St. Luke’s Church was started in 1850 by Rev. William Drees and a small group of his Dutch Reformed congregation.
St. Paul’s Evangelical Reformed Church Finding Aid
St. Paul’s Evangelical Reformed Church was organized around the year 1852 as the German Evangelical Reformed Church.
The church was located on Suffolk Street near Delancey Street in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Treasures of the NYG&B: Slocum Disaster Life-Saving Award
In 1904 just about one in four New Yorkers was German — either an immigrant or a child of an immigrant.
The Walloon Index
In 2005 the NYG&B Collection acquired 199 reels of microfilm containing the famous “Walloon Index” or Collection des Fiches of the Bibliothèque Wallonne in Leiden, The Netherlands.
Rev. Francis J. Schneider's German Evangelical Congregation in New York
Rev. Francis J. Schneider arrived in New York sometime during or before 1869 with his wife, Cecelia, and their two sons,1 and immediately set to work. He was a Protestant minister unconnected to any established church.
Discovering de Cillia: A Central European Journey to the Past
My grandfather, Maximilian (Max) de Cillia, was the only member of his family to come to America. He came through Ellis Island in New York City just prior to World War I and on arrival told the U.S. Immigration authorities he was Swiss.
A Selected Bibliography for German Research
Instructional Books and Guides to Sources
- 1993 Updated Addresses to German Repositories: German Archives, Genealogical Societies, Historical Societies [Germany G 2.121]
Reformed Church Records of New York City (Manhattan & Bronx)
Originally published in The NYG&B Newsletter, Spring 1994, updated to July 2017
This article covers the Dutch Reformed (and some German Reformed) churches of New York City, beginning with 17th century New Amsterdam.