Join D. Joshua Taylor, President and CEO, and Jennifer Davis, Vice President, Advancement and Membership, for a look at 2026 programming and events. Learn more about the NYG&B’s Research Tours as well as next year’s...
Join the NYG&B and guest experts for an online exploration of resources and techniques for conducting New Netherland research. Get a historical overview of New Netherland and the essential tools for researching Dutch...
You’ve run out of online records to research, or the ones you’re searching for aren’t public. Worse yet, the records you need are destroyed. Perhaps you’ve run into maiden name troubles. Or maybe you've come to the end...
Central New York’s Mohawk Valley region is steeped in both natural beauty and fascinating history—from Native American culture to a hotbed of Revolutionary War activity to Erie Canal engineering marvels. Join the NYG&B...
From its original Indigenous inhabitants to successive waves of Dutch, English, and other European colonists to communities of free and enslaved people of color, Long Island has had a long, rich history as a place of...
Join us for a virtual roundtable discussion with our 2025 Preservation in Action honorees, who will share insights and lessons learned from their trailblazing work in and contributions to the field of family history in a...
Access to millions of New Yorkers in our vast online collections and thousands of new pages of records from all over New York State and New York City—many of which aren’t available online anywhere else. Search tools...
The NYG&B’s Digitize New York initiative preserves historical records and makes them accessible for people conducting New York family history research. Through this initiative, the NYG&B is partnering with historical...
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society is proud to present the inaugural New York Genealogical and Historical Society Summit, taking place online on Friday, October 3, 2025. This free, virtual event is...
The NYG&B’s 2025 New York State Family History Conference, Echoes of New York, ( September 3–November 16, 2025) kicks off, with access to on-demand sessions categorized under three separate tracks: People of New York...