In 2005 the NYG&B Collection acquired 199 reels of microfilm containing the famous “Walloon Index” or Collection des Fiches of the Bibliothèque Wallonne in Leiden, The Netherlands.
Released January 25!
Released January 25!
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Released May 06!
Researching New York Dutch Families: A Checklist Approach
As anyone who has worked on colonial New York or New Jersey families can tell you, researching families whose baptisms, marriages and burials occur in Dutch Reformed Church records can be quite rewarding.
Hoffman's 'Settlers From The Netherlands In America Before 1700'
Between 1932 and 1954 the Record published many brilliant articles by William J. Hoffman on the Dutch origins of early New York families.
From Our eLibrary: New York, New Amsterdam Minutes Of The Orphanmasters 1655-1663
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Colonial, Dutch
The eLibrary contains the two volumes entitled Minutes of the Orphanmasters of New Amsterdam 1655 to 1663,translated and edited by former New York State archivist Berthold Fernow and published in 1902.
Reformed Church Records of New York City (Manhattan & Bronx)
Originally published in The NYG&B Newsletter, Spring 1994, updated to July 2017
This article covers the Dutch Reformed (and some German Reformed) churches of New York City, beginning with 17th century New Amsterdam.
Digitizing Dutch Records at the New York State Archives
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Colonial, Dutch, NYSA
This blog post is based on an article by James D. Folts, PhD, FGBS and Monica Gray, entitled "Dutch Records at the New York State Archives and the Current Digitization Project" in the most recent issue of the New York Researcher.