St. Luke’s Church was started in 1850 by Rev. William Drees and a small group of his Dutch Reformed congregation.
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.
Using the NYG&B's Religious Records Collection
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Religious Records
Our Online Records Platform features religious records—including birth, marriage, and death records—from over 120 congregations across New York State.
New York Vital Record Substitutes: Religious Records
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Religious Records
Vital records—records of birth, marriage, and death events—are some of the most important records to pursue when piecing together your family history. Some states in America have complete, well-preserved vital records that date back well into the 1700s or even earlier—but not New York!
Inventory of Manhattan Records from the Archives of the Episcopal Diocese of New York at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
This inventory lists the records available to researchers in the Archives of the Episcopal Diocese of New York at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
The Vosburgh Collection of New York Church Records
Between 1913 and 1921, Royden Woodward Vosburgh (1875-1931) transcribed for The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society records of some 94 New York State Protestant churches, in 104 volumes.
Religious Records of Queens and Nassau Counties
Queens County was created in 1683 as one of the original counties of the colony or province of New York. It included what are today the counties of Queens and Nassau (and Lloyd's Neck, ceded to Suffolk County in 1886).
Hudson Valley Research: The East Side
Guides and General Resources
- Roger D. Joslyn, "New York," in Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County & Town Sources, rev.ed. (1992) pp. 521-40
A New Look at the Newton (L.I.) Presbyterian Church Records
We often use abstracts of original sources because of convenience, especially when they are regarded as reliable.