The Green-Wood Cemetery
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Green-Wood’s archives are comprised primarily of institutional records produced by cemetery staff as a result of day-to-day business activities conducted from its founding in 1838 to the present. As a result of Green-Wood’s long and venerable history, the archives are abundant with original source materials documenting the creation, development, and activities of The Green-Wood Cemetery as well as its permanent residents.
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- The search engine looks for records containing every term you submit.
- Search By Phrase
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- Use double quotes around your search query. (e.g "Festival of Contemporary Arts")
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- Use a minus sign before a term you want to omit from your results. (e.g. 'bass -fish' finds bass guitars but not bass fishing.)
- Browse by collection title, subject, name, or classification.
The records are a vast store of genealogical and historical information, including heirship records, burial orders, lot records, family correspondence, and affidavits.
The finding aids in this database represent only a portion of the materials held by the Green-Wood Archives. For additional information, please email archives@green-wood.com.
The "Search" function at top left of this page allows researchers to conduct keyword searches of finding aid titles and descriptions or to search within the "box lists" of all the finding aids. By using the "Browse" functions at top right of this page, researchers may quickly view an alphabetical listing of all the collections available through the database. For additional search techniques see below: