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I have always found that the anti-Jersey attitude most often comes from people from places like Ohio and Nebraska, that have barely lived in NYC a year and now they think of themselves as “New Yorkers”.
Bingo!
Barely one year after a friend of mine moved from Cincinnati to NYC, he was already "looking down his nose" at me because I lived in NJ. A quick refresher about my family's long history in NYC--dating back to the 1860s--as well as the fact that we had only moved to NJ about 16 years earlier, soon put a stop to his newly-created "proud New Yorker" attitude.
As other poster mentioned it began as way to find "historical" burials, but now has morphed into a huge database of so much more.
It covers now many cemeteries or whatever sites including recent burials as well. You can find your great uncle Vincent who died in 1916 as well as your cousin Vincent who died in 2006. Think of them as "Google" for burials.
IIRC they have "staff" that canvas and or are canvasing cemeteries to make accurate lists. This and it seems to me at least they are either getting information directly from the major funeral home companies (such as Legacy), or DOD databases. https://www.findagrave.com/
As other poster mentioned it began as way to find "historical" burials, but now has morphed into a huge database of so much more.
It covers now nearly every cemetery or so forth in the USA and or recent burials as well. You can find your great uncle Vincent who died in 1916 as well as your cousin Vincent who died in 2006. Think of them as "Google" for burials.
IIRC they have "staff" that canvas and or are canvasing cemeteries to make accurate lists. This and it seems to me at least they are either getting information directly from the major funeral home companies (such as Legacy), or DOD databases. https://www.findagrave.com/
Yup. My daughter is a descendant of one of the founders of what is now Portland, ME, on her father's side. (That and $2.75 will get her a ride on the NYC Subway ) My sister found her ancestor's grave from the 1600s.
Need to revitalized the bombed out cities to make room for them vs destroying open space for mc mansions.
Sadly "urban renewal" or slum clearance if you will has gotten a bad name since the 1960's or so. Instead local natives seem to prefer living in heck holes rather than *gasp* gentrification.
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