As of Thursday, December 31, 2009, NewspaperArchives.com has discontinued remote access to their online databases for all genealogical societies. However, our e-Library continues to grow with offerings of particular interest to New York researchers. Additions to and improvements of our Members' Area will be announced in our upcoming publications and via our monthly e-Newsletter.

Do you have an ancestor who was a Mayflower passenger and have an interest in joining the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of New York? Sarah Morse, Executive Director, will explain in detail the process for documenting your application and becoming part of that organization.

The Education Committee of the NYG&B is very pleased to once again offer tours to the Federal and Municipal Archives, the New York Public Library, the New-York Historical Society, and the Brooklyn Historical Society. Please join us for in-depth introductions to the holdings of some of the City’s most genealogically relevant collections.

New York Public Library and The New York Genealogical & Biographical Society will once again be co-sponsoring a series of free lectures at the New York Public Library.

2009’s Research trip to Albany was a great success. Please view the photos taken during the three days our group spent in the New York State capital.

The NYG&B, in collaboration with the Holland Society, and the New York Public Library, completed a very successful and highly praised program, “Finding Your New Netherland Roots,” 10 - 12 September 2009. The New York Public Library provided our venue and a total of 80 registrants participated. The program consisted of a full day of lectures, a day of assisted research in the Milstein Division of Local History and Genealogy at the NYPL and at the Holland Society Library, a “Culinary Heritage Dinner” at the Algonquin Hotel, and Saturday walking tours. Attendees came from far and wide, from Ontario to southern California, and gave high marks to the speakers, consultants, dinner, and tours.  Please take a look at the program photos and, if you have any that you’d like to see online, please send them along to education@nygbs.org.

You are invited to join the new G&B or renew your membership online. We have just introduced a new two-year membership that saves money while providing all of the same benefits:

Benefits of membership include subscriptions to our two quarterly publications, the Record and the New York Researcher, and discounts on other publications; four free queries per year in the New York Researcher (also on our website); access to the NYG&B Community Bulletin Board; remote access to Early American Newspapers, the NYG&B e-Library through the NYG&B's website; a discount on membership to WorldVitalRecords.com; and reduced fees for educational programs.
Current members who are renewing, click here. If you’re joining the NYG&B for the first time, click here.

We are in the process of uploading nearly 550 member biographies to the E-Library in the G&B Members’ Area!

This collection is an extraordinarily valuable addition to historians and to researchers whose family members may have belonged to the Society in the first half of the 20th century.