Some New York Web Sites

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There are some New York military records online at http://dmna.state.ny.us/historic/reghist/reghistindex.htm

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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.

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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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Good Library Links in Long Island

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

http://www.pmlib.org/local

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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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New York death index from 1957-1972 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

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Internments in Canarsie Cemetery in Brooklyn - http://canarsiecemetery.homestead.com/Interments.html

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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.

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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