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Wikipedia =Hofstra University is a private, non-profit, nonsectarian institution of higher learning. Its main campus is located in the village of Hempstead, New York, United States, approximately 7 miles east of New York City. It originated in 1935 as an extension of New York University (NYU) called "Nassau College – Hofstra Memorial of New York University at Hempstead, Long Island"; in 1939, t...
Columbia University Wikipedia Columbia University in the City of New York , commonly referred to as Columbia University , is an American private Ivy League research university located in New York City, New York, United States. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges fou...
Cornell University= Cornell University ( /kɔrˈnɛl/ kor-NEL) is an American private Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, 1st President of Cornell University , the university was intended to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge—from the classics to the sciences, and from the theoreti...
New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian American research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is located at Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan. Founded in 1831, NYU is one of the largest private nonprofit institutions of American higher education.NYU was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1950. NYU counts 36 Nobel Prize winners, four Abel Priz...
Wikipedia Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in Kings County, New York. It was granted National Historic Landmark status in 2006 by the U.S. Department of the Interior.Located in Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn, it lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park, between Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Borough Park, Kensington, and Sunset Park. Paul Goldberger in The New York T...
Wikipedia Syracuse University, commonly referred to as Syracuse, 'Cuse, or SU, is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York. The institution's roots can be traced to the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary (later becoming Genesee College), founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lima, New York, in 1831. Following several years of debate over relocating the college to Syracuse, the ...
Peck Cemetery, Bedford, Westchester County, New York, USA: Find a Grave Hook Road (sect 12 Lot 8) 3 graves marked with field stones. Oldest stone - Deborah Peck wife of Robert, last stone Deborah Wescott wife of Stephen. 1st Surname Index 5/14/2021
The Seneca or Onödowá’ga:’ (pronounced: Oh-n'own-dough-wahgah) or "Great Hill People" are a group of Indigenous Iroquoian-speaking people who historically lived south of Lake Ontario, one of the five Great Lakes in North America. Their nation was the farthest to the west within the Six Nations or Iroquois League (Haudenosaunee) in New York before the American Revolution. They were the largest ...
Haudenosaunee: Who We Are The Haundenosaunee Confederacy has been in place since time immemorial. The Peacemaker was sent by the Creator to spread the Kariwiio or good mind. With the help of Aiionwatha commonly known as Hiawatha, the Peacemaker taught the laws of peace to the Haudenosaunee. Travelling from community to community they both succeeded in persuading the Chiefs of each nation to joi...
Hillside Haven Cemetery, also known as Hillside Haven Relocation Site Indian Cemetery, is located on the Seneca Allegany Reservation in the town of Cold Spring and hamlet of Steamburg, Cattaraugus, New York. Cemeteries and family plots were relocated to Hillside Haven during the 1964 Kinzua Dam Construction and later flooding of Seneca lands. Hillside also contains new plots as well. Find a G...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cattaraugus County, New York. Official Website The largely unsettled territory was the traditional homeland of the now-extinct Wenrohronon Indians and later occupied by the Seneca people, one of the five Nations of the Haudenosaunee. During the colonial era, it was claimed by at least three territories: New York Colony, Massachusett...
Salamanca resides in Cattaraugus County, New York. Salamanca is a city which is located on the Allegany Indian Reservation (Allegany Territory), in a valley between the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains. Also known as Onë:dagö:h, Salamanca is governed by the Seneca Nation of Indians of New York. Because of its continued habitation by the Seneca Nation, many believe that Salamanca is a native...
This project is part of the State of New York Portal. About the Project Please use this project to add, research, document, and discuss your ancestors from New York. You can add profiles for: People born in New York People who lived in New York People who died in New York When you find helpful resources for research, please share them here so that others can benefit. If you have pro...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Manhattan, New York County, New York. Manhattan, known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. It is the urban core of the New York metropolitan area, and coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York. Manha...
The World War II East Coast Memorial is located in Battery Park, New York City. This memorial commemorates those soldiers, sailors, Marines, coast guardsmen, merchant mariners and airmen who met their deaths in the service of their country in the western waters of the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Its axis is oriented on the Statue of Liberty. On each side of the axis are four gray granit...
Holy Cross Cemetery Lackawanna, Erie County, New York, USA Holy Cross Cemetery was officially opened in 1849 as a parish cemetery, although records show burials dating as far back as 1830. In 1853, the cemetery was expanded when Bishop John Timon borrowed $1,200 to purchase a small farm for a cemetery and consecrated 40 acres of it. For this reason, it was noted as being the "Bishop's" cemet...
Founders of the town of Southampton Please add profiles to project for the people named in bold below, and also, hyperlink them. Southold, Southampton, and East Hampton New Netherland Institute - Eastern Long Island In 1640, a group of "straitened" English pioneers left the town of Lynn in the Massachusetts Bay colony in search of land and a better life. They thought they had found it wh...
Early settlers of the town of Southold on Long Island Please add profiles listed below to the project, and also link them in the index. Feel free to add all early town residents. Southold, Southampton, and East Hampton New Netherland Institute - Eastern Long Island In 1640, a group of "straitened" English pioneers left the town of Lynn in the Massachusetts Bay colony in search of land an...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Queens or Queens County, New York. Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. It is the largest borough of New York City in area and is adjacent to the borough of Brooklyn at the western end of Long Island, with Nassau County to the east. Queens also shares water borders with ...
Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in Kings County, New York. Although Brooklyn has been a borough of New York City for more than a century, it had a long and illustrious history as an independent city until that time. In 1890, the last census before it was annexed, Brooklyn ranked as the fourth largest city in the United States. The first settlement in what is now Bro...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Niagara County, New York. Official Website Niagara County was created in 1808 and its name is from the Iroquois word Onguiaahra; meaning the strait or thunder of waters. Adjacent Counties & Provinces Genesee County Erie County Province of Ontario Orleans County Settlements, Towns, Hamlets & Reservations Barker | Cambri...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Erie County, New York. Official Website When counties were established by the English colonial government in the Province of New York in 1683, present-day Erie County was part of Indian territory occupied by Iroquoian-speaking peoples. It was administered as part of New York colony. Significant European-American settlement did not ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Tompkins County, New York. Official Website On April 7, 1817, Tompkins County was created and was named after then US Vice-President and former New York Governor Daniel Tompkins. Tompkins almost certainly never visited the county named for him. Adjacent Counties Cayuga County Cortland County Tioga County Chemung County S...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Tioga County, New York. Official Website The county was created in 1791 and its name derives from an American Indian word meaning "at the forks", describing a meeting place. Adjacent Counties Bradford County, Pennsylvania Chemung County Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania Broome County Cortland County Tompkins County
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Cortland County, New York. Official Website Located in the glaciated Appalachian Plateau area of Central New York, midway between Syracuse and Binghamton, this predominantly rural county is the southeastern gateway to the Finger Lakes Region. Scattered archaeological evidence indicates the Iroquois also known as the Haudenosaunee c...