Researching your family? Here's a good place to start

By: Richard L. Simpson - Historian and Tour Guide for Moravian Cemetery.

Researching your family?  There's no better place to start your search than Moravian Cemetery.

Moravian Cemetery is now accepting genealogy requests.

Our records date back to 1867.

Please submit your request in writing to:
Moravian Cemetery
Attention: Richard Simpson - Historian.
2205 Richmond Road
Staten Island, NY 10306 

For a faster response you can e-mail your request to:

cemeteryguy@earthlink.net

Call us at: 718.351.0136 (ext. 7) Monday-Friday. 9a-4p.

Visit us at www.moraviancemeterytours.com

Include your name, e-mail and telephone number.  Include as much information as possible about the person you are inquiring about.

You will be contacted as to what information is held by the office. This will determine if a fee is required.

Information in our files might include:
. Interment Record - name of deceased, date of death, where they died, cause of death, home address, party who reported death, church affiliation, attending funeral home, date and time of funeral.
. birth/marriage/death certificates. . correspondence from family.
. Service records - Civil War, Spanish American War, WWI, WWII, etc. 

. death notice from newspaper.
. Genealogy chart submitted by family.
. Copy of cemetery deed which shows who purchased gravesite, their signature, their address.
. Diagram of plot which shows who's buried where.
. Photograph of cemetery plot.
. Information as to where you might find further information: government, state, local records, local archives centers, reference books, local newspapers.

We also provide services for obtaining obituary notices from local newspapers, and copies of wills, providing they were filed in Richmond County  (Staten Island, NY). 

This article was originally published in Moravian Cemetery, it's much more than a cemetery.