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Using the NYG&B's Religious Records Collection
Our Online Records Platform features religious records—including birth, marriage, and death records—from over 120 congregations across New York State.
The NYG&B originally...
How to Activate Your Access to NYG&B Online Records
A benefit of membership in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society is access to our online records, many of which cannot be accessed anywhere else online.
Most of...
From Our eLibrary: The Diaries Of John E. Lewis 1880-1956
ohn E. Lewis was a New York resident who wrote in his diaries every day for seventy-seven years and captured life in New York during the era.
Mr. Lewis began writing his diaries...
From Our eLibrary: New York State Cemetery Abstracts
The NYG&B’s eLibrary collection of cemetery abstracts of New York State (and bordering locations) comprises records from New York State cemeteries, some dating back to the mid...
From Our eLibrary: NYC Surrogate's Office, Abstracts Of Inventories 1730-1752, 1775-1786
“This volume is now much ill used and very little cared for in that office,” wrote J.H. Jones in 1898 of the inventories for 1730-52 which resided in the Surrogate’s Office in...
From Our eLibrary: Harlem Cemetery, Dutch Church Disinterments 1869-1875
Prompted by New York City's northward growth, the Consistory of the Dutch Reformed Church of Harlem purchased a plot in Woodlawn Cemetery in 1869. The remains interred in its old...
From Our Online Collections: American Bible Society Collection Family Records
Since its founding in 1816, the American Bible Society has developed an extraordinary collection of bibles in most of the world’s languages. Many of the bibles in the ABS...
From Our eLibrary: New York, New Amsterdam Minutes Of The Orphanmasters 1655-1663
The eLibrary contains the two volumes entitled Minutes of the Orphanmasters of New Amsterdam 1655 to 1663,translated and edited by former New York State archivist Berthold Fernow...
From Our eLibrary: Female Descendants of Elder William Brewster
After being carefully inspected by John R. Totten, a member of the NYG&B Society, it was declared in 1913 that the records of the female descendants of Elder William Brewster...
From Our Online Collections: The New York Researcher
The New York Researcher is the NYG&B’s award winning quarterly newsletter. Each issue covers informative subjects in New York genealogy, news, book reviews, announcements and...
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