Frederick Douglass Memorial Park is proud to share access to a searchable database of detailed burial records from 1935 to 1958. Recorded in a series of handwritten ledgers updated daily by our cemetery administrators, these records contain name, interment date, and location in the Cemetery. Each record includes age at death in years, months, and days; cause of death; place of birth; most recent street address; marital status, name of the undertaker, and other data points.
The Staten Island Museum has partnered with Access, Collaboration, and Equity in Genealogy Initiative (ACEGen) to make collections about local history more accessible to the public.
ACEGen is a partnership among the Richard B. Dickenson Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (SIAAHGS) and Frederick Douglass Memorial Park to digitize burial records dating back to the cemetery’s founding in the 1930s. ACEGen will also make city directories from the museum’s collection directly accessible to the public online and pilot digitizing key collections of records from communities that have been under-represented in the public record.
Records digitized by ACEGen are currently available on Internet Archive. However, newly digitized handwritten records will need transcription to become more easily readable, searchable, and accessible. Become a volunteer transcriber and help make our history accessible.
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