Guides and General Resources

• Roger D. Joslyn, "New York," in Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County & Town Sources, rev.ed. (1992) pp. 521-40

This article is a continuation of Manors in New York (Part 1). It contains notable manors of New York, organized alphabetically by name.

The New-York Historical Society [NYHS] was founded in 1804 — when New York was often spelled with a hyphen.

Among the larger manuscript holdings of The NYG&B Library is the Innes Getty Collection.

Since 1924 valuable material relating to the history and genealogy of the Albany area has been appearing in The Dutch Settlers Society of Albany Yearbook [NYG&B call number N.Y. L AL13.92].

Note: This article has not been updated since it was originally published in 1991.

New York is fortunate to have several excellent historical periodicals containing a variety of articles that are useful to genealogists—if genealogists only could find the articles, had the time to read them, and knew how to read them.

A useful work for New York research (and Long Island in particular) is Herbert Furman Seversmith, Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut (5 vols., 1939-58, Washington, D.C., privately printed) and two

As anyone who has worked on colonial New York or New Jersey families can tell you, researching families whose baptisms, marriages and burials occur in Dutch Reformed Church records can be quite rewarding.

A useful work for finding families in New York and in New Jersey before 1900 is Henry Pennington Toler, The New Harlem Register: A genealogy of the descendants of the twenty-three original Patentees of the Town of New Harlem, containing pr