For those researchers who may
have ancestors buried in major New York area cemeteries, an exciting new development began
in 2006! Many of the local Jewish cemeteries put their databases on line.
And others have followed, so that today, there are almost a million Jewish gravesites
you can research online!
The following individual cemeteries have put their lists online and you can browse them at your leisure,
either by town name or surname.
Another great research tool is Jewishdata.com; this is a fee based site that is free to members of the NY and LA Jewish Genealogy Societies. JewishData.com has tombstone photographs from: Findagrave.com is a volunteer organization begun by a gentleman who was interested in the graves of famous people; for example, they have: New Jersey (907) and New York (4,117) and California (5,703) records. Findagrave has photographs from Baron de Hirsch Cemetery on Staten Island.
To find worldwide gravesites online, go to the JewishGen
Worldwide Cemetery Database at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/cemetery/. JOWBR is a database of more than 1.4
million names and other identifying information from cemeteries and burial records worldwide,
from the earliest records to the present. Volunteers from all over the world have copied the information
from cemeteries, and many have photographed the tombstones too! All available on line and at
no charge! Just click
here
Remember also that JewishGen has hundreds of KehilaLinks web pages; these pages were written by genners like yourself; you can view the KehilaLinks directory at at http://KehilaLinks.jewishgen.org.
Also, please note that JewishGen has wonderful databases to help you in your family
research.. I would begin with the
Jewish Community Pages (there are over 5600 of them). Each page tells about the history of
the town, the governments, contains a map and wonderful
links to resources and databases. These town pages can be queried at
http://www.jewishgen.org/communities/search.asp.
Another wonderful part of JewishGen is the researcher database, where thousands of researchers
have entered their family surnames and towns; to view our JewishGen Family Finder database go to http://www.jewishgen.org/JGFF/.
New York Cemeteries Online!
Other Online Cemetery Sites
For cemetery locations and landsmanshaften in New York, the best site is the NY Jewish Genealogy Society at http://www.jgsny.org; there you will find an excellent map of the New York Cemeteries, directions and contact information, and an extensive list of burial societies (landsmanshaften).
Other Sites
Steve Lasky's excellent site, The Museum of Family History, has a cemetery project which
contains many cemetery maps. You can find them at
http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/cp-maps-ny-nj.htm.
To see a map and information about all the cemeteries on Long Island, go to the Long Island
Jewish Genealogical Society's web page at www.jgsli.org, click on site map, then cemetery project.
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If you have any questions, please email me by clicking on my name.
Phyllis Kramer New York City and
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. .
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