Q: My family arrived in New York Harbor, September 1911 from Port of Spain, Trinidad. They resided in Brooklyn (Kings County) New York. Not long after their arrival the family patriarch William Best died of pneumonia, in 1914. I am having great difficulty finding his death certificate and the location of his burial. The family had only just arrived and did not have much money, so we are sure that he was buried in a cemetery for those with little to no money--but which one and where --Susan

A: While it is certainly possible that he was buried in a potter's field, and I have included more about New York City's below, the first step in solving your problem is to find a copy of William Best's death certificate....

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