This index of New York State records contains references to city directories, tax lists, church records, military rosters, Bible records, and much more. From the late 1600s to the early 1900s, these...
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Early New York Families, 1600s-1900s
This index includes references to more than 338,000 people across the entire state of New York. Family histories like these can be hard to find because they are not frequently published for...
New York in the Revolution and War of 1812 Military Records
This index of books describes New York's participation in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, referencing approximately 217,000 individuals, and includes references to military diaries, muster...
New York Revolutionary War Records, 1775-1840
This lookup index includes information gathered from various sources, including muster and payrolls, historical essays, biographies, meeting minutes, correspondence, land records, and town records.
Marriage Index: New York #2, 1740s-1880s
Request a free lookup from this index. This index includes nearly 100,000 individuals married in New York from the mid-1700s to the late 1800s. The marriage records in this database are sourced from...
Marriage Index: Selected Areas of New York, 1639-1916
Request a free lookup from this index. Discover marriage details for approximately 152,000 individuals from various regions of New York, covering 1639 to 1916. This index features some of the...
1870 New York City, New York & Long Island Census Index
This resource indexes about 500,000 census records from the five counties that made up New York City in 1870. These counties are Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond, and Suffolk.
Passenger and Immigration Lists: New York, 1820-1850
Passenger lists are one of the most important first sources of information about the arrival of most immigrants to the United States in the 1800s. In the mid-1800s, immigrants (particularly Irish...
Marriage Index: New York City, 1600s-1800s
This index provides information on more than 411,000 individuals who married in or around New York City from 1622 to 1899. Most records (over 90%) were recorded within New York City and its boroughs...
Genealogical Records: New York, 1675-1920
This resource is a comprehensive index of more than 600,000 individuals who lived in New York between 1675 and 1920. It indexes New York records, including passenger lists, land records, city...
New York Deaths, the 1700s-1900s
This data comes from a wide range of local sources, including town records, cemeteries, churches, and newspapers. The information provided here is especially valuable because it comes from local...
Early Settlers of New York State, 1760-1942
The information provided is sourced from a two-volume set titled "Early Settlers of New York State".
The State Capitals: New York
Albany is the capital of the state of New York and has been since 1797. However, Europeans were living at Albany for about a century and a half before that, and Native Americans prior to that. Albany...
American Folklore: New York
New York has a long and interesting history going back thousands of years to Native American times. It has been a French fur trapping outpost, a Dutch colony, a British colony, and one of the...
Edward Rutherfurd on New York
Strangely, I suspect it was Viking ancestors who drew me to New York. For centuries my father’s family lived on Britain’s biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade...