Trace Your New York Ancestors with the NYG&B in New York City! Join us November 12–14, 2025, for three days of uncovering your New York ancestors. With the NYG&B headquarters as home base, you will be steps away from our...
Please join the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society (NYG&B) for the Annual Fall Benefit Luncheon. This year’s event will feature Russell Shorto discussing his new book, Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary...
If you reside in or are visiting the New York City area, you are invited to come in person to our New York City Digitization Center for a 30-minute session to digitally preserve your own records using our state-of-the...
Family history is a fascinating and personal way for everyone to better understand who they are and how our past has shaped us. Genealogy also helps to reveal and strengthen connections between individuals and...
As part of our mission to preserve New York history, volunteers actively digitize records and documents in our New York City Digitization Center. Volunteers in the center are trained to use our scanning equipment...
Please join the NYG&B as we walk through searching the Village of Brightwaters collection. Kalyn Loewer, NYG&B's Digital Collections Manager, will be joined by Marykate Moley, President of the Brightwaters Historical...
If you reside in or are visiting the New York City area, you are invited to come in person to our New York City Digitization Center for a 30-minute session to digitally preserve your own records using our state-of-the...
This genealogical presentation will explore record collections held by the New York City Municipal Archives. This vast trove holds details of New York City residents and sometimes of those passing through the city. Join...