Guide to Historic Town of Oyster Bay Cemeteries

Town Historian John Hammond of Oyster Bay, New York has released a guide for genealogists called “Historic Cemeteries of Oyster Bay”. Cemeteries are an important resource for many people delving into genealogy, and John has done the leg work by documenting every known pre-1920 cemetery in the Town.

The guide includes a list of 121 cemeteries, some of which no longer exist and some of which are still active, and where transcription records can be found. The listing is done first by present day locality and then alphabetically by the most commonly known name. The graves of several thousand individuals can be looked up.

You can read more about this new resource at: http://www.northender.com/northend_news_details.jsp?id=1262.

Comments

[Colin Colehour]

This is great info for the rest of us. I wonder if he would also put his information online at places like Findagrave.com to add to the pool of cemetery info.

[Miriam Margolyes]

Sadly, no Jewish cemeteries listed.

[Wayne Townsend]

Wow, this is great! My original Townsend ancestors settled in the Oyster Bay area. This information will be a great help to my research. Bye the way, if anyone needs Western Canadian information I am willing to try and help.
Happy Hunting everyone.

[Happy Dae]

Hold the phone! Wayne, you have Townsend ancestors from Oyster Bay, too? We need to collaborate! You can email to me from my website.

Happy Dae.
http://www.ShoeStringGenealogy.com/ssg1.htm

[Lou Daly]

Unfortunately, the ground burials at Plainlawn Cemetery in Hicksville (no. 36) are not included. This list is only for interments in the mausoleum (a mausoleum is an above ground structure where the caskets are placed in sections of a 'wall', not buried in the ground) so none of my Augustins, Freitags, Taliaferros or Hiscocks are listed even though they are buried at that cemetery. Not even the Heitz family for whom the cemetery was originally named, are on this list.