Cemeteries can be rich sources of important and sometimes unexpected genealogical information. The most basic gravestone inscriptions may include the name and dates of birth and death of the deceased.
Released March 07!
From Our eLibrary: New York State Cemetery Abstracts
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Cemetery
The NYG&B’s eLibrary collection of cemetery abstracts of New York State (and bordering locations) comprises records from New York State cemeteries, some dating back to the mid-seventeenth century.
Holdings include:
From Our eLibrary: NYC Surrogate's Office, Abstracts Of Inventories 1730-1752, 1775-1786
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Court
“This volume is now much ill used and very little cared for in that office,” wrote J.H. Jones in 1898 of the inventories for 1730-52 which resided in the Surrogate’s Office in Manhattan. The records for 1776-86 fared no better and he noted that the first 44 pages of this volume are missing. Mr.
From Our Online Collections: The NYG&B Record
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NYG&B Publications, Periodicals
The second-oldest genealogical journal in the United States, The Record has as its goal the scholarly preservation of the history of families who have contributed to the rich diversity of what is now New York State.
From our eLibrary: New York State WPA Archive Inventories and Abstracts
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Repositories
Many of the buildings, parks and roads that we use in our local communities today are there thanks to the Works Progress Administration, one of the most successful relief agencies from the New Deal.
Royden Woodward Vosburgh's Religious Record Transcriptions
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Religious records are among the most important categories of records for the family history researcher, especially those researching in New York State.
New Records Added to our eLibrary: Shipwrecked Passengers, 1817-1875
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Immigration
Last week we added a useful and fascinating resource to our eLibrary - a compilation of 19th-century shipwrecks and their passengers by Frank A. Biebel.
Released January 09!
Released January 09!
From Virginia to Upstate New York: An African-American Family's Journey to Upstate to New York
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African American