Burial Ledgers in the Workmen's Circle Collection (RG 575)
YIVO's Workmen's Circle Collection includes eight ledgers providing information on burials in WC plots located in ten New York metropolitan area cemeteries. Entries include name of the deceased, date of death, member/or relationship to member, and WC Branch number. More information on these Branches can be found within the Workmen's Circle Collection as well as YIVO's Landsmanshaftn Collection and the Bund Collection (RG 1400). See also the American Jewish Historical Society's Workmen's Circle Collection at the Center for Jewish History. Researchers should be aware that five of the ten cemeteries housing WC plots have online interment databases and a hyperlink to these websites is provided in the table below.
Box Number | Cemetery | Pages | Date Span |
Box 1, Vol. 1 | Beth Israel | 1-20 | 11/27/1930-08/22/1984 |
New Montefiore | 27-40 | 07/03/1934-02/11/1959 | |
New Montefiore | 155-199 | 02/12/1959-11/30/1965 | |
Mt. Zion | 41-44 | 12/05/1927-05/27/1949 | |
Mt. Moriah | 46-116 | 08/26/1936-10/09/1979 | |
Wellwood | 200-256 | 11/13/1959-10/14/1970 | |
Box 1, Vol. 2 | Mt. Carmel | 1-37 | 03/01/1947-08/29/1985 |
Mt. Hebron | 50-125 | 04/16/1958-09/19/1985 | |
Box 2, Vol. 1 | Mt. Hebron | 1-250 | 04/19/1937-03/15/1958 |
Box 3, Vol. 1 | Mt. Lebanon | 1-306 | 10/22/1922-08/13/1957 |
Box 4, Vol. 1 | Beth El (Westwood, NJ) | 1-161 | 10/07/1957-08/21/1985 |
Box 4, Vol. 2 | Mt. Lebanon | 2-94 | 01/01/1957-01/04/1987 |
Box 5, Vol. 1 | New Montefiore | no page #’s | 12/30/1973-09/11/1985 |
Beth Moses | no page #’s | 09/23/1973-08/22/1985 | |
Wellwood | no page #’s | 10/14/1973-08/28/1985 | |
Box 5, Vol. 2 | Mt. Zion | 1-69 | 02/07/1908-04/03/1958 |
Mt. Zion | 301 | 03/04/1959-01/23/1975 | |
Mt. Carmel | 69-200 | 01/18/1909-02/28/1947 | |
Mt. Hebron | 200-299 | 01/05/1920-04/18/1937 |