The NYG&B Blog Archive
Use this index to search through more than two hundred NYG&B blog posts.
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| 5 things you will learn from our “Finding Your Family in Online Newspapers” webinar | Historical newspapers are a crucial source of genealogical information, but they are sometimes overlooked or underutilized. Newspapers often have unique clues, details, and stories about ancestors.… | |
| 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… | |
| 6 quick tips to prepare for a genealogy cemetery trip | This blog was written by NYG&B summer intern Bryley Williams. The summer and fall are perfect times to find the grave of a long-lost relative, so we’ve compiled a list of six tips to make… | |
| 8 ways to use the NYG&B website to improve your skills and find ancestors | The mission of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society is to help you discover, preserve, and share the stories of your New York family history. Our website is one of the primary… | |
| A genealogical writing journey: An interview with Shannon Green | Last month at our DNA and Family History Seminar, we interviewed Shannon Green, an NYG&B Member who has been working to improve her genealogical writing skills with tremendous success: She… | |
| A Juneteenth Trip to Historic Richmond Town | June 19th, 1865 is a significant date in United States history. On that date 156 years ago, the last group of African Americans in Galveston, Texas were informed that they were no longer enslaved. As… | |
| A new look at the demographics of a 19th century Lower East Side neighborhood | One of the most exciting collections in the NYG&B eLibrary is the 1855 New York State Census for Ward 17 of New York City, located in Manhattan. Ward 17 was a neighborhood on the Lower East Side… | |
| A Q&A with Michael Waas, NYG&B Scholar in Residence | In September 2023 Michael Waas, MA, was appointed as a scholar in residence at the NYG&B to research Jewish families in the NYG&B’s materials and produce the first-of-its-kind survey of NYG… | |
| Additional New York Newspapers Digitized | GenealogyBank has added six New York titles and updated a New Jersey newspaper in their collection: New Jersey Jersey City Jersey Journal 2/22/1967 12/15/1969 New York Brooklyn… | |
| An 1800s Account Journal: Online for the First Time Ever | This past week we published the Account Journal of Dr. Amaziah Church Sherwood on our website—a set of records that had never before been digitized or published on the web. The story of how… |