Repositories

Spawned by the success of Huntington's 250th birthday celebration in 1903 a group of women, many of them members of Huntington's founding families, met to organize a society to "perpetuate an interest in things historic; . . .

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 

William Applebie Daniel Eardeley (1870-1935) was one of the most prolific New York genealogists of his time, and much of his work remains unpublished.

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.

James A. Kelly, Deputy County Clerk of Kings County from 1944 to 1971, arranged that the historical records of the county be turned over to St.

Rutgers University’s legendary archivist Donald A. Sinclair, for whom the university’s New Jersey collection is named, once remarked after using the New Jersey Room of the Jersey City Free Public Library,that it is a veritable “treasure trove”. .

When the Erie Canal was completed in 1825, linking New York City to Buffalo, a small frontier village became the second largest city in the Empire State. Waves of European immigrants arrived and many stayed for a few years or a few generations.

The Folklife Center, an uncommon collection of books, manuscripts, photographs, and ephemera from the history of upstate New York, has emerged as a hidden gem in the basement of Crandall Public Library in Glens Falls.

The Brewster Collection comprises 14 bound volumes and more than 7000 pages of handwritten and typed family records for more than a dozen generations of direct descendants of Elder William Brewster.