Green-Wood Cemetery, located in Brooklyn, has recently created a new searchable database of detailed burial records from 1840 to 1937. This is different from Green-Wood’s Burial Search because the information is from a series of handwritten ledgers updated daily by Cemetery administrators over its first
The Green-Wood Cemetery will be presenting a trolley tour of “Brooklyn’s Black Trailblazers” on Saturday, Feb. 7 at 1 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 28 at 10 a.m. This trolley tour spotlights the Black pioneers of Brooklyn that are buried in Green-Wood Cemetery. You’ll visit the
Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx will have a World War I Veterans Walking Tour on Saturday, Nov. 9 at 11 a.m. Woodlawn is the final resting place of veterans and dependents of every conflict stretching back to the American Revolution. In honor of Veterans’ Day,
In honor of Niskayuna Reformed Church’s 275th Anniversary, the History and Archives committee will be leading two 45-minute walking tours of the Niskayuna Reformed Cemetery on Saturday, Oct. 25 at 10 and 11:30 a.m. The tours will focus on the old section, highlighting its development,
St. Michael the Archangel Church in Troy is looking for volunteers to help clean and restore the headstones of the Sisters of St. Joseph. Since 2017 the team has restored over 70 graves, dating back several decades. There will be clean-up meetings on Sundays, Oct.
