With the warmer weather, tours are being offered in April at some of the larger cemeteries in New York. Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx will offer a “Connection to the Titanic” tour on Sunday, April 14. Woodlawn is the final resting place to a dozen
Friends of the Lakeview Cemetery in Patchogue will be having a clean-up day on Saturday, April 6 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Work will include picking up leaves, litter and tree limbs, and removing invasive plants as part of the group’s Union Cemetery Restoration
Many New York public libraries will be offering a variety of genealogy programs in the first half of April. Week of April 1-6 The Walworth Seeley Public Library (Wayne County) provides genealogy assistance every Wednesday from 2-4 p.m. For more information, go to: https://www.walworthlibrary.org/genealogy-local-history. The
The New York State Library will be offering two onsite walking tours of its genealogy collections in April. Thursday, April 4 from noon to 1 p.m. and Friday, April 19 from 1 to 2 p.m. The New York State Library is a treasure chest of
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, located in New York City, will be opening a new Central New York Digitization Center later this spring in Syracuse, NY. Digitization volunteers will scan genealogical documents and records from organizations that need help with preserving and digitizing
