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Below you will find a complete list of each online collection. Click the title of each collection to view a full description and search the collection individually.

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Collection Close-Ups – Every month we hold a webinar on one or more of our collections, explaining what you can find and how you can search.

Released February 03!

Albany County Cemetery Records

Location
Albany County
Collection Category
Cemetery
Collection Type
Image Browse
Body

This collection contains transcribed gravestone inscriptions from cemeteries in Albany County, New York. Researchers can browse digital images of these records, but they cannot currently be searched. The collection page contains a complete list of all cemeteries available, including waypoint links to the records of each cemetery.

Released February 04!

Allegany County Cemetery Records

Location
Allegany County
Collection Category
Cemetery
Collection Type
Image Browse
Body

Transcribed gravestone inscriptions from cemeteries in Allegany County, New York. Researchers can browse digital images of these records, but they cannot currently be searched. The collection page contains a complete list of all cemeteries available, including waypoint links to view images from each cemetery.

Released February 05!

Cattaraugus County Cemetery Records

Location
Cattaraugus County
Collection Category
Cemetery
Collection Type
Image Browse
Body

Transcribed gravestone inscriptions from cemeteries in Cattaraugus County, New York. Researchers can browse digital images of these records, but they cannot currently be searched. The collection page contains a complete list of all cemeteries available, including waypoint links to view images from each cemetery.

Released January 19!

Danby Rural Cemetery

Location
Tompkins County
Collection Category
Cemetery
Digitize New York
Collection Type
Indexed
Body

This collection consists of a searchable index of the interred at Danby Rural Cemetery, an active cemetery in Tompkins County, New York. It includes individuals with dates of death from the early 19th century through 1951. In addition to a searchable index of names, this rich dataset includes...

Released February 05!

Dutchess County Cemetery Records

Location
Dutchess County
Collection Category
Cemetery
Collection Type
Image Browse
Body

Gravestone inscriptions from cemeteries in Dutchess County, New York. Researchers can browse digital images of these records, but they cannot currently be searched. The collection page contains a complete list of all cemeteries available, including waypoint links to view images from each cemetery.

Released February 05!

Erie County Cemetery Records

Location
Erie County
Collection Category
Cemetery
Collection Type
Image Browse
Body

Transcribed gravestone inscriptions from cemeteries in Erie County, New York. Researchers can browse digital images of these records, but they cannot currently be searched. The collection page contains a complete list of all cemeteries available, including waypoint links to view images from each cemetery.

Released July 03!

Fairchild Cemetery Manual: a Reliable Guide to the Cemeteries of Greater New York and Vicinity

Location
Suffolk County
Nassau County
Kings County
Richmond County
Queens County
New York County
Rockland County
Westchester County
Putnam County
Orange County
Collection Category
Cemetery
Collection Type
OCR
Body

This guide was researched and compiled in 1910 by Fairchild Sons, a funeral home located in Brooklyn, NY. It contains a wide range of information pertaining to decease and burial, including a detailed survey of all cemeteries within 50 miles of New York City, laws relating to cemeteries, and indices...

Released February 06!

Fulton County Cemetery Records

Location
Fulton County
Collection Category
Cemetery
Collection Type
Image Browse
Body

Transcribed gravestone inscriptions from cemeteries located in Fulton County, New York. Researchers can browse digital images of these records, but they cannot currently be searched. The collection page contains a complete list of all cemeteries available, including waypoint links to view images from each cemetery.

Released February 06!

Kings County Cemetery Records

Location
Kings County
Collection Category
Cemetery
Collection Type
Text & Images
Body

Transcribed gravestone inscriptions from cemeteries in Kings County, New York. Some volumes are searchable, others can only be browsed by image. The collection page contains a complete list of all congregations available, including waypoint links to images from each church.

Released February 07!

Long Island Cemetery Records

Location
Nassau County
Suffolk County
Collection Category
Cemetery
Collection Type
Image Browse
Body

Transcribed gravestone inscriptions from cemeteries on Long Island, in both Nassau and Suffolk counties. Researchers can browse digital images of these records, but they cannot currently be searched. The collection page contains a complete list of all cemeteries available, including waypoint links to view images from each cemetery.

Released February 07!

Montgomery County Cemetery Records

Location
Montgomery County
Collection Category
Cemetery
Collection Type
OCR
Body

Transcribed gravestones inscriptions from cemeteries in Montgomery County, New York. Researchers can search these records by text and can browse digital images. The collection page contains a complete list of all cemeteries available, including waypoint links to view images from each cemetery.

Released February 07!

Nassau County Cemetery Records

Location
Nassau County
Collection Category
Cemetery
Collection Type
Image Browse
Body

Transcribed gravestone inscriptions from cemeteries in Nassau County, New York. Researchers can browse digital images of these records, but they cannot currently be searched. The collection page contains a complete list of all cemeteries available, including waypoint links to view images from each cemetery.

Released February 07!

New York County Cemetery Records

Location
New York County
Collection Category
Cemetery
Collection Type
Image Browse
Body

Cemetery records from New York County, New York. Researchers can browse digital images of these records, but they cannot currently be searched. The collection page contains a complete list of all cemeteries available, including waypoint links to view images from each cemetery.

Released February 07!

New York County Harlem Cemetery Disinterments

Location
New York County
Collection Category
Cemetery
Collection Type
Image Browse
Body

These records contain information about disinterments and the chartering of what would become Harlem. Along with lists of the vaults disinterred and moved between 1869 and 1875, researchers will find a letter and a legal document that chartered New Harlem in 1667. The collection description contains detailed information on the these records and their historical significance.

Released February 11!

Oneida County Cemetery Records

Location
Oneida County
Collection Category
Cemetery
Collection Type
Image Browse
Body

Transcribed gravestone inscriptions from cemeteries in Oneida County, New York. Researchers can browse digital images of these records, but they cannot currently be searched. The collection page contains a complete list of all cemeteries available, including waypoint links to view images from each cemetery.