Some New York City Records on Microfilm at the NYG&B Library

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Note. The references listed in the excellent bibliography below are no longer available at the NYG&B Library. They are, however, available at the New York Public Library where our collection is now housed.

The NYG&B Library has in its collection the microfilms listed below. Numerous reels of church and cemetery records are also available for many New York counties. Please see Some New York State Records on Microfilm at The NYG&B Library for a list of our New York State holdings. The Library’s collection is non-circulating.

Province/State of New York

  • Federal Census

    • Population Schedules 1790-1920;
    • Soundexes 1880, 1900, 1920;
    • Manufactures Schedule 1820;
    • Agricultural, Industrial, Mortality, Social Schedules 1850-1880;
    • Civil War Veterans Schedule 1890

  • State Census 1825-1925 (for all counties and years microfilmed)

  • Original Wills 1665-1738

  • Index to Wills 1665-1787

  • Will Libers main series 1665-1787;

    • Court of Probates 1787-1822;
    • Chancery Court 1830-1847;
    • Supreme Court 1799-1829

  • Wills proved at Albany, NY [and NYC] 1629-1802; index, 1629-1828

  • Index to Admininstrations 1743-1787

  • Letters of Administration 1743-1797 (pre-1743 Letters of Administrations are in Will Libers 1-15)

  • Administration Bonds 1753-1783

  • Original records of Administration of Estates, 1700-1825 and Inventories and Accounts, 1600s to 1700s

  • Inventories 1725-1753

  • Secretary of State Deeds (Vol. 1-31) 1659-1800, and Index

  • Land Patents (Vol. 1-18) 1664-1802, and Index

  • Chancery Court Minutes 1701-1847

  • Dutch Colonial Manuscripts 1638-1674

Bronx County and Borough

(for western Bronx before 1874 and eastern Bronx before 1895, see Westchester; after those dates to 1898, see New York County)

  • City directories (see New York County)

  • Births

    • South Mt. Vernon and Wakefield 1880-1895;
    • Town of Westchester 1881-1895;
    • Bronx Borough index 1898-1965

  • Marriages

    • South Mt. Vernon and Wakefield 1880-1895;
    • Town of Westchester 1882-1895;
    • Bronx Borough indexes (bride and groom) 1898-1937

  • Deaths

    • South Mt. Vernon and Wakefield 1878-1881, 1890-1895;
    • Town of Westchester 1887-1895;
    • Bronx Borough index 1898-1965

Kings County/Brooklyn Borough

  • Index to Wills 1787-1923

  • Will Libers 1787-1880

  • Index to Letters of Administration, 1787-1923

  • Letters of Administration 1787-1852

  • Grantor-Grantee Index 1683-1950

  • Deeds 1724-1850

  • City directories 1796, 1802-03, 1811-12, 1822-1902, 1905-10, 1912-13, 1924-25, 1933-34

  • Births

    • Flatbush 1847-1851, 1880-1894; index 1847-1851, 1880-1894;
    • Flatlands 1880-1895;
    • Gravesend and New Utrecht 1880-1894;
    • New Lots 1881-1886;
    • Brooklyn City 1869; index 1866-1897;
    • Brooklyn Borough index 1898-1965

  • Marriages

    • Flatbush 1847-1851;
    • Brooklyn City index (groom) 1894-1897;
    • Brooklyn Borough index (groom) 1898-1937

  • Deaths

    • Flatbush 1847-1851, 1880-1891; index 1847-1851, 1880-1891;
    • Flatlands 1880-1895;
    • Gravesend and New Utrecht 1880-1894;
    • New Lots 1881-1886;
    • Brooklyn City 1848-1853, 1857-1861; index 1848-1897;
    • Brooklyn Borough index 1898-1965

New York County and City/Manhattan Borough

  • Index to Wills 1787-1923

  • Original Wills 1815-1829

  • Will Libers 1787-1880

  • Mayor's Court Will Liber 1805-1824

  • Surrogate's Proceedings 1800-1812

  • Index to Administration 1787-1910

  • Letters of Administration 1787-1866

  • Petitions for Letters of Administration, 1830-1876

  • Administration Bonds 1789-1798

  • Index to Guardianships 1808-1910

  • Guardians' Bonds 1802-1829

  • Index to Divorces 1784-1910

  • Grantor-Grantee Index 1654-1890

  • Deeds 1654-1850

  • Mortgages 1754-1800

  • Assessment Rolls 1699-1733, scattered years 1790-1821

  • Film Series "Court and Civil Records of New Amsterdam and New York City":

    • Minutes of the Burgomasters and Schepens of New Amsterdam and of the Mayor and Aldermen of New York, 1653-1674
    • Minutes of the Orphanmasters Court 1655-1668
    • Registers of Notaries Walewyn van der Veen and Salomon Lachaire 1662-1664
    • Deeds and Mortgages 1654-1675
    • Powers of Attorney, Acknowledgments, Indentures of Apprentices, Inventories, Deeds, etc. 1651-1656
    • Indentures of Apprentices 1694-1707
    • Register of Freemen 1683-1775
    • Minutes, Court of General Sessions of the Peace 1683-1762

  • "Censuses" 1816, 1819, 1821

  • Police Census 1890

  • City directories 1786-1925, 1931, 1933-34

  • Births

    • Births index 1830-1897 (very few until 1853);
    • Manhattan Borough births index 1898-1965

  • Marriages

    • County marriages 1830-1854;
    • City marriages 1847-1848, 1853-1865;
    • indexes (bride and groom) 1866-1897;
    • Manhattan Borough marriage indexes (bride and groom) 1898-1937

  • Deaths

    • 1801-1865, 1866-1867;
    • index 1868-1897;
    • Manhattan Borough index 1898-1965
    • Coroner's Inquisitions, 1823-1898
    • Bodies in Transit, 1859-1894

Queens County and Borough

(county records, except for marriage records, include Nassau before 1899)

  • Index to Wills 1787-1922

  • Will Libers 1787-1852

  • Wills of Personal Estate, 1835-1881

  • Index to Administration 1787-1899

  • Letters of Administration 1792-1869

  • Special Administration 1830-1870

  • Index to Accounts, 1787-1899

  • Accounts, 1800-1880

  • Index to Probate Proceedings, 1787-1899

  • Probate Proceedings, 1830-1865

  • Index to Guardianships 1803-1920

  • Grantor-Grantee Index 1683-1951

  • Deeds [and early Wills] 1683-1850

  • Births

    • Town of Newtown 1847-1849, 1881-1897; index 1881-1897;
    • Long Island City 1871-1897; index 1871-1897;
    • Town of Flushing 1847-1849, 1881-1897; index 1881-1897;
    • Village of Flushing 1889-1897; index 1889-1897;
    • College Point 1889-1897; index 1889-1897;
    • Whitestone 1889-1897; index 1889-1897;
    • Town of Jamaica 1847-1849, 1881-1897; index 1881-1897;
    • Village of Jamaica 1889-1897; index 1889-1897;
    • Richmond Hill 1895-1897;
    • Far Rockaway 1889-1897;
    • Rockaway Beach 1897, index 1897;
    • Queens Borough index 1898-1965

  • Marriages

    • Town of Newtown 1847, 1881-1897;
    • Long Island City 1881-1897;
    • Town of Flushing 1847-1849, 1881-1897;
    • Village of Flushing 1889-1897;
    • College Point 1889-1897;
    • Whitestone 1889-1897;
    • Town of Jamaica 1847-1848, 1881-1897; index V-Z, 1881-1897;
    • Village of Jamaica 1889-1897;
    • Richmond Hill 1895-1897; index A-Smith 1895-1897;
    • Far Rockaway 1890-1897; index 1890-1897;
    • Rockaway Beach 1897, index 1897;
    • Queens Borough index (groom) 1881-1897, 1898-1937; index (bride) 1905-1937

  • Deaths

    • Town of Newtown 1881-1897; index 1881-1897;
    • Long Island City 1871-1897; index 1871-1897;
    • Town of Flushing 1847-1849, 1881-1897; index 1881-1897;
    • Village of Flushing 1889-1897;
    • College Point 1889-1897; index 1889-1897;
    • Whitestone 1889-1897; index 1889-1897;
    • Town of Jamaica 1847-1848; index only 1881-1897;
    • Village of Jamaica; index only 1889-1897;
    • Richmond Hill 1895-1897; index 1895-1897;
    • Far Rockaway 1889-1897; index 1889-1897;
    • Rockaway Beach 1897, index 1897;
    • Queens Borough index 1898-1965

Richmond County/Staten Island Borough

  • Index to Wills 1787-1959

  • Will Libers 1787-1829

  • Index to Administration 1787-1866

  • Index to Guardianships 1802-1866

  • Grantor-Grantee Index 1630-1973

  • Deeds 1683-1850

  • Mortgagor Index 1756-1973

  • Mortgages 1756-1850

  • Births

    • Castleton 1848-50, 1881-1897;
    • Middletown 1882-1897;
    • Edgewater 1885-1897;
    • Northfield 1847-50, 1881-1897;
    • Port Richmond 1888-1897;
    • Southfield 1848-1853, 1881-1897;
    • Westfield 1849, 1882-1897;
    • Tottenville 1890-1897;
    • Richmond County indexes 1847-1965

  • Marriages

    • Castleton 1848-50, 1881-1897;
    • Middletown 1882-1897;
    • Edgewater 1885-1897;
    • Northfield 1847-50, 1881-1897;
    • Port Richmond 1888-1897;
    • Southfield 1848-1853, 1881-1897;
    • Westfield 1849, 1882-1897;
    • Tottenville 1864, 1890-1897;
    • Richmond County indexes (bride and groom) 1882-1937

  • Deaths

    • Castleton 1848-50, 1881-1897;
    • Middletown 1882-1897;
    • Edgewater 1885-1897;
    • Northfield 1847-50, 1872, 1881-1897;
    • Port Richmond 1888-1897;
    • Southfield 1848-1853, 1881-1897;
    • Westfield 1849, 1882-1897;
    • Tottenville 1890-1897;
    • Richmond County index 1847-1965

 

Compiled by Catherine M. Ellard, Assistant Librarian

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