Released April 01!
Essential Resources for African American Research on the NYG&B Website
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Are you researching African American families from New York State? This kind of research can be amazingly complicated and full of brick walls.
Slavery Records in the Common Council Papers at the New York City Municipal Archives
Meryl Schumacker, NYG&B Record, vol. 149 (2018), no. 1: 21 - 38
Frans Abramse Van Salee and His Descendants: A Colonial Black Family in New York and New Jersey
Henry Hoff, NYG&B Record, vol 121 (1990) no. 2: 65-71; no. 3: 157-161; no. 4: 205-211.
Some Ancestors of Nelly Jane (Franklin) Lefevre: An African American of the Mid-Hudson Valley
Joan de Vries Kelley, NYG&B Record, vol 145 (2014) no. 4: 245-258; vol 146 (2015), no. 2: 107-116; no. 3: 187-197; no. 4: 283-298, 311; vol 147 (2016), no 1.
Swan Janse Van Luane: A Free Black in 17th Century Kings County
Henry Hoff, NYG&B Record, vol. 125 (1994), no. 2: 74-77.
Abstracts of Early Black Manhattanites
Richard Dickenson, NYG&B Record, vol. 116 (1985), no. 2: 100-104; no. 3: 169-173.
Researching African-American Families in New Netherland and Colonial New York and New Jersey
Henry Hoff, NYG&B Record, vol. 136, no. 2 (2005): 83-95.
Released January 15!
Overcoming research challenges through teamwork
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This blog post is written by Victoria Thomas, a student at Manhattan College who was part of one of our NYG&B Labs teams this summer.