St. Luke’s Church was started in 1850 by Rev. William Drees and a small group of his Dutch Reformed congregation.
Released July 23!
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.
Essential Resources for African American Research on the NYG&B Website
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African American
Are you researching African American families from New York State? This kind of research can be amazingly complicated and full of brick walls.
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
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.
Abstracts of Early Black Manhattanites
Richard Dickenson, NYG&B Record, vol. 116 (1985), no. 2: 100-104; no. 3: 169-173.
Unusual Ways to Die in Old New York
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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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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.
1855 New York State Census, Ward 17 (Manhattan)
The 1855 New York State census is especially useful to family historians for many reasons. This Knowledge Base article contains everything you need to know about this record set and how to use it successfully. We have digitized and indexed a previously unavailable portion of this census - Manhattan's Ward 17. This Ward was never even microfilmed, so the way to view these records other than visiting New York City is in the NYG&B eLibrary.