Hi - I've sort of lost track of where this Calvary Cemetery train of messages is leading. If any one is looking for internments in Calvary Cemetery (49-02 Laurel Hill Blvd., Woodside, NY 11317 ) it might be helpful to also look into the volunteer database maintained by the Irish Genealogical Society Int'l. (IGSI) in Minnesota. They have been putting this together for years. Keeping in mind that a majority of Irish immigrants came through NYC in the mid/late 1800's. Many had relatives here, and some family members stayed and others went across America. Those that died in NYC in those years (up to the 1930's) were likely buried in Calvary So there is a strong tie to this resting place. Members of IGSI have been submitting Calvary burial information into a database in the following form: First Date Grv Year Place RA- Donor Surname Name Interred # Age Born Born SEC NGE PLOT IG# If you find a relatives burial you also have found another family researcher by contacting the information donor. This is not restricted to just Irish, it has any Calvary burial submitted. There are also links to other sites containing Calvary information. This link should get you to the IGSI site. http://www.rootsweb.com/~irish/igsi_published/cemetery/calnet96.htm Also to follow the "Perpetual Care" tales; try opening an old grave for a new burial if the "Perpetual Care" bill is overdue. If you can prove it did not exist when the plot was purchased (you have the original deed) you can fight the costs. However this generally comes up when a new burial is about to be held and the original deeds are nowhere to be found. So the distraught family members pay. I have family buried in Calvary since 1887 and the plots are all still there, although the cemetery "accidentally" removed some iron boundary markers in order to allow faster grass cutting. Some older plots from 1910's had no headstones but we know their exact location and they have not been disturbed. They did not have any such thing as extra perpetual care cost, that is a recent innovation, about 1950's. Cemetery maintenance went with the gravesite. In "olden" days they had the manpower and took more care in maintenance. Good Luck in your research, Bud L