The website for the
Archdiocese of Newark (New Jersey) has placed on their website a
free, searchable index of burials at eight Catholic cemeteries. Included are:
Maryrest in Mahwah,
Gate of Heaven in East Hanover,
Holy Cross in North Arlington,
Saint Gertrude in Colonia (not North Arlington),
Holy Name in Jersey City,
Christ the King in Franklin Lakes, and
Holy Sepulchre in East Orange. In addition, there are "open houses" at some of these cemeteries in September, October, and November.
This free service is in contrast to
their usual $25 search fee.
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| Fee schedule for "genealogical research fee" as rcancem.org |
You can search by last name without specifying a cemetery. Listings appear for burials in the 1800s and 1900s along with a grave/plot number. The database does not appear to be complete, as I was able to compare the website-generated burials with my findings at these cemeteries and found several names to be missing.
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| Grave for Bosset and Loihle children at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey. |
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| For some reason, the burials shown on the stone do not appear in the online index, but Catherine was listed in triplicate. |
Cemetery records are invaluable resources in the pursuit of tracing a family's history. It is understandable that cemeteries do not have the time or the staff to allocate to locating such records, which were often not kept in an organized and clean state. I commend the cemeteries who are placing their records online for genealogical research.
You are welcome. This post was six years ago and the website of Catholic burials for the Newark Archdiocese has helped so much in uncovering family histories.
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