The NYG&B Blog Archive
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| Searching for Records in Hamilton County, NY | Happy 200th anniversary Hamilton County!! Hamilton County is located in north-central New York. It is one of two New York counties whose territories lie entirely within Adirondack Park. … | |
| NYC Clerk's Marriage Indexes Available on the Internet Archive | Images of the indexes to the New York City Clerk’s collection of marriage affidavits, licenses, and certificates may now be accessed for free through the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/… | |
| From Our eLibrary: NYC Surrogate's Office, Abstracts Of Inventories 1730-1752, 1775-1786 | “This volume is now much ill used and very little cared for in that office,” wrote J.H. Jones in 1898 of the inventories for 1730-52 which resided in the Surrogate’s Office in Manhattan. … | |
| Searching for Records in Essex County, NY | Modern Essex County formed in 1799 after separating from Clinton County. It is named for the city of Essex in Great Britain. The county is located in northeast New York, the eastern… | |
| Searching for Records in Genesee County, NY | Genesee County is located in Western New York. The county is bordered by Orleans County in the North, Monroe and Livingston Counties in the East, Wyoming County in the South, and Niagara and Erie… | |
| Searching for Records in Franklin County, NY | Franklin County was formed on March 11, 1808, from Clinton County, and named for Benjamin Franklin. The county seat is in the Village of Malone. The first European settlements were made… | |
| New York Records on FamilySearch | Your ancestors may be hiding . . . did you know that not all records on FamilySearch are indexed and therefore will not appear when you search for a name? Recently FamilySearch has created an easier… | |
| From Our eLibrary: New York State Cemetery Abstracts | The NYG&B’s eLibrary collection of cemetery abstracts of New York State (and bordering locations) comprises records from New York State cemeteries, some dating back to the mid-seventeenth century… | |
| Searching for Records in Cayuga County, NY | Around 3500 B.C., Native Americans were the first to make their home in the area that would become Cayuga County, settling on the banks of Cayuga Lake. By 1000 A.D., the descendants of the first… | |
| From Our eLibrary: The Diaries Of John E. Lewis 1880-1956 | ohn E. Lewis was a New York resident who wrote in his diaries every day for seventy-seven years and captured life in New York during the era. Mr. Lewis began writing his diaries on January 1,… |