The NYG&B’s 2025 New York State Family History Conference ( September 3–November 16, 2025) offers a rich array of sessions to help participants hone their skills. This year’s conference, Echoes of New York, will have...
Researching 20th-century veterans is especially difficult, as a fire destroyed millions of Official Military Personnel Files (OMPF) in 1973. This presentation will look at a variety of record types and repositories that...
On October 9, 1825, The Restauration, a slooper from Norway, arrived on the shores of New York with passengers looking for religious freedom and opportunity. This presentation will look at the event of their New York...
Join Jeffrey Croteau and Sarah H. Shepherd of the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library for a webinar about American Masonic and fraternal organizations, focusing on New York, and how their records can help you in your...
New York City’s Municipal Archives has made the publicly available records of birth, marriage, and death mostly accessible online. The NYG&B’s Susan R. Miller will show efficient techniques for finding and accessing...
Join the NYG&B for a one-day seminar focused on the process for tracing residents of New Netherland, a vast and dynamic colony that encompassed parts of the present-day states of Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, and...
To help preserve at-risk historical records and improve access for people conducting New York family history research, the NYG&B launched the Digitize New York initiative in 2023. Through this initiative, the NYG&B is...
With an Online Collection of tens of thousands of searchable records—many of which have never before been digitized and are unlikely to be available anywhere else—as well as physical collections held at the New York...
In May 2024 the NYG&B launched New Netherland Settlers—a groundbreaking, multiyear project to develop detailed, peer-reviewed sketches of all the people residing in New Netherland prior to 1664, including settlers, those...
Are you interested in forging an official connection to your Irish or Italian ancestor’s homeland? Learn more about Irish and Italian dual citizenship, including its benefits, the laws governing citizenship, records...