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The records of the United States Sanitary Commission, recently reprocessed by The New York Public Library, are a vast and newly accessible resource for Civil War era family...

Birth, marriage, and death records offer important clues to anyone researching their family history. These vital records can provide dates, relationships, and other essential...

Dates are fundamental to genealogy — and it is fundamental that genealogists estimate them properly, and use them correctly in their writing.   Expressing Dates Except when...

The Albany Stadt Huys or City Hall, erected 1740, New York's State Capitol 1797-1808 Formed in November 1683 as one of New York's twelve original counties, Albany's first...

An often overlooked resource for early American family research are court records. One manuscript collection of note is “New York City and New York State Legal Documents from the...

Probate records, detailing the settlement of the estates of deceased New Yorkers, are one of the state's most valuable genealogical sources. In May 1787 the state established the...

Are you having difficulty tracing someone in New York City in the early nineteenth century? Maybe city census records, now available on microfilm at the Municipal Archives and the...

A little-used reel of microfilm in the NYG&B Collection contains tax assessment rolls for New York City for many years from 1699 to 1734. These rolls can be helpful in...

Guides and General Resources Roger D. Joslyn, "New York," in Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County & Town Sources, rev.ed. (1992) pp. 521-40 Research Outline: New York (...

The films listed below contain records of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), created by the Monthly Meetings (MM) within the jurisdiction of the New York Yearly Meeting....