New York City

This article is a list of towns, formation dates and other details related to New York County municipalities.  

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.

Inmates in orange uniforms take a break from their duties of burying the dead in Potter's Field on Hart Island to play basketball behind a high metal fence.

My New York research centers on the family of Col. John Moore (1686–1749) and the related family names of Lambert, Barberie, Axtell, Holland, Bayard, Hoffman, and Livingston.

In Historic Richmond Town, an outdoor museum village comprised of 28 historic Staten Island houses and early (and working) workshops and buildings, is the old red-brick school building that now serves as the home of the Library of 

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.

Rev. Francis J. Schneider arrived in New York sometime during or before 1869 with his wife, Cecelia, and their two sons,¹ and immediately set to work. He was a Protestant minister unconnected to any established church.

Andrew Jackson Provost, Jr. (1867-1963) was a civil engineer with a lifelong interest in genealogy.

A useful work for finding families in New York and in New Jersey before 1900 is Henry Pennington Toler, The New Harlem Register: A genealogy of the descendants of the twenty-three original Patentees of the Town of New Harlem, containing pr