Photos. Take and use any way you want. I see some folks don't want to share. It is my pleasure to take these photos and share. They are also available on JOWBR a part of JewishGen.org

"Dear Ancestor"

Your tombstone stands among the rest;

neglected and alone.

The name and date are chiseled out

on polished, marbled stone.

It reaches out to all who care;

It is too late to mourn.

You did not know that I exist;

You died and I was born.

Yet each of us are cells of you

in flesh, in blood, in bone.

Our blood contracts and beats a pulse

entirely not our own.

Dear Ancestor, the place you filled

one hundred years ago,

spreads out among the ones you left

who would have loved you so.

I wonder if you lived and loved,

I wonder if you knew.

That someday I would find this spot,

and come to visit you.

-Walter Butler Palmer (written in 1906)

Thank to Casey FAG#49622750 for posting this lovely poem.

Recent Work: April 2025 - cleaning the stones. I did not like the photos I took in March. March 2025: Westchester Hills-Stephen Wise Free Synagogue Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. Most graves are on-line but are missing photos. I'll be adding photos this year.

July 2024 to present...Temple Israel Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. about 4800 burials including 137 Mausoleums. I am in final stage of getting assigned plot numbers. I often do little genealogies.

I was born in The Bronx in 1940 and raised in Mt. Vernon, NY. I have been a genealogist since 1950. I work in electrical contracting field in New York City. My father wired the Verrazano bridge. I walked its support cables during construction. As a contractor I wired Pan Am World Port. I ended as a Quality Control Manager. I live in Stamford, CT

In June 2020 I started taking photos of head and foot stones, etc. at Jewish cemeteries in Darien. As of August 2020, I have done Darien, Stamford, Shelton, parts of Danbury and others. I try to use Census records, Directories, Naturalizations and Obituaries (posted under "fair use doctrine") to link people. When possible, I add the records or the record information to the person. My photos are free to use and may also be found at JOWBR, BillionGraves, ctgen.org.

I welcome any changes or additions to information I've submitted, and will gladly transfer ownership to any member requesting.

Starting August 2020 I am photographing Jewish Cemeteries in Westchester County, New York.