02:00pm - 04:00pm  Cemetery Research in the New York Area Using JGSNY's Burial Societies Database - And More

Speaker: Steve Stein One of the earliest projects of the Jewish Genealogical Society of New York was the documentation of the approximately 100 Jewish cemeteries in the New York metropolitan area. The society’s website, jgsny.org, provides extensive contact and location information about these cemeteries in the New York Metropolitan area, including links to their websites. The follow-up Burial Societies Project, begun in 1989 aimed to identify the names and locations of all Jewish burial society plots in the New York area. Included were plots belonging to landsmanshaftn, or hometown associations, whose membership often conveyed the right to be buried in a ...