This article is a list of towns, formation dates and other details related to Kings County municipalities.
This guide for Kings County contains a detailed list of resources for those researching families that lived there. The guide includes a map of municipalities, a brief county history, as well as links to county, local and regional repositories, resources, and societies. A selected bibliography is also available, along with other links that researchers will find highly valuable.
Following are the subject families in the Arthur Soper Wardwell Collection at the Brooklyn Historical Society. Arthur Soper Wardwell, F.A.S.G.
Before traveling to the Queens County Surrogate's Court for an early probate proceeding — perhaps only to learn that the file is missing or to be informed that it is too late that day to order a file — one is well advised to first check the collec
Between 1886 and 1929 the newspaper Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an annual almanac, "A Book of Information, General of the World, and Special of New York City and Long Island," as the 1914 edition is sub-titled.
It should be stated at the outset that researchers can find this phase of genealogy most difficult, the researcher with expertise in New York City sources being no exception.