Does Matching 48 Rows Prove a New York Crematory Import Is Accurate?

Direct answer and scope

The measured total describes 48 physical-crematory listing rows in the official PDF revision dated December 11, 2024. Those rows span 30 counties. The official endpoint was reachable and served that revision when checked on August 26, 2026. Each part of that statement has a limited role: 48 is the listing-row total, 30 is the measured county coverage, December 11, 2024 is the source revision date, and August 26, 2026 is the endpoint verification date.

Agreement with the 48-row total is not an import-accuracy verdict. A matching total does not establish that each name, cemetery number, address, city, state, ZIP code, telephone number, or county value was represented correctly. It also does not establish that listings are free from repetition or that no listing was omitted. The count measures how many listing rows appear in the dated snapshot; it does not answer those separate questions.

The total and county count do not establish current statewide completeness. They also do not establish whether any listed facility is currently licensed, active, open, or operating, or whether it offers a particular service or has availability. The source age remains material even though the endpoint continued to serve the PDF on the later verification date.

How to use the supplied evidence

Use the dated PDF as a snapshot with an explicit revision date, verification date, listing-row total, and measured county coverage. The accurate description is that the official endpoint checked on August 26, 2026 served a December 11, 2024 revision containing 48 listing rows across 30 counties. The reachability of the endpoint on the verification date does not make the underlying revision more recent.

The published fields are county, cemetery number, name, address, city, state, ZIP code, and telephone number. These are the only fields supported for the listings by the supplied official source. A cemetery number is an administrative identifier published in the PDF. Its presence does not establish present status, service offerings, ownership, direct public access, or a relationship with an arranger.

Keep the measured control distinct from claims about individual values. The number 48 can be used to describe the snapshot total and to detect whether a later source condition differs from that measured total. It cannot resolve the correctness of the information within any particular listing. Likewise, the 30-county measurement describes only the counties represented by the rows in that revision; it is not a statement that every New York county with a crematory is represented.

The revision date should accompany descriptions drawn from the source because it identifies when the PDF was revised. The verification date records when the endpoint was checked. Neither date independently establishes the present circumstances of a listed facility.

Decision framework

First, identify the source condition being described. If the official endpoint still serves the December 11, 2024 PDF revision with the same source hash, filename, columns, control totals, and endpoint behavior, the measured description remains limited to that known snapshot: 48 listing rows across 30 counties, as checked on August 26, 2026.

Second, separate count agreement from all questions about the contents of individual listings. A total of 48 supports only a total-to-total comparison with the dated snapshot. Questions about whether a particular county, cemetery number, name, address, city, state, ZIP code, or telephone number is correct remain distinct and are not answered by matching the overall count.

Third, stop publication for review when the source hash, filename, columns, control totals, or endpoint changes. Any one of those changes means the previously measured source condition cannot simply be carried forward. Review is required before the changed source can be described using the earlier revision date, row total, county total, or field structure.

Finally, preserve unknowns as unknown. The dated PDF and its measured totals do not resolve present licensing, operation, services, direct public access, availability, ownership, arranger relationships, or statewide completeness. No conclusion on those subjects follows from the presence of a row, an administrative identifier, or agreement with the 48-row total.

Evidence limits and unresolved questions

The evidence establishes the identity and measured characteristics of one official artifact: a PDF revision dated December 11, 2024, served by the checked endpoint on August 26, 2026, with 48 listing rows across 30 counties. It establishes the eight fields printed for those listings. It does not provide a later source revision or a separate record resolving the current circumstances of each listed facility.

Several questions therefore remain unresolved by the count. The evidence does not establish whether every New York crematory appears in the snapshot, whether every listed value remains current, or whether any facility is currently operating or accessible to the public. It also does not establish which services a listed facility provides or whether those services are available.

The 48-row total cannot resolve repeated or missing listings because numerical agreement alone does not identify how the total is composed. Two sets can have the same number of entries while differing in their individual contents. Here, the supported conclusion remains narrower: 48 is the measured listing-row total for the dated PDF snapshot.

Changes to the source hash, filename, columns, control totals, or endpoint are unresolved until review occurs. The earlier measurements should not be assigned to a changed source without that review. Until then, the dated December 11, 2024 revision and the August 26, 2026 verification date define the evidence boundary.

Evidence behind this page

Each point below is restricted to what the cited primary source supports. Administrative listing status is not a quality endorsement.