Once an idea in the 1990s, 2004 marked the year the National Cemetery Administration’s (NCA) Nationwide Gravesite Locator (NGL) was made available. The NGL was designed to search for a compilation of digitized records and burial locations of veterans and their family members.
Provided here is the NGL for veterans buried in New York. This database is for family members of deceased veterans. This database is also helpful for genealogists looking for records as well as clues that can lead them to other records.
Family members and researchers can search for names on this page, which will net results exclusively from New York State from the NGL database.
Out of 148 national cemeteries, there are 7 in New York State. There national cemeteries are:
- Bath National Cemetery – Bath, NY
- Calverton National Cemetery – Calverton, NY
- Cypress Hills National Cemetery – Brooklyn, NY
- Gerald B.H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery – Schuylerville, NY
- Long Island National Cemetery – Farmingdale, NY
- Woodlawn National Cemetery – Elmira, NY
- Albany Rural Cemetery Soldiers’ Lot – Albany, NY
Some of the information that can be found in these records include:
- Full name
- Birth date
- Death date
- Burial date
- Burial location
- Cemetery name and address
- Relationship to veteran
- Service dates
- Rank
- Military service branch
Suggested citation for this collection:
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, “Veterans Buried in New York (NGL)” digital images, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, (www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org), 2020.