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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| How to Get the Most from a Research Trip | It’s on your list—visiting that repository you hope will have the key to answering a longstanding family history mystery. Or, perhaps you have multiple places to visit… | |
| New York Vital Record Substitutes: Religious Records | Vital records—records of birth, marriage, and death events—are some of the most important records to pursue when piecing together your family history. Some states in America have complete, well-… | |
| Crown Agents on the Hudson: John Burnet’s New York Story | On Friday, June 7, 1750, a coroner named John Burnet probably woke up thinking he was going to have a normal workday. As Francis Sypher detailed in the NYG&B’s “Minutes of Coroner’s Proceedings”… | |
| Tips for Finding Your Immigrant Ancestors | The stories of our immigrant ancestors are inspiring and fascinating - the genealogical records that help us piece together how, when, and why our ancestors immigrated to America are some of the… | |
| Download the Summer Issue of the New York Researcher for Free! | The New York Researcher is our colorful quarterly magazine sent to all NYG&B members - it can also be read or downloaded as a PDF on our website. In celebration of our 150th Anniversary, we… | |
| Essential Steps to Find a New York State Marriage Record | Marriage records can be some of the most valuable documents that you uncover while researching your New York ancestors. Marriage is often an important life event, so an official record of … | |
| Live Genealogy Q&A Video Replay | We hosted another Live Genealogy Q&A this past Thursday on Facebook. We had many great questions, hundreds of live viewers, and shared some great tips about genealogy research in New York State.… | |
| The Colonial Period of Putnam County: The South Precinct of Dutchess County | The NYG&B Blog is proud to present an excerpt of Pamela Ricciardi Paschke's recent feature article from the Spring 2019 issue of the New York Researcher magazine. Pamela is an expert… | |
| New Kinship NY Titles Available Now | In early 2019, the NYG&B assumed the operation of Kinship Books, the well-known genealogical publishing company of Arthur and Nancy Kelly. Kinship Books began more than 50 years ago,… | |
| New York State Substitutes for the Lost 1890 Census | Many family history researchers are aware that the 1890 Federal Census population schedules were almost completely destroyed following a fire in 1921. Missing this broad and important record set… |