The NYG&B Blog Archive

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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. …
Searching for Records in Essex County, NY Modern Essex County formed in 1799 after separating from Clinton County.  It is named for the city of Essex in Great Britain.  The county is located in northeast New York, the eastern…
Searching for Records in Genesee County, NY Genesee County is located in Western New York. The county is bordered by Orleans County in the North, Monroe and Livingston Counties in the East, Wyoming County in the South, and Niagara and Erie…
Searching for Records in Franklin County, NY Franklin County was formed on March 11, 1808, from Clinton County, and named for Benjamin Franklin. The county seat is in the Village of Malone. The first European settlements were made…
New York Records on FamilySearch Your ancestors may be hiding . . . did you know that not all records on FamilySearch are indexed and therefore will not appear when you search for a name? Recently FamilySearch has created an easier…
From Our eLibrary: New York State Cemetery Abstracts The NYG&B’s eLibrary collection of cemetery abstracts of New York State (and bordering locations) comprises records from New York State cemeteries, some dating back to the mid-seventeenth century…