Green-Wood Cemetery Digitizing 1840-1937 Burial Registry

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded The Green-Wood Historic Fund a prestigious Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant to create a digitized and searchable database of the hand-written records of all interments at Green-Wood in its first century of operation.

The Burial Registry, as it is known, comprises sixty extraordinary cloth-bound volumes with detailed information of every burial — 438,180 in total — that took place at Green-Wood between 1840 and 1937.

The $144,490 NEH grant will allow The Green-Wood Historic Fund to transcribe every burial record in the registry and to create a searchable index that will available on Green-Wood’s website.

Photo of Green-Wood Cemetery provided.