The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society seeks an editor for The Record. The current editor, Patricia Law Hatcher, FASG, is retiring at the end of 2010.

Continuously published since 1870, The Record is the second oldest genealogical journal in the country and one of the most distinguished. Published quarterly, it concentrates on people and places connected to New York City, State, and region and features compiled genealogies, solutions to problems, and unique source material.

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.

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.

Over the Memorial Day weekend, we will be moving to our temporary offices while we await the completion of our permanent new space. Starting on May 22nd, if you call us at our 212-755-8532 number, you’ll hear a recording that will give you our temporary phone number. There will also be some interruptions to our email service during our move, from May 22nd until May 26th. We should be in our temporary office, ready for business, on May 27th.

As we prepare to move into a new facility we are hoping to reduce inventory of our products. For the month of March ONLY the NYG&B is reducing the price on ALL books and periodicals by 50%! Books and periodicals can be purchased via our online store or by contacting our Publication Sales office publications@nygbs.org or 212-755-8532, ext. 32. This offer is only valid through March 31st.

All orders placed through our online store will be discounted manually by the Publications Department and you will receive a reply to your online order with a itemization of actual charges and the total amount to be charged to your credit card.

The NYG&B is pleased to provide its members with a new resource, available to members on their home computers:

NewspaperArchive.com Your portal to the past. 

Find family information from newspapers from across the country.

The Committee on Heraldry of the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society (NYG&B) is pleased to announce the 2008 recipient of its Medal for Heraldic Achievement: Robert Douglas Watt. Born in Picton, Ontario in 1945, Robert Watt was the first Chief Herald of Canada, appointed to that office in 1988 upon the establishment of the Canadian Heraldic Authority. He retired in 2007 after nineteen years in office, during which he oversaw the creation of a national heraldic system for Canada.

Mr. Watt will accept the Medal for Heraldic Achievement at a gala dinner on Wed., November 12, 2008 at the Racquet and Tennis Club, 370 Park Avenue, (52nd-53rd Sts.), Manhattan. Tickets start at $225 per person; call Melanie Ayala at 212-755-8532 or email mayala@nygbs.org. This event is open to the public; tickets must be purchased before Oct. 28, 2008.