New York City

New York records now online: New York State Birth Index, NYC Almshouse Ledgers & NYC Bodies in Transit

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Friday, August 3, 2018

Government & Laws

Great news for researchers with ancestors all over New York State - the New York State Birth Index, and the New York City Municipal Archives collections of Almshouse Ledgers and Bodies in Transit records are now online!

Slavery Records in the Common Council Papers at the New York City Municipal Archives

Meryl Schumacker, NYG&B Record, vol. 149 (2018), no. 1: 21 - 38

Read more about Slavery Records in the Common Council Papers at the New York City Municipal Archives

Frans Abramse Van Salee and His Descendants: A Colonial Black Family in New York and New Jersey

Henry Hoff, NYG&B Record, vol 121 (1990) no. 2: 65-71; no. 3: 157-161; no. 4: 205-211.

Read more about Frans Abramse Van Salee and His Descendants: A Colonial Black Family in New York and New Jersey

Swan Janse Van Luane: A Free Black in 17th Century Kings County

Henry Hoff, NYG&B Record, vol. 125 (1994), no. 2: 74-77.

Read more about Swan Janse Van Luane: A Free Black in 17th Century Kings County

Abstracts of Early Black Manhattanites

Richard Dickenson, NYG&B Record, vol. 116 (1985), no. 2: 100-104; no. 3: 169-173.

Read more about Abstracts of Early Black Manhattanites

Researching African-American Families in New Netherland and Colonial New York and New Jersey

Henry Hoff, NYG&B Record, vol. 136, no. 2 (2005): 83-95.

Read more about Researching African-American Families in New Netherland and Colonial New York and New Jersey

Unusual Ways to Die in Old New York

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Friday, October 20, 2017

Government & Laws

In honor of the Halloween season, we cracked open our “spookiest” records - New York City Coroner’s reports from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - to see what we could learn about sudden, untimely death in Old New York.

New NYC birth index images, 1910 - 1965, available on Ancestry.com

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Wednesday, October 11, 2017

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.

Images of New York City vital records now online at FamilySearch

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Friday, September 1, 2017

Fantastic news for New York City researchers! Images of some New York City vital record certificates are available online from FamilySearch.

New NYC death indexes available, 1949 - 1965

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Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Vital Records

Ancestry.com has just added another 16 years of searchable death index images for New York City.

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