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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...

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...

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...

Excellent news for New York researchers with Catholic ancestors: New York Catholic genealogy records are finally coming online for the first time ever. Findmypast continues to ...

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...

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...