Henry Hoff, NYG&B Record, vol. 125 (1994), no. 2: 74-77.
New NYC birth index images, 1910 - 1965, available on Ancestry.com
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Vital Records
Great news for those with ancestors born in New York City! Ancestry.com recently added a new searchable database containing crucial information on New York City births between 1910 and 1965.
New NYC death indexes available, 1949 - 1965
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Vital Records
Ancestry.com has just added another 16 years of searchable death index images for New York City.
New NYC directories added to NYPL digital collections
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City Directories, Directories
New online records are now available for those researching their families in New York City - the NYPL Digital Collections have recently added more New York City directories to their already substantial collection.
Kings County Potter’s Field: The Forgotten Dead
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Cemetery
The following post was originally published in 2014, by an NYG&B intern.
Kings County (Brooklyn Borough), New York Cities, Towns, and Villages
This article is a list of towns, formation dates and other details related to Kings County municipalities.
Kings County (Brooklyn Borough), New York Guide
This guide for Kings County contains a detailed list of resources for those researching families that lived there. The guide includes a map of municipalities, a brief county history, as well as links to county, local and regional repositories, resources, and societies. A selected bibliography is also available, along with other links that researchers will find highly valuable.
The Wardwell Collection of Genealogical Notes on Local Families at the Brooklyn Historical Society
Following are the subject families in the Arthur Soper Wardwell Collection at the Brooklyn Historical Society. Arthur Soper Wardwell, F.A.S.G.
The Long Island Division of the Queens Borough Public Library
Before traveling to the Queens County Surrogate's Court for an early probate proceeding — perhaps only to learn that the file is missing or to be informed that it is too late that day to order a file — one is well advised to first check the collec
The Brooklyn Eagle Almanac
Between 1886 and 1929 the newspaper Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an annual almanac, "A Book of Information, General of the World, and Special of New York City and Long Island," as the 1914 edition is sub-titled.