Welcome to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society's Online Collections. Search all records at once below, or browse our holdings in the Collections Catalog.
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The NYG&B Record - Every Name Index
This collection allows you to search an every-name index to The Record. This is a database that contains every name included in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society's journal, The Record, from 1870 to 2014. Indexed entries typically include event type, event year, the name of the article the name and event is found in, and alternate names (if applicable). Click here to view this collection.
The NYG&B Record - Full Text Search
This collections allows you to perform a full-text search that includes every issue of The Record. All digitized files in this collection have gone through Optical Character Recognition, allowing researchers an alternate method of searching that can be used in conjunction with the every name index. This collection provides superior results for researchers searching by locations or other keywords that are not names. Click here to view this collection.
Explore All Online Collections
Below you will find a complete list of each online collection. Click the title of each collection to view a full description and search the collection individually.
| Collection Title | Collection Category | Location | Collection Type | More Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schenectady County Religious Records | Religious Records | Schenectady County | Image Browse | View description |
| Transcribed genealogy records from churches in Schenectady County, New York. Researchers can browse digital images of these records, but they cannot currently be searched. The collection page contains a complete list of all congregations available, including waypoint links to images from each church. Read More | ||||
| Schoharie County Cemetery Records | Cemetery | Schoharie County | Image Browse | View description |
| Transcribed gravestone inscriptions from cemeteries in Schoharie County, New York. Researchers can browse digital images of these records, but they cannot currently be searched. The collection page contains a complete list of all cemeteries available, including waypoint links to view images from each cemetery. Read More | ||||
| Schoharie County Religious Records | Religious Records | Schoharie County | Text & Images | View description |
| Transcribed genealogy records from churches in Schoharie County, New York. Some volumes are searchable, others can only be browsed by image. The collection page contains a complete list of all congregations available, including waypoint links to images from each church. Read More | ||||
| Shipwrecked Passengers Bound for the Americas, 1817 - 1875 | Immigration | All NY Counties | Text | View description |
| This collection was researched and transcribed by NYG&B Fellow Frank A. Biebel in 2013. He states that the Act of 1819 "made no provision for the inevitable shipwreck(s), including survivors.” This lead to there being “no comprehensive list” of the names of the victims of the shipwrecks, leaving most of them unknown. Read More | ||||
| Suffolk County Cemetery Records | Cemetery | Suffolk County | Image Browse | View description |
| Transcribed gravestone inscriptions from cemeteries in Suffolk County, New York. Researchers can browse digital images of these records, but they cannot currently be searched. The collection page contains a complete list of all cemeteries available, including waypoint links to view images from each cemetery. Read More | ||||
| The Columbia (Periodical) | Periodicals | Columbia County | Text | View description |
| Issues of The Columbia contain a variety of extracted and transcribed records from Columbia County and beyond—many of which cannot be found anywhere else online. These materials often represent previously unpublished records from private individuals, churches, and other record holders. Read More | ||||
| Ulster County Cemetery Records | Cemetery | Ulster County | Image Browse | View description |
| Transcribed gravestone inscriptions from cemeteries in Ulster County, New York. Researchers can browse digital images of these records, but they cannot currently be searched. The collection page contains a complete list of all cemeteries available, including waypoint links to view images from each cemetery. Read More | ||||
| Ulster County Clerk's Office, Old Dutch & English Records | Colonial | Ulster County | Text | View description |
| Before the publication of this survey of microfilm in 2011, Donald C. Lockhart was trying to investigate the life of an ancestor named Reijnier van der Coelen. This ancestor was a “distiller and grain dealer whose misdeed dot the pages of colonial-era records.” Read More | ||||
| Washington County Cemetery Records | Cemetery | Washington County | Image Browse | View description |
| Transcribed gravestone inscriptions from cemeteries in Washington County, New York. Researchers can browse digital images of these records, but they cannot currently be searched. The collection page contains a complete list of all cemeteries available, including waypoint links to view images from each cemetery. Read More | ||||
| Washington County Religious Records | Religious Records | Washington County | Text & Images | View description |
| Transcribed genealogy records from churches in Washington County, New York. Some volumes are searchable, others can only be browsed by image. The collection page contains a complete list of all congregations available, including waypoint links to images from each church. Read More | ||||
| Westchester County Cemetery Records | Cemetery | Westchester County | Image Browse | View description |
| Transcribed gravestone inscriptions from cemeteries in Westchester County, New York. Researchers can browse digital images of these records, but they cannot currently be searched. The collection page contains a complete list of all cemeteries available, including waypoint links to view images from each cemetery. Read More | ||||
| Westchester County Religious Records | Religious Records | Westchester County | Text | View description |
| Transcribed genealogy records from churches in Westchester County, New York. Researchers can search these records by text and can browse digital images. The collection page contains a complete list of all congregations available, including waypoint links to images from each church. Read More | ||||
| WPA Historical Records Survey - New York State Research Volumes | Research Aids | All NY Counties | Image Browse | View description |
| The Historical Records Survey Project was an ambitious attempt at hiring unemployed clergy members, researchers, historians, teachers and lawyers. This helped assemble historical records that were intrinsic to government and vital records from churches. Part of this initiative, was creating inventories of ecclesiastical records of every church in every state. Read More | ||||
| Wyoming County Cemetery Records | Cemetery | Wyoming County | Image Browse | View description |
| Transcribed gravestone inscriptions from cemeteries in Wyoming County, New York. Researchers can browse digital images of these records, but they cannot currently be searched. The collection page contains a complete list of all cemeteries available, including waypoint links to view images from each cemetery. Read More | ||||