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Title: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: nutkin on Wednesday 16 February 05 02:53 GMT (UK): Here are a few of my favorite web sites that may help in looking for New York City Area genealogy... Births, deaths, marriages, naturalizations and more.

http://www.italiangen.org/NYCDeath.stm

http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/

http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/vitalrecords/home.shtml

http://www.ellisislandrecords.org

Please feel free to ask any questions. I have used these resources and can give a hand.- Kristin
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: liverpool annie on Tuesday 12 July 05 04:39 BST (UK): Here's one to keep you occupied for a while!!

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/

Annie
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: nutkin on Tuesday 02 August 05 01:32 BST (UK): Here is a new site that may help you find some elusive New York Immigrants. CastleGarden.org offers free access to an extraordinary database of information on 10 million immigrants from 1830 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened. Over 73 million Americans can trace their ancestors to this early immigration period.

This just opened today but looks good.

http://www.castlegarden.org/
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: eillo on Friday 23 September 05 15:20 BST (UK): Good sites, here are a few other free websites with NY records that might be of interest

Complete database of Births and Marriages in the Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam (New York City) 1639-1801 at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/church/rdcbapt.shtml and http://olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/church/rdcmarr1639.shtml

There's lots more New York church records online, it's easier to start at the index http://olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/church/

Here's the index list from that page on the site:

-Membership Lists of the Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam/New York 1649-1701
- Records of the Reformed Church at Conewago - Marriages 1789 to 1793
- Flatbush RDC Consistory Books, Kings Co. Long Island NY - Coordinated Records of Marriages and Baptisms from the Flatbush RDC Consistory Books And the Registers of its Daughter Church at New Lots Kings County, Long Island, New York, Baptisms 1792-1872 and Marriages 1787-1872
- Reformed Dutch Church of Flatlands, Long Island Baptisms 1747-1802
- Reformed Dutch Church of Gravesend Baptisms 1715-1805
- Reformed Dutch Church of Gravesend List of Members 1763-1805
-First Reformed Dutch Church of Newtown, Long Island Communicants 1741, Baptisms 1736-1845, Marriages 1835-1846
- Baptisms for St. George's Church Hempstead, Long Island, New York 1760- 1763
-Reformed Dutch Church of Woodstock, Ulster Co. -- Baptisms 1805 to 1889
-Grace Church, Jamaica (Queens) Baptisms 1710-1731
-Grace Church, Jamaica New York Baptisms 1780-1810
- Grace Church, Jamaica (Queens) Burials 1710-1731
-Grace Church, Jamaica New York Tombstone Recordings
-Grace Church, Jamaica (Queens) Marriages 1710-1731
-Grace Church, Jamaica New York Marriage Records 1769 to 1810
-Miscellaneous Church Records from Jamaica, Flushing and Newtown New York. Communicants 1791-1794 ; Baptisms 1790-1802 ; Marriages 1790-1810; Deaths 1790-1795

There are NYC almshouse records 1819-1840 online at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/ny_alms1819.shtml and 1855-1858 at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/ny_alms1855.htm

New York Orphanage Records are online at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/orphans/

New York Naturalization Records are online at http://naturalizationrecords.com/usa/ny_onlinedb.shtml
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: nutkin on Thursday 29 September 05 00:19 BST (UK): Irish in New York

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nyirish/research.html
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: nutkin on Thursday 29 September 05 00:27 BST (UK): 1840 Brooklyn Directory

http://distantcousin.com/Directories/NY/1840/Brooklyn/
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Post by: nutkin on Wednesday 18 January 06 21:09 GMT (UK): Newspaper indexes for Queens County Marriages and Deaths-

http://www.longislandgenealogy.com/kristina/kristina.html
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: nutkin on Wednesday 18 January 06 21:11 GMT (UK): Tombstone Project

http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/newyork/newyork.html
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: nutkin on Wednesday 18 January 06 21:13 GMT (UK): Long Island Links-Moslty early but very helpful transcriptions and books scanned in.

http://www.longislandgenealogy.com/
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: nutkin on Friday 27 January 06 21:56 GMT (UK): Here is a link for deaths in the Greater NYC area-

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygglshp/Local_Necrology-Bklyn_Daily_Eagle_Almanac.html
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: nutkin on Friday 27 January 06 21:58 GMT (UK): Long Island Directories

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygglshp/Long_Island_Directories.html
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: MonicaL on Tuesday 11 April 06 15:56 BST (UK): For those of you wanting to search Ellis Island records, there is Stephen Morse's very flexible front-end search engine at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB/ellis.html

Invaluable in searching where you might want some flexibility in the search criteria. Links straight into Ellis Island site.

Monica
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: liverpool annie on Saturday 17 June 06 19:22 BST (UK): Found this looking for something else ...... hope it helps somebody !

1928...DEATHS JUNE
Brooklyn Standard Union

http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Newspaper/BSU/1928.Death.June.html

Annie :)
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: nutkin on Friday 04 August 06 01:32 BST (UK): St. John's Episcopal Church and Cemetery

St. John's Rectory
Fishers Island, New York

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/suffolk/Page16.html
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: nutkin on Friday 04 August 06 01:34 BST (UK): New York Genealogical and Biographical Society offers a "Record Search Service" that may be of interest.

http://www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=14
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: nutkin on Friday 08 September 06 02:11 BST (UK): Long Island Deaths 1875

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygglshp/LI_Farmer_Necrology_for_1875___pt_1_.t
xt

Fireman

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygglshp/Fire_Department.html

Directories Long Island

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygglshp/Long_Island_Directories.html
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: shellyesq on Sunday 05 November 06 15:19 GMT (UK): If anyone is looking in Westchester County, New York (just north of the city), this site might be helpful: http://www.westchestergov.com/wcarchives/
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: KathMc on Sunday 05 November 06 20:43 GMT (UK): Shelly,

Great site. Thanks for posting it. I have some family from an indirect branch from Westchester and this will help. I'd give it it's own topic, to call it out.

Kath
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: YvonneR on Friday 16 March 07 08:15 GMT (UK): Excellent news ;D ;D ;D

Manhattan Brides 1866-1905...is now online on the "Italian Genealogical Group" website

www.italiangen.org

Enjoy

Agnes
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: nutkin on Friday 27 April 07 02:22 BST (UK): Just to let you all know... Italian Genealogy Group Link has put some updates on it this spring. Some additional goodies such as Suffolk County Marriages.
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: KathMc on Friday 27 April 07 11:06 BST (UK): I'm not sure when they added it, but they also have Clinton and Essex County naturalizations.

Kath
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: nutkin on Thursday 03 May 07 02:44 BST (UK): Here is a new link for historic Long island Newspapers.

http://shn.suffolk.lib.ny.us/
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: nutkin on Wednesday 16 May 07 02:37 BST (UK): This link has loads of goodies.

http://www.nyvagenealogy.homestead.com/NewYorkRecords.html
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: shellyesq on Saturday 26 July 08 17:27 BST (UK): italiangen.org now has a Nassau County marriage index from 1908 to 1936, along with a Suffolk Co. marriage index from 1908 to 1935 and some naturalizations for both counties.
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: shellyesq on Sunday 06 December 09 18:28 GMT (UK): Quote from: shellyesq on Sunday 05 November 06 15:19 GMT (UK)
If anyone is looking in Westchester County, New York (just north of the city), this site might be helpful: http://www.westchestergov.com/wcarchives/

Update: This site used to have a marriage index from 1908-1930, but now it extends to 1935.
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: shellyesq on Wednesday 07 April 10 20:51 BST (UK): The New York State Archives will do searches of the military records that they have, which are listed here, for a fee of $1 or $3: http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/research/res_topics_mi_warsvc.shtml I recently got the WWI-era record for one of my husband's ancestors, and it gave his Army serial number, town of residence, when/where he enlisted, his age & place of birth, the companies/squadrons he was in, rank, wounds, if he served overseas, and when/where he deserted.
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: historical on Saturday 10 April 10 11:28 BST (UK): Great Idea will get on to this I have recently just found a picture of him shaking hands with Babe Ruth! Which an old Gran Aunt had, Im dying to find out more about him will keep going.

thanks Historical
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: shellyesq on Wednesday 05 January 11 19:56 GMT (UK): There are some New York military records online at http://dmna.state.ny.us/historic/reghist/reghistindex.htm
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: nutkin on Friday 03 August 12 01:05 BST (UK): Here is a link for a local long island newspaper.

http://germangenealogygroup.com/Amityville.stm

This database contains an index of notices of births, marriage, engagements, baptisms, deaths, major anniversaries (birthdays and marriages) and occasional divorces and other events published in the Amityville Record newspaper on Long Island, New York, covering the years 1904-1944.
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: nutkin on Friday 03 August 12 01:07 BST (UK): Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County death record index 1881-1920

http://www.oysterbaytown.com/vertical/Sites/%7B7D6BDBFB-65E8-4A80-B369-DE0267DC78CB%7D/uploads/%7B9FC894CB-A2D7-45B7-90C9-CB0EAFBF334C%7D.PDF
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Post by: nutkin on Friday 03 August 12 01:09 BST (UK): Good Library Links in Long Island

http://guides.library.stonybrook.edu/long_island

http://www.pmlib.org/local
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: shellyesq on Friday 26 October 12 15:36 BST (UK): Quote from: shellyesq on Sunday 05 November 06 15:19 GMT (UK)
If anyone is looking in Westchester County, New York (just north of the city), this site might be helpful: http://www.westchestergov.com/wcarchives/

This site recently added a very helpful search feature for its indexes -
http://archives.westchestergov.com/search-the-archives/search-archives-collections

Also, there are lots of helpful links to historical New York newspapers here -
https://sites.google.com/site/onlinenewspapersite/Home/usa/ny
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Post by: shellyesq on Thursday 27 December 12 16:45 GMT (UK): New York death index from 1957-1963 available for download here -
https://health.data.ny.gov/Health/Genealogical-Research-Death-Index-Beginning-1957/vafa-pf2s?

Residence codes for that death index is here - https://www.health.data.ny.gov/api/assets/991FD0D8-73AF-4573-96F1-437E33D24BCA

New York records from Ancestry.com available for free for New York state residents - http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/research/res_ancestry.shtml
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: shellyesq on Monday 02 December 13 16:42 GMT (UK): Internments in Canarsie Cemetery in Brooklyn - http://canarsiecemetery.homestead.com/Interments.html
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: shellyesq on Saturday 16 August 14 15:08 BST (UK): This blog post gives a good description of how to get 1862-1948 New York City death certificates for free - http://alleghenyancestryandgenealogytrails.blogspot.com/2014/08/accessing-1862-1948-new-york-city-death_1.html

Edited to add: Unfortunately, the free service through Family Search has come to an end.
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: shellyesq on Sunday 19 July 15 15:43 BST (UK): The Brooklyn public library has digitized city directories and telephone books from 1856-1967. Some of them also cover other parts of New York City. https://archive.org/details/brooklynpubliclibrary?&sort=titleSorter&page=2
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Post by: shellyesq on Saturday 22 August 15 23:19 BST (UK): Some online newspapers from the Chappaqua library: http://chappaqua.advantage-preservation.com/
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Post by: shellyesq on Wednesday 09 December 15 22:32 GMT (UK): Burial index for St. John Cemetery - Middle Village, St. Charles / Resurrection Cemeteries - Farmingdale, Mount St. Mary - Flushing, and Holy Cross Cemetery - Brooklyn

http://www.ccbklyn.org/information-news/locate-a-loved-one/
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: LaurelOsprey on Monday 02 July 18 12:26 BST (UK): Old Fulton NY Postcard Website AND New York State Historical Photos & Newspapers.
www.fultonhistory.com

This is a wonderful, free resource not only if you're researching things in New York State, but anywhere including internationally. I've found an amazing variety of newspaper articles/references that have helped me a lot in my research.

The website began--and no I don't know the site owner nor is he paying me to shill for him--when one gentleman began selling postcards on a website back in 2000. He has since expanded and he's scanned over 50,000,000 newspaper pages. He adds thousands of pages monthly.

It takes awhile to get used to the site design and it's not intuitive in the beginning when you're learning to do searches. There are rare times when accessing the site is slow, but no more so than other sites.Those two things aside, what the person that started the website has done is amazing.

Somebody on this site started a thread a few days ago about a family member from England who was a ship's captain. He sailed in to New York Harbor in 1869 and that was the last time his wife in England heard from him. I did a simple search last night and pulled 69 records that mentioned her family member.

Laurel
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: shellyesq on Thursday 05 July 18 15:24 BST (UK): We have another thread that discussed fultonhistory.com - http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=580650.msg2652060#msg2652060 There is a link to a tutorial on that thread that may be helpful for people just starting to use the site.
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: shellyesq on Tuesday 04 October 22 14:04 BST (UK): Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn has a new burial search that includes biographical information for the deceased than wasn't in their prior database. Right now, it covers burials from 1870-1897, but should expand to 1840-1937 in the future.

https://www.green-wood.com/burial-and-vital-records/?fbclid=IwAR1tHEZR1P3c-xV6IixJyEBvwL7z-PgclX_oKyYjKX3s8x60VRWm-VdYDP4
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: Erato on Tuesday 04 October 22 18:10 BST (UK): Thanks for the tip. I sure hope they get those earlier burials online because the Brooklyn death certificates only go back to 1866 and I've got some people who were probably buried at Greenwood before that.
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: Drosybont on Tuesday 04 October 22 18:42 BST (UK): It looks as though 1892 isn't included within 1870-1897 at the moment, so hopefully will be added soon. Good features on the search.

Drosybont
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: shellyesq on Wednesday 05 October 22 18:49 BST (UK): Orange County, New York has put up a page with Historical Documents & Resources. It has a naturalization index, old deeds & mortgages, Revolutionary War & Civil War era documents, old atlases, and others.

https://www.orangecountygov.com/2186/Historical-Documents-Resources
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: shellyesq on Thursday 09 March 23 21:16 GMT (UK): Quote from: shellyesq on Tuesday 04 October 22 14:04 BST (UK)
Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn has a new burial search that includes biographical information for the deceased than wasn't in their prior database. Right now, it covers burials from 1870-1897, but should expand to 1840-1937 in the future.

https://www.green-wood.com/burial-and-vital-records/?fbclid=IwAR1tHEZR1P3c-xV6IixJyEBvwL7z-PgclX_oKyYjKX3s8x60VRWm-VdYDP4

Green-Wood Cemetery now has 1840-1937 online. More information about this project here - https://www.green-wood.com/burial-and-vital-records-about/
Title: Re: Some New York Web Sites
Post by: Erato on Thursday 09 March 23 21:24 GMT (UK): Thanks, shellyesq. I've got a lot of people in Green-wood.

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