New York City Cemetery Records

Online Records

 * 1697-1947 Churchyards of Trinity Parish in the City of New York, 1697-1947 at FamilySearch; digital book
 * 1742-1892 Cemetery and church records, New Dorp, Richmond County, New York, 1742-1892 at FamilySearch; images only +++
 * 1790-1871 Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church on Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., in the former town of Northfield and now the Reformed Church at Port Richmond in the Borough of Richmond, City of New York, 1790-1871 at FamilySearch; images +++
 * 1798 Report of the Medical Committee (New York, New York) at FamilySearch; images only +++
 * 1798-1876 Records of the Woodrow Methodist Episcopal Church at Woodrow, Staten Island, in Richmond County, N.Y. ... 1798-1876 at FamilySearch; images only +++
 * 1802-1881 Records of the Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church at New Springville, Staten Island, in Richmond County, N.Y. ... 1802-1881 at FamilySearch; images only +++
 * 1854-1886 Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church at Richmond, Staten Island, in Richmond County, N.Y. ... 1854-1886 at FamilySearch; images only +++
 * 1844-1877 Records of St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church at Rossville, Staten Island, Richmond Co., N.Y. ... 1844-1877 at FamilySearch; images only +++
 * 1849-1919 Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, Westfield, Staten Island, at Huguenot ... 1849-1919 at FamilySearch; images only +++
 * Burials in Springfield Cemetery, Springfield, L.I., N.Y. at FamilySearch; images only
 * Cemetery situated 100 yards west, on the Bushwick road adjoining the farm of Uncle Johannas at FamilySearch; images only +++
 * at FamilySearch; index and images +++
 * Green-Wood Cemetery: burial database
 * In old New York : the Irish dead in Trinity and St. Paul's churchyards at FamilySearch; digital book
 * Inscriptions from Reformed Dutch Church Yard at Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York at FamilySearch; images +++
 * Inscriptions of St. Anne's Churchyard, also Old Cemetery, New York City at FamilySearch; images +++
 * List of vault owners, Marble Cemetery, New York City at FamilySearch; index and images +++
 * The Nagle-Dyckman-Vermilye Cemetery : West 214 Street & 10th Avenue, anciently known as "Kings Bridge", now known as "The Dyckman Section, New York City" at FamilySearch; images +++
 * New York Marble Cemetery, 2nd Avenue interments and subscriptions, ca. 1830-1906 at FamilySearch; images +++
 * Record of burials in the Dutch Church, New York City, Holland Society of New York, 1899, p. 139-211 at FamilySearch; images +++
 * Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in Tompkinsville ... now the Reformed Church, Brighton Heights, in the borough of Richmond at FamilySearch; images +++
 * [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/269090?availability=Family%20History%20Library

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 Family History 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. FHL 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. FHL 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. FHL 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. FHL 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. FHL 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. FHL 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. FHL 974.71 H2st. Includes a list of early New York City cemeteries in vol. 3, p. 927.