietors

List of all the Plot Owners in Cypress Hills Cemetery as of 1880. Thousands of names.

New York City Genealogy: Greenwood Cemetery, Catalogue of Proprietors

Contains a list of plot owners (1884), with size and location of plots, for Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn. As there were restrictions on burials in New York City (Manhattan) many people from other Boroughs were buried in this mega-cemetery. Anyone with ancestor who lived in New York City should check this source.

New York City Genealogy: Marble Cemetery, Vault Owners

This booklet published in 1891 titled "The New York City Marble Cemetery, Second Street, bet. First and Second Aves," contains a report of the Trustees, a report of the Treasurer, a report of the Committee to Raise a Permanent Fund, as well as a list of names of the Vault Owners.

New York City Genealogy: St. John's Burying Ground, Transcription of Tombstones

Transcription of a newspaper article from 1892 that gave the names of those persons whose names were listed on tombstones, then found in St. John's burying Ground. This burial ground was soon to be converted into a park. 10,000 persons were said to have been buried there and though St. John's Chapel was part of Trinity Episcopal Parish, burials were open to all denominations.

New York Genealogy: Woodlawn Cemetery, Lot Owners

Here is a List of Lot Owners for Woodland Cemetery in New York City.

New York Marble Cemetery, Inc.

A cemetery of underground marble vaults on lower Manhattan with most burials between 1830 and 1870. The full interment list, a history, and some biographies are posted for 156 underground family vaults containing over 2,000 burials.

St. Paul's Chapel Churchyard

Three centuries of burials at Fulton Street, New York City.

The Political Graveyard

Trinity Churchyard

Three centuries of burials at the corner of Broadway and Wall Street, New York City.

USGS GNIS Search Results: List of Cemetery Locations in the County (Peabody GNIS Interface)

From the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).

What We Found at Hart Island, The Largest Mass Grave Site In the U.S.

By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan for Gizmodo. Hart Island is in Long Island Sound, just across the water from City Island in the Bronx, New York.