Two New York cemeteries groups, in opposite parts of the state, will be hosting work projects this week. Friends of Lakeview Cemeteries, located in Patchogue (Suffolk County) will host its first weekly headstone cleaning event tomorrow, June 18 at 10 a.m. This will be an
New York State Historic Newspapers Project continues to add new titles. In the first third of 2025, 14 new titles and 239,841 pages were added to the database. New Titles: Chemung County: The Husbandman, Elmira 26 August 1874 – 16 January 1884 Delaware County: Delaware
The Town of Islip will celebrate Juneteenth by holding a ceremony to honor Civil War Veterans on Thursday, June 19 at 4 pm at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore. The ceremony will rededicate the final resting places of African American soldiers, Private William Treadwell and
This is a continuing series of New York historical societies that also provide genealogy assistance. Dutchess: Dutchess County Historical Society – Rhinebeck – https://dchsny.org/ Directories, church records, maps, yearbooks, family paper, cemetery records Contact : https://dchsny.org/ask/ Orange: Woodbury Historical Society – https://woodburyhistoricalsociety.org/index.html Family cards, obituaries, family genealogy books,
There will be a Harlem Genealogy Fair on Saturday, June 21 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 360 Lenox Avenue in Manhattan. This event is co-sponsored by The Afro American Genealogy and Historical Society Jean Sampson Scott-Greater New York Chapter and The Church of
