The NYG&B Blog Archive
Use this index to search through the more than two hundred NYG&B's blog posts.
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| "Conversations with Kenyatta" featuring D. Joshua Taylor | NYG&B President D. Joshua Taylor reunites with his former PBS Genealogy Roadshow co-host, Kenyatta Berry, on Ms. Berry’s latest podcast episode of “Conversations with Kenyatta” for a lively… | |
| "TOMORROW IS RAGAMUFFIN DAY" | "New York children will appear in fantastic garb. Will beg on the street. Pedestrians who do not give will be swatted with stockings full of flour and missiles of all kinds." So wrote the… | |
| #GivingTuesday: Support the Preservation of New York Records | #GivingTuesday is a global day of giving fueled by the power of social media and collaboration. Celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving (in the U.S.) and the widely recognized shopping… | |
| 1950 Census Indexing Progress | New York’s name review for the FamilySearch/Ancestry 1950 census project is complete! And all the other states, too. Thank you to all who have helped! Family review continues, where the household is… | |
| 1950 Census Indexing—Why We Help Out | The release of the 1950 census is exciting for many and will provide an entry point for many families newer to the United States. It also matters to those families who have been in what is now New… | |
| 1950 United States Census Update | The April 1 release of the 1950 United States census has kept some of us up late—or rising early—to locate family and people of interest. Here’s an update, especially for New York. The National… | |
| 45 reasons to attend the New York State Family History Conference | The 2018 New York State Family History Conference features a program full of fascinating classes that will improve your research skills and teach you all about the most important online record sets… | |
| 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 online. Dr… | |
| 5 things you will learn from our ‘Genealogy Resources at the Center for Jewish History’ webinar | The Center for Jewish History (CJH) comprises archives from five organizations: American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and… | |
| 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… |