The NYG&B Blog Archive

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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 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…
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. …
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/…
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. …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…