We have a Swedish relative buried in St. Michael's Cemetery in Astoria, Augusta Charlotta Bjorkander, d. March 20, 1880, but we don't know if she has a headstone there [for a picture]. We speculate that her brother, Claes Vilhelm ["John William"] Bjorkander [Burkander] and her brother-in-law, William Parsons, may be buried besider her, but we don't have their death dates, as those dates don't appear to be in the NYC Death Index, so we think they may have died before 1891. Does anyone know if the cemetery's records are filed by NAME or by DATE? If by date, there is probably little sense in sending a research request for those whose death dates we don't know. Have spent a good amount already in this search, and am just checking to see if there's an obvious resource we're overlooking. [Have seen the St. Michael's web site itself, did call, got no way to leave message.]

Thanks so much! Jeannie Rollberg

Send them an email..
http://www.stmichaelscemetery.com/

Thank you. I did do that! My experience has been at many cemeteries that e-mail is not checked very frequently. Let us hope that here it may be different.

Jeannie

Keep bugging them. My great-grandfather is buried in Grand Lawn Cemetery in Detroit. I made many phone calls, sent several emails, even wrote a letter. They finally "took the time" to look up his info for me. I think they did it because they tired of hearing from me.

Good luck,
Susan

Thanks! I appreciate that large cemeteries do have many requests, and will try to be patient while also being persistent. Take care. Jeannie

Older burials are still in books not on computers there.
when I was looking for my relatives there who died in 1910
I had to paid $25 look up fee and wait until they mailed me the info
Nancy

Nancy-- You're a peach. Thanks so much! Jeannie

I am in charge of reseach At st
ichEl 's cemetery in queens there is Fee
718-278 -3240

Thanks so much. Jeanne

I sent an email with just name and possible year of death. They are in the process of putting their records on computer. If your target person is on their computerized list, a phone call follow up to the email can be helpful. Ericka (think that was her name) is the administrative assistant, so is normally very busy. If she has to go back to the microfiche/microfilm records, there is a $25 research fee. She is very helpful considering how busy she is.