In 2005 the NYG&B Collection acquired 199 reels of microfilm containing the famous “Walloon Index” or Collection des Fiches of the Bibliothèque Wallonne in Leiden, The Netherlands.
New York Genealogy Research Tips
The Calendar and Colonial New York
The Calendar and Colonial New York
All colonial genealogists learn that Britain and its colonies changed from the old style (Julian) calendar to the new style (Gregorian) calendar on January 1,1752.
The 1911 State Library Fire And Its Effect On New York Genealogy
Seversmith's Colonial Families
A useful work for New York research (and Long Island in particular) is Herbert Furman Seversmith, Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut (5 vols., 1939-58, Washington, D.C., privately printed) and two
Researching New York Dutch Families: A Checklist Approach
As anyone who has worked on colonial New York or New Jersey families can tell you, researching families whose baptisms, marriages and burials occur in Dutch Reformed Church records can be quite rewarding.
Provost's Early Settlers of Bushwick
Andrew Jackson Provost, Jr. (1867-1963) was a civil engineer with a lifelong interest in genealogy.
Principal Families in The New Harlem Register
A useful work for finding families in New York and in New Jersey before 1900 is Henry Pennington Toler, The New Harlem Register: A genealogy of the descendants of the twenty-three original Patentees of the Town of New Harlem, containing pr
Manors in New York (Part One)
One of the unique aspects of New York history was the existence of manors as political and judicial units in the colonial era.
Mackenzie's Families of Philipsburgh
Compiled accounts of many Westchester County families are contained in “The Families of the Colonial Town of Philipsburgh, Westchester County, N.Y.,” a four-volume typescript by Grenville C. Mackenzie [NYG&B Library MS. T 1.1].