The Graveyard Shift: A Family Historian's Guide to New York City Cemeteries
Trying to find some peace in the City That Never Sleeps has always been difficult-even for dead New Yorkers. Rapid development, rising property values, a lack of space, health concerns, and government regulation have all conspired to move the dead from one graveyard to the next. The Graveyard Shift: A Family Historian's Guide to New York City Cemeteries documents the changing landscape of New York City cemeteries, telling the story behind each decision to move, as well as providing the new names and locations of each burial ground. This book, with its complete index, is an invaluable tool for anyone researching New York City ancestors.
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Book details
- Author
- Carolee Inskeep
- Imprint
- Ancestry.com, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 296
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- Travel › United States
History › United States › State & Local - Topics
- New York City history · genealogy · burial grounds · family history research · death and burial · local history
- ISBN-13
- 9780916489892
About the author
CAROLEE R. INSKEEP is a genealogical researcher and author specializing in New York City historical records. Her books include The Children’s Aid Society of New York, The New York Foundling Hospital: An Index to Its Federal, State, and Local Census Records (1870–1925), and The Graveyard Shift: A Family Historian’s Guide to New York City Cemeteries.
Inskeep’s work documents the history and relocations of New York City burial grounds and indexes census records of thousands of children associated with New York orphanages and the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century orphan train movement.