The NYG&B Blog Archive

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5 things you will learn from our ‘Unlock the Mysteries of Nonpopulation Schedules' webinar All family history researchers should be familiar with nonpopulation census schedules. Population census schedules are what most people think of and use when doing census research, but these other…
5 things you will learn from our 'Using Your DNA to Connect to Your Irish Roots' webinar Irish genetic genealogist Dr. Maurice Gleeson, joined NYG&B in March for a webinar, Using Your DNA to Connect to Your Irish Roots, which is now available for NYG&B members to watch…
Inside the April Issue of The NYG&B Record The April issue of The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record is out and available for NYG&B members to read online.  The second issue of Volume 152 is packed with…
Inside the Spring 2021 Issue of the New York Researcher Volume 32 of the New York Researcher has arrived! Issue number 1, the Spring issue, is available to read online and in the mail.  Read the "From the President" column and the table of…
How to Find Photos of Any NYC Street Corner With OldNYC With this useful website, you can access a database of photographs for many locations in New York City throughout the ages. OldNYC helps users search New York Public Library’s photographic…
The Slave Dwelling Project & the Hands that Held the Bricks Recently, Joseph McGill, the founder of the Slave Dwelling Project, spoke at an online event co-hosted by the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Jean Sampson Scott Greater New…
New NY Records Online With so many new genealogy records coming online around the web, it can be hard to keep up! Here is our roundup of some notable New York records that have debuted around the web in late 2020 and…
Before the Five-borough City: The Old Cities, Towns, and Villages That Came Together to Form 'Greater New York' The present City of New York, consisting of five boroughs, came into existence on January 1, 1898. This article focuses on what the five-borough city replaced. This is important because the…
New NY Records Online: November and December 2020 With so many new genealogy records coming online around the web, it can be hard to keep up! Here is our roundup of some notable New York records that have debuted around the web this November and…
5 Ways to Use The NYG&B Record Online Archive The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record is a crucial resource for researching your New York ancestors. This peer-reviewed journal has been published continually since…