The DEAD DO NOT REST in these CEMETERIES Brooklyn Graves that Have Been Opened. Some Account of Where Our Forefathers Were Buried - How Their Bodies Have Been Removed- Old Cemeteries Removed by Law-

G H O S T S From ghoulies and ghosties And long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!

BURIAL INDEX

by Cemetery

CEMETERIES	Brooklyn Area Resting Places
Bayview-New York Cemetery	Where to write
BRANCH EVERGREEN	Map of Sections
Bushwick Dutch Reformed Cemetery	Bushwick btwn Conselyea & Skillman
Calvary Cemetery	History
Calvary Cemetery	MAP
Canarsie Cemetery	"In 1843 John Remsen donated land to the town of Flatlands to be used as a burial ground located off Church Lane. (formerly known as The Road to Lotts' House"). It was later called the "Canarsie Cemetery".
Roman Catholic Cemeteries	List & How to get Genealogical Info
Cemeteries..In and around Brooklyn	Part of NY Genweb Site
Citizen's Union Cemetery	A little history
Evergreens Cemetery	Map
Cornell Cemetery	About Cornell or Burying Ground Cemetery
First Reformed Church of Flatbush	1906 Article. FOR YEARS AN OLD LANDMARK, HAS A REMARKABLE HISTORY

Green-Wood Cemetery	1850 MAP
Green-Wood Cemetery	1872 MAP
Green-Wood Cemetery	New!! on-line search
Green-wood Cemetery...New York's Buried Treasure	Index of Names (Click on Burial Search)

Green-wood Cemetery..Transcriptions GRAVESTONE INSCRIPTIONS Family History Center (FHC) Film *017533 Done in 1932, covers 329 pages and filmed for the FHC in 1941.

HART ISLAND POTTERS FIELD (Kings Cty Potter's Field was in Flatbush. Its called the Kings City Farm.)

"The Common Dust of POTTER'S FIELD" New York City and its bodies politic, 1800-1860 by Thomas Bahde Discusses the city's various Potter's Field burial grounds over the years, from the earliest one in Washington Square to the present one on Hart Island. It also has a map from 1863 showing Randalls and Ward islands as they looked before being merged in the 1930s, along with the locations of the orphanage, hospital and schools known as The Nursery and the reform school known as the House of Refuge.

The City Cemetery	Located on Hart's Island. Where to locate records
Holy Cross Cemetery aka Cemetery of the Holy Cross aka Flatbush Cemetery..Est.1849	Map
Jewish Cemeteries	NYC - Metro area MAP
Jewish Cemeteries	NYC - Metro area Names & Address
International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies - Cemetery Project	Includes BROOKLYN- BRONX- MANHATTAN- QUEENS- STATEN ISLAND
A Map of New York Area Jewish	Does NOT include those in New Jersey, Staten Island or Long Island
Jewish Cemeteries	Another site for New York area. contains information for 137 cemeteries, and links to Yahoo! Maps - Driving Directions
Kings Park Center	Cemetery Information.
Naval Yard Cemetery	Where was it?
New Lots Cemetery	Where is it? here to write
Prospect Cemetery..Jamaica	Index..Compiled in 1910
Prospect Cemetery	2003 Article..Restoration
Prospect Cemetery..	Headstones & where to write to help Restore
Sailor's Snug Harbor Cemetery	Where to write for info
St. John's Cemetery..Middle Village, Queens	Photo of sections
United Hebrew Cemetery	Info for inquiries
Washington Cemetery	Map showing the location of

Catholic Cemeteries

Locate a Loved One search engine. A work In Progress) Enter your loved one's information to get location information such as crypts / niches, section, row, and grave number. St. John Cemetery - Middle Village St. Charles / Resurrection Cemeteries - Farmingdale Mount St. Mary - Flushing Holy Cross Cemetery - Brooklyn

Paper Trails...Cemetery	Listings of Cemetery during different years
Green-Wood Cemetery	MARSHALL listings
Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Cemetery Commack, New York.	Names From Gravestones at Compiled by John A. Drobnicki

The New York Marble Cemetery Inc. "sometimes called the Second Avenue Cemetery, is a small burying ground in lower Manhattan. Most of the 2,000 interments took place btwn 1830 & 1870. All burials are in 156 underground vaults of solid white Tuckahoe marble." Anne Brown

Potter's Field..A Historical Resume

Manhattan & area Cemeteries

Forgotten Cemeteries..All Boroughs

African Burial Grounds..2003 Article..Reinterment of Slaves

Mount Carmel Cemetery, Ridgewood, NY Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, NY Searching Cemetery Data in One Step

Queens The Cemetery Belt..Why does Queens have so many cemeteries? Answers go back to mid-1800s Manhattan

History of St. John's Cemetery..Middle Village, Queens County

1832 Long Island RURAL Cemetery..Map

QUEENS Private & Family Cemeteries..Map showing where they are in Queens

Description of Private and Family Cemetery in the Borough of Queens Old Newtown Cemetery Newtown Burroughs Cemetery Newtown Moore Cemetery Woodside Gorsline Cemetery Queens Boulevard Riker Cemetery Bowery Bay Luyster Cemetery Bowery Bay Lawrence Cemetery Steinway Rapelye Cemetery Astoria Mott Cemetery Maspeth Brinckerhoff Cemetery Black Stump Lawrence Cemetery Whitestone Indian Cemetery Little Neck Colored Cemetery (Burn) Flushing Wyckoff-Snedeker Cemetery Brooklyn Manor Southside Burial ground Aqueduct Cemetery on Duryea farm Newtown Colored Cemetery (Rantus) Jamaica Remson Cemetery Newtown Cornell Cemetery Little Neck Alsop Cemetery Woodside Cumberson Cemetery Woodside Cemetery on Pullis farm Nassau Heights Willett cemetery (Cedar Grove Cemetery) Flushing ILLUSTRATIONS Lawrence Arms Stone of Aeltje Brinckerhoff Riker inscriptions Stone of Content Titus

Staten Island (Richmond County) Cemeteries
Staten Island Gravestone Inscriptions The Sylvan Grove Merrell and Hillside Cemeteries in the former town of Northfield Church of the Ascension, Staten Island Fountain Cemeteries in the former town of Castleton Copied in 1923, by William T. Davis, Charles W. Leng, and Royden W. Vosburgh. Photographs by William T. Davis
Staten Island Gravestone Inscriptions Bethel, West Baptist Church, St. Luke's Additions Vaughan Cemeteries in the former town of Northfield. Marine Cemetery (Quarantine Hospital) in the former town of Castleton, (now in the Borough of Richmond, City of New York. ) Copied in 1924, by William T. Davis, Charles W. Leng, and Royden W. Vosburgh. Photographs by William T. Davis

Long Island Cemeteries	Wonderful Private & Public Lists of Burials
NASSAU Cemteries	Listings and you can add your interments
Nassau County Genexchange	Listings

LOTT Family Burial Ground..Transcribed by Jospehine C. FROST

PARSON'S Burying Ground..Transcribed by Jospehine C. FROST

New Lotts 'Old' Burying Ground, Brooklyn..Transcribed by Jospehine C. FROST

New Lotts 'New' Burying Ground, Brooklyn..Transcribed by Jospehine C. FROST

St. John's Lutheran Cemetery, New Utrecht (aka New Utrecht Cemetery)..Transcribed by Jospehine C. FROST

Oldest Burial Ground in Town of Hempstead..History & Interrments years

Old Wantagh..4 Cemeteries of Jerusalem

JACKSON CEMETERY

JERUSALEM SOCIETY OF FRIENDS CEMETERY

OLD BURYING GROUND

RIERSON BURIAL PLOT

ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM CEMETERY INC.

Bethpage & Farmingdale Cemeteries Town of Oyster Bay Queens County, now Nassau County Long Island, New York Three Cemeteries, 1832-1898 By: William Applebie Eardeley, M. A. 1918

Old Burying Ground..Huntington, L.I.

Huntington Rural Cemetery..1851

The Presbyterian Church in Elmont

525 Elmont Road P.O. Box 466 Elmont, New York 11003-0466 This database contains an index of names of known persons interred in the church cemetery transcribed from the monuments.

Undertakers	Lain's Directory..1879
American Cemetery & Mortuary	Resource for Records
Brooklyn Funeral Homes	Current with their locations
Current List of Funeral Homes	NY, Bronx, Bklyn, Queens, Long Island Area, address & Phone

Joseph Coen	Archivist for the Archdiocese of Brooklyn
Catholic Cemetery	Information on requesting Cemetery look-ups
Suffolk County Cemetery	Current List
Amityville / Babylon Cemeteries	Will be updated
FIND A GRAVE	Searchable site
NASSAU County Cemetery List	Nancy Coleman & Nassau Co.
SUFFOLK County Cemetery List	David Roberts & Suffolk Co.
U. S. Geological Survey Web Site	Locator.Cemetery/towns/Historic buildings/etc.
Gravestone Markings	Meanings
1879 Undertakers	Lain's Directory

National Cemetery Administration...Dept. of Veterans Affairs

Click on "National Gravesite Locator," and you can search for those buried in military cemeteries

CEMETERY PHOTOGRAPHS..	Specializing in church and cemetery photographs especially in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and Manhattan
NEW YORK CITY CEMETERY RESEARCH AND PHOTOGRAPHY	New York City Cemetery Research and Photography

In the opinion of the administrator of the Brooklyn Website:
I highly reccomend the cemetery book :

The GRAVEYARD SHIFT, A guide to New York City and area Cemeteries.
Cemeteries that have come and gone, changed names, changed burials..
By: Caroloee Inskeep
Available thru Ancestry.com.
You can use the link below if you would like to look further. 
It will take you to the main page and click on BOOKS.
(By using the Brooklyn Site, it helps keep the Bklyn Pages running.)




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