Beginning in 1990 The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society has published a quarterly newsletter, which is mailed to all members and also to libraries that subscribe to the Record. Beginning with the Winter 2004 issue, the name of our newsletter is The New York Researcher. The Researcher carries reports on the Society's activities and news of other current events relevant to genealogy in New York State. The Genealogical Exchange is the queries section of the Researcher. Each member of the Society may have their queries published in this section; up to 100 words per issue free. Non-members may also have their queries published for a fee of $10 for up to 100 words. All queries are also posted to the website.
The feature articles of the Researcher have made it a particularly useful research tool for New York genealogists. These articles cover topics such as
- Descriptions of sources for New York genealogy, such as probate records, church records, census records, with emphasis on those held by the NYG&B Library.
- Descriptions of holdings of other New York State libraries and record repositories.
- "How to" articles on New York genealogical research, both statewide and for particular counties or cities, religious or ethnic groups, or time periods
- Lists of accounts of New York families "hidden" in multi-family works, manuscript collections, and periodicals
- Articles on New York families published in other periodicals, past and present
If you would like to write an article for the Researcher please contact
the editor.
The NYG&B Newsletter/Researcher indexes are now available
for download in Microsoft Word format. We are grateful to NYG&B
member Dee Snook who compiled and contributed the index and table
of contents of issues 7-16 of the Newsletter/Researcher to be posted
to our website.
Recent issues have included these feature articles:
Spring 2009 (vol. 20, no. 1)
- "Meet the Staff of the New York Public Library: Maira Liriano, MLS"
- "Household Genealogy," by Lauren Maehrlein
- "A Note on the Causes of Death in New York City, 1877," by Dee Snook
Fall 2008 (vol. 19, no. 4)
- "(More) German Marriages in New York City," by Francis A. Biebel
- "The Department of History and Archives: Montgomery County," by Kelly Yacobucci Farquhar
- "Oyster Bay Publications Available Free Online," by Harry Macy Jr.
- "But I'm Not German: What's New on the German Genealogy Group Web Site," by Seth J. Bookey, MLS
Summer 2008 (vol. 19, no. 3)
- "New Yorkers to the Great Plains," by David McDonald, CG
- "Researching in Huntington: The Resource Center and Archives of the Huntington Historical Society," by Arthur F. Sniffin
- "Facebook's© Genealogical Possiblities," by Seth J. Bookey
Spring 2008 (vol. 19, no. 2)
- "Research Success Story: With Help from The New York Researcher's 'Genealogical Exchange,'" by Cliff, Dave, and Jimes Simes, with Meredith Lynsey Schade
- "New Yorkers Buried in Flanders Field: A Recap," compiled by Christopher Sims and Patrick Lernout
Winter 2008 (vol. 19, no. 1)
- "Researching Schenectady County History and Genealogy," by Robert G. Sullivan, MLS, and Katherine Chansky, MLS
- "Treasures of the NYG&B: Member Biographies," by Lauren Maehrlein
- "Reunions Keep the Family Closer: One Family's Recipe for Maintaining Far-Flung Connections," by Melanie McLaurin
The Researcher is edited by Lauren Maehrlein, NYG&BS Director of Education. Back issues are available for sale and a listing of available issues can be obtained by emailing publications@nygbs.org or by calling 212-755-8532, ext. 207.
What Will You Find in the Record?
Every issue
of the Record contains a mix of articles and regular features.
The articles may be any of the following types:
Compiled
genealogies of families that lived in New York or adjacent areas,
usually beginning with the immigrant and continuing for three to five
generations. These articles illustrate the proper use of sources available
for a particular time and place and a proper method of presenting genealogy
in print.
Solutions
to specific problems illustrating the application of research techniques
to difficult areas of New York genealogy, and often correcting previously
published work.
Immigrant
origins of New York family founders are constantly being discovered,
and these articles show the sources that are available for this type
of research and how they were utilized in particular cases.
Source
material transcribed or abstracted from original New York records
may include church registers; tax rolls, censuses, or other lists of
inhabitants; muster rolls; newspaper extracts; wills; deeds; or naturalization
records. The Record also publishes private family records, such
as those found in Bibles. 
Contents
of Recent Issues
For
a subject index to all articles in the Record 1983-2005
click here
January 2009 Vol. 140 No. 1
- Captain William Bond: An Elusive Connection Made
- Lenaerts and Sassenbroeck: Ancestors of the Nevius Family of New Netherland
- The Fick Family: From the Duchy of Nassau to New York City, 1790s
- Two Hook Family Bible Records, Albany
- Van Tine Family Bible Record, Onondaga County
- Marriages Recorded in the Register of the English Lutheran Church, New York City, 1794—1810
- Strays and Ear Marks, Queensbury, Warren County, 1767—1808
- New York Society Library Charter, 1772
- Marriages from The Ladies' Monitor and The Weekly Visitor or Ladies' Miscellany, New York City, 1801—1803
- "I Have Raised the Rent": Philipsburgh Manor, 1760
- Walkill Lutheran/Harrison Meeting House, Montgomery, Orange County (continued)
October 2008 Vol. 139 No. 4
- Johannes and Isaac Simonson-Two More Sons of Symon Hansen of Flatbush
- The Wife of John 4 Skillman of Newtown and New Jersey-Not the Alleged Nancy Paynter
- New York Probates Recorded in Massachusetts, 1688–1689, During the Dominion of New England
- Barent Myndertse of Albany, His Wife Ida Barents, and their Daughter Eytie, Wife of Johannes Van Zandt
- Some Effects of the Summer Fevers on New York City
- Marriages from The Lady's Magazine and Musical Repository, New York City, 1801
- Rollinson Family Bible Record, Rahway, New Jersey
- Unrecorded Deeds, Westchester County
- Walkill Lutheran/Harrison Meeting House, Montgomery, Orange County (continued)
- Deaths Recorded by the First Presbyterian Church, New York City, 1798 (continued)
July 2008 Vol. 139 No. 3
- The 1708 Palatines of Ulster County
- Naturalizations in the New York Secretary of State Deeds
- The 1715 Naturalization Act in the Colonial Laws of New York
- Irish Origins of Mark Francis [O'] Malley of Washington County
- Connecting Alvin Joslyn of Buffalo, Erie County to His 1860 Census Family
- Dusochany [Disosway] Heirs in the Colonial Laws of New York
- Du Soison/Disoway and Rossignol/Nachtegall of Staten Island/Richmond County
- Origins of Louis Laeckeman/Lakeman of Staten Island and His Wife Esther Castel
- The McNeill Family of Carlisle, Schoharie County (concluded)
- Lyman Bradway Bible Record, Jefferson and Lewis Counties
- Walkill Lutheran/Harrison Meeting House, Montgomery, Orange County
April 2008 Vol. 139 No. 2
- Jacob De Lange, Surgeon of New York City, His Origins and Descendants: Blanck, Stephens, Wendel, Woodside
- Ancestry of William7 Tefft of Herkimer and Oneida Counties
- Peter3 Tefft and Occam's Razor
- The Arcularius Family of New York City
- The McNeill Family of Carlisle, Schoharie County
- De Coninick, De Riviere, Lynsen: Immigrants from Groede, Zeeland (concluded)
- Burials, Carmine Street Presbyterian Church, New York City, 1835-1838
- Nathaniel Bailey Family Record, Greenport, Long Island
- Captivity and Pirates in the New York Secretary of State Deeds
- Pirate Activity, New York, 1717, 1718, in the State Papers, Colonial
- Payments for Service, 1708, in the Colonial Laws of New York
- Necrology
- Deaths Recorded by the First Presbyterian Church, New York City, 1797 (continued)
January 2008 Vol. 139 No. 1
- De Coninick, De Riviere, Lynsen: Immigrants from Groede, Zeeland
- Parents for Catharine Sophia (Dodge) MacCorkle of Poughkeepsie, New York City, and Pennsylvania
- Dodge Bible Records
- Thomas2 Theunissen Quick and Rymerick2 Jurians Westfall of Ulster County
- Reymerigh-An Unusual Given Name Ties Together the Norstrand Family
- The Brandeis, Goldmark, and Wehle Families: '48ers of New York City (concluded)
- Tax Lyste Van D Stadt En County Van Albany 1708/9 (Tax List of the City and County of Albany)
- The Marriage and Birth Register of the Family of Henderick [sic] Van Neste
- Records of Charles Titus, J.P., New Baltimore, Greene County, 1808—1817
- Manumissions and Certificates of Freedom in the New York Secretary of State Deeds
October 2007 Vol. 138, No. 4
- DNA Analysis: Adam1 Brouwer Berckhoven, Elias Brouwer of New Jersey, and John Brewer of Ohio
- Jan1 Brouwer of Flatlands and Descendants
- The Brandeis, Goldmark, and Wehle Families: '48ers of New York City
- Identification of the Husband of Hannah Bird, Daughter of Thomas Dimon of East Hampton
- Finding the Parents of John Moore of Orange County
- Sarah (Kip) Crane Scudder and Her Revolutionary-War-Officer Husbands
- New York City Hospital Subscription List: 1773—1775
- Brayton Family Record, Herkimer County
- Abstracts from the Western Constellation and the Catskill Recorder, Catskill, Greene County, 1803—1805 (concluded)
- Deaths Recorded by the First Presbyterian Church, New York City, 1796 (continued)
July 2007 (Vol. 138, No. 3)
- William Loveridge [Leveridge[, Hatter of Albany and Ulster County
- Kentish Roots of Baker and Dayton of East Hampton
- The Elizabeth-Town Answer, 1751
- Pierre Parmentier of New Amsterdam and Descendants (concluded)
- The Minthorn family of New York City (concluded)
- Cholera Records, July and August 1832, Albany (concluded)
- The Western Constellation and the Catskill Recorder, Catskill (continued)
- Indentures of the Poor Children of Orange County (concluded)
- Deaths, First Presbyterian Church, New York City (continued)
- Annual Meeting - 2007
April 2007 (Vol. 138, No. 2)
- Pierre Parmentier of New Amsterdam and His Descendants
- Alpharetta and Asa D. Phillips of Grafton, Rensselaer County
- The Minthorn Family of New York City
- The Samuel Bennett Family
- Mathia/Maike (schoonmaker) Shontz of Ulster County
- Cholera Records, July and August 1832, Albany
- The Western Constellation and the Catskill Recorder, Catskill (continued)
- Indentures of the Poor Children of Orange Coutny (continued)
- Deaths, First Presbyterian Church, New York City (continued)
January 2007 (Vol. 138, No. 1)
- The Family of Asa Brainard (1840 - 1888), BAseball Pioneer
- Amsterdam Records of Douwe Harmensen Talma
- Identifying the Wife of Barnabas Brooks of Otsego Coutny
- Jannetje Jaspers Courtois of New York and Delaware
- Robert and Mary (Davis) Waddle of Poughkeepsie
- Paternal Ancestry of David and Sarah Piffard (Concluded)
- Stephen Crosfield Family Record
- A List of Coffins Made by Peter Titus Hewlett in Near Rockaway
- The Western Constellation and the Catskill Recorder, Catskill
- Deaths, First Presbyterian Church, New York City (Continued)
Regular
Features of Each Issue
Book Reviews
are an important feature of every issue. Books donated to the NYG&B may be the subject of brief but critical reviews, provided they are relevant
to research on New York families. Authors and publishers are encouraged
to donate review copies of their books to the Library, specifying that
they are requesting a review in the Record, and giving price and
ordering information.
Subscription
Information
A subscription
to the Record is included with membership
in the Society. For libraries, a subscription to the Record and
the Researcher is available for $30 per year.
Indexes
An every-name index is published separately at the end
of each year, and mailed with the following January issue. An index to
over 1,000,000 names found in all issues from 1870 through 1998 has been
compiled by Mrs. Jean D. Worden and is available from the Society on
CD-ROM. This CD also contains lists of Record articles by title, author,
and date. See our Catalog, which is available online in Adobe Acrobat™ (PDF)
format: catalog.pdf
Articles in the Record are indexed by subject in the PERiodical
Source Index, or PERSI (1870-to date), available at HeritageQuest Online.
A more detailed subject index is The New York Genealogical and Biographical
Record 113 Years Master Index 1870-1982, by Jean D. Worden, currently
out of print but available in many libraries. To supplement Mrs. Worden's
index the Society has published Subject Index to Articles in The New
York Genealogical and Biographical Record 1983-2005, which is available
online.
Standard
Source Abbreviations
Articles published
in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record between 1933
and 1996 had sources cited in the text, and the citations used a standard
set of abbreviations or acronyms for major New York sources. A
list of abbreviations is available in Research Aids.
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Back issues
All issues of the Record from 1870 through 1960 are now available on a series of CD-ROMs published by the Society. Copies will be made of Record articles for a fee of $5.00 plus .35 per page and the cost of postage. Copies are available for purchase by emailing publications@nygbs.org or calling the Publication Sales Department at (212) 755-8532, ext 209.
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