The NYG&B Blog Archive
Use this index to search through the more than two hundred NYG&B's blog posts.
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| Inside the Spring 2021 Issue of the New York Researcher | Volume 32 of the New York Researcher has arrived! Issue number 1, the Spring issue, is available to read online and in the mail. Read the "From the President" column and the table of… | |
| How to Find Photos of Any NYC Street Corner With OldNYC | With this useful website, you can access a database of photographs for many locations in New York City throughout the ages. OldNYC helps users search New York Public Library’s photographic… | |
| The Slave Dwelling Project & the Hands that Held the Bricks | Recently, Joseph McGill, the founder of the Slave Dwelling Project, spoke at an online event co-hosted by the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Jean Sampson Scott Greater New… | |
| New NY Records Online | With so many new genealogy records coming online around the web, it can be hard to keep up! Here is our roundup of some notable New York records that have debuted around the web in late 2020 and… | |
| Before the Five-borough City: The Old Cities, Towns, and Villages That Came Together to Form 'Greater New York' | The present City of New York, consisting of five boroughs, came into existence on January 1, 1898. This article focuses on what the five-borough city replaced. This is important because the… | |
| New NY Records Online: November and December 2020 | With so many new genealogy records coming online around the web, it can be hard to keep up! Here is our roundup of some notable New York records that have debuted around the web this November and… | |
| 5 Ways to Use The NYG&B Record Online Archive | The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record is a crucial resource for researching your New York ancestors. This peer-reviewed journal has been published continually since… | |
| Spiritualism, a New York Heritage | When I recently discovered my great-grandmother, Bertha Krech née Sturm, was an early 20th century Spiritualist minister in Rochester, New York, my need to know more was voracious. What was her… | |
| Using the NYG&B's Religious Records Collection | Our Online Records Platform features religious records—including birth, marriage, and death records—from over 120 congregations across New York State. The NYG&B originally preserved the… | |
| Orphan Trains: A Brief History and Research How-to | The phenomenon of orphan trains is a fascinating and upsetting aspect of New York’s history which has captured the imagination of genealogists and popular culture alike. From 1854 to 1929, hundreds… |