The graveyard shift : a family historian's guide to New York City cemeteries / Carolee Inskeep.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Inskeep, Carolee R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cemeteries--New York (State)--New York--Directories.

Cemeteries.

Cemeteries--New York (State)--New York--History.

New York (N.Y.)--History, Local.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--Genealogy--Directories.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

directories.

Family histories.

Directories.

History.

Local history.

Physical Description:

xiv, 272 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Orem, Utah : Ancestry, ©2000.

Summary:

Trying to find some peace in the "City That Never Sleeps" has always been difficult for New Yorkers -- even dead New Yorkers. Rapid development, rising property values, lack of space, health concerns, and government regulation have caused the dead to be moved from one graveyard to the next.

The Graveyard Shift is a guide to the more than 300 former and still-existing cemeteries in New York City. It describes each burial place, including their sometimes restless histories. For each cemetery the book lists:

- Years of use.

Gravestones and cemetery markers sometimes provide information about ancestors that can't be found anywhere else. The bland information found on a death certificate may never match tombstone decorations, epitaphs, and the atmosphere of a burial place. The Graveyard Shift could guide you to the resting place of an ancestor whose life and death were intertwined with the City That Never Sleeps.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-245) and index.

ISBN:

0916489892

9780916489892

OCLC:

42726230