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New York City Vital Records Published Online
Color images of 9 million certificates now available.
The largest collection of publicly available New York City birth, marriage, and death records is now online and free to access! Read our article for the details and tips for browsing.
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Article Archive
Do you have questions about the 2022 New York State Family History Conference?
Here are some of the questions we are frequently asked by those attending or interested in purchasing a pass.
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!
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 York for longer.
The Summer 2022 issue of the New York Researcher is now available to read online.
Read NYG&B President D. Joshua Taylor's letter below, and browse the issue's table of contents.
The NYG&B’s member magazine, the New York Researcher, publishes a column where our members tell their stories. This column in our summer 2022 issue is a shortened version of Barbara Scott’s full story.
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.