Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Chautauqua County, New York. Official Website History Most of Chautauqua County was held by the Erie people prior to the Beaver Wars in the 1650s. French forces traversed the territory beginning in 1615. The Seneca Nation conquered the territory during the Beaver Wars and held it through the next century until siding with the Bri...
Wikipedia The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education is a seven-year medical program (B.S./M.D.) of the CUNY Medical School at The City College of the City University of New York in New York City. It offers an integrated baccalaureate education with preclinical medical education and has a twofold mission: to expand access to medical careers among inner-city youths, particularly among under...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Herkimer County, New York. Official Website Herkimer County is named after Brig. Gen. Nicholas Herkimer . It was formed from parts of Montgomery, Otsego and Tioga counties. Adjacent Counties St. Lawrence County Hamilton County Fulton County Montgomery County Otsego County Oneida County
Wikipedia The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest bridges of either type in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. It has a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m), and was the first steel-wire suspension bridge constructed. It was originally referred to a...
The Old Lancaster Cemetery resides in Willard, Seneca, New York. Many of the graves are from the late eighteenth century to mid nineteenth century. Most of those laid to rest here were the descendants of Dutch settlers. The cemetery is now over grown and the stones no longer standing upright.
Crawford Cemetery resides on the outer limits of the City of Salamanca. It is overseen by the Crawford Cemetery Association, RD 1 Box 144 Salamanca, NY 14779. Find a Grave Official Website
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Buffalo, New York.= Official Website = Overview Buffalo is the county seat of Erie County and is on the border of Canada and the United States and, thus, is a major corridor for commerce and transportation.The Buffalo area was inhabited before the 17th century by the Native American Iroquois tribe and later by French colonizers. The c...
This cemetery is located on Quackenbush Road, Grand Gorge, Delaware County, New York. It's also known as Grand Gorge Cemetery . Find a Grave
People of the Great Swamp The Cayuga (Cayuga: Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ, "People of the Great Swamp") are one of the five original constituents of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), a confederacy of Native Americans in New York. The Cayuga homeland lies in the Finger Lakes region along Cayuga Lake, between their league neighbors, the Onondaga to the east and the Seneca to the west. Today, Cayuga people belong t...
This project is for those who have passed and been laid to rest in Wildwood Cemetery, Salamanca, Cattaraugus, New York- on Seneca Nation of Indians Territory. This large cemetery is still active. The earliest burials date from the 1850s and continue through the present. Managed by: City Of Salamana Department of Public Works, 241 Rochester St, Salamanca NY 14779
This project is for those buried in Brownville Cemetery, Brownville, Jefferson County, New York. Find a Grave Billion Graves
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Genesee County, New York. Official Website History The archaeological record at the Hiscock Site, in Byron, New York goes back to the Ice Age. Researchers have found a variety of manmade tools, ceramics, metal, and leather, along with a mastodon jaw, tusks, and teeth, and assorted animal bones, indicating long occupation of the s...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Suffolk County, New York. Official Website History Suffolk County was part of the Connecticut Colony before becoming an original county of the Province of New York, one of twelve created in 1683. From 1664 until 1683 it had been the East Riding of Yorkshire. Its boundaries were essentially the same as at present, with only minor c...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Schenectady County, New York. Official Website This area of the river valley was historically occupied by the Mohawk people, the easternmost of the Five Nations comprising the Iroquois Confederacy or Haudenosaunee. They cultivated maize fields in the flats along the Mohawk River and had villages in the hills. European settlement st...
This cemetery is located on 259 Dutchtown Road, Ouaquaga, Broome County, New York. Find a Grave
The Knox Cemetery is a beautiful and sightly burial place, possessing many advantages. The cemetery company controlling it was organized in 1874, and the cemetery was dedicated by the Rev. Mr. Robinson, August 8, that year. The body of Lieutenant Michael P. Barclay, the same person listed in other history notes, under the name of "Michael Henry Barckley," was the first one buried in Knox cemete...
This cemetery is located on Clyde Street, Gloversville, Fulton County, New York. Find a Grave
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Islip, Suffolk County, New York. Official Website Matthias Nicoll relocated to New York from Islip, Northamptonshire, England, in 1664. His son, William Nicoll, became a royal patentee of the east end of what is now the Town of Islip, and his domain reached from East Islip to Bayport and included Sayville, West Sayville, Oakdale, Great...
King Cemetery resides in Northampton, Fulton County, New York. Burials with stones/markers intact date from the 1800s; however, there were earlier burials recorded in the cemetery. King Cemetery is still active. The original cemetery began with land which Henry King and son, John King settled and were eventually buried in. The cemetery contains several graves of those who fought in the Revoluti...
This cemetery is located on Albany Avenue/CR 21, Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York. Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on 3298 White Road, Cayuga County, New York. Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on 1924 NY-12, Binghamton, Broome County, New York. Find a Grave
Jolls Cemetery resides in Perrysburg, Cattaraugus County, New York. Also known as Jolls Burying Ground, some of the burials belong to residents of the Gowanda State Hospital as well as other New York State hospitals and development centers. Burials date from the 1820s through the present. The cemetery is still active. Find a Grave Painted Hills Genealogy
The cemetery is just south of Route 32 in the hamlet of Feura Bush, on Old Quarry Road, in Albany County, New York. Find a Grave
This cemetery is located in the Town of Evans, at the intersection of Route 5 and Sturgeon Point Road, Jerusalem Corners, Erie County, New York. It's also known as Evans Cemetery , East Evans Cemetery and First Church of Evans Cemetery . Find a Grave Roots Web