The NYG&B Blog Archive

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From Our Online Collections: American Bible Society Collection Family Records Since its founding in 1816, the American Bible Society has developed an extraordinary collection of bibles in most of the world’s languages. Many of the bibles in the ABS collection were once…
Searching for Records in Tioga County, NY Tioga County is located in the south-central part of New York State, along the border with Pennsylvania. Tioga County is bordered by Tompkins and Cortland counties in the north, Broom County to…
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Wins Two Awards for Excellence from the National Genealogical Society New York, NY, May 6, 2016. The National Genealogical Society (NGS) presented the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society (NYG&B) with two distinguished prizes at the NGS Family History…
Searching for Records in Clinton County, NY Clinton County is situated in the extreme northeastern part of New York State. The county is bordered by Quebec, Canada to the north, Vermont and Lake Champlain to the east, Essex County to the south…
From Our eLibrary: Harlem Cemetery, Dutch Church Disinterments 1869-1875 Prompted by New York City's northward growth, the Consistory of the Dutch Reformed Church of Harlem purchased a plot in Woodlawn Cemetery in 1869. The remains interred in its old cemetery…
NYG&B Sponsored Lectures at NGS 2016 On Thursday, May 5 in Fort Lauderdale at the National Genealogical Society's Family History Conference, you have the opportunity to hear five new lectures by New York experts.  The NYG&B is…
Searching for Records in Delaware County, NY Delaware County is located in south-central New York and is part of the Catskill Mountain region. The county gets its name from the Delaware River, which constitutes its western border and separates…
Searching for Records in Hamilton County, NY Happy 200th anniversary Hamilton County!! Hamilton County is located in north-central New York. It is one of two New York counties whose territories lie entirely within Adirondack Park. …
NYC Clerk's Marriage Indexes Available on the Internet Archive Images of the indexes to the New York City Clerk’s collection of marriage affidavits, licenses, and certificates may now be accessed for free through the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/…
From Our eLibrary: NYC Surrogate's Office, Abstracts Of Inventories 1730-1752, 1775-1786 “This volume is now much ill used and very little cared for in that office,” wrote J.H. Jones in 1898 of the inventories for 1730-52 which resided in the Surrogate’s Office in Manhattan. …