eLibrary

The New York State Religious Records (1639 - 1914) collection in our eLibrary contains religious records - including birth, marriage, and death records - for over 120...

The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society has over fifty digital record collections, which contain well over one million names. Visit the NYG&B eLibrary to see our...

Members of the NYG&B all receive voucher codes, which can be redeemed for a free Findmypast subscription. This special Starter Package for NYG&B Members includes access to...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

Early in the twentieth century, NYG&B members were asked to complete a four-page, ledger-sized questionnaire regarding the member's life and family. The stated purpose for the...

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...

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...