Project: New York
Categories: New York | New York Projects | New York Project
This project is part of the United States Project. 
Welcome to the New York Project!
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The purpose of this project is to coordinate all New York related projects and resources and combine that information into one place.
New York Counties with Links to County Projects in Bold
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How to Join United States Project and New York Project
The coordinator for the New York Project is Susan McNamee.
It is not necessary that you be related to someone who lived in the state of New York or live there yourself to join. Anyone with an interest is welcome! If you would like to participate, please do the following:
- Answer the United States Project G2G welcome post and you will be awarded the United States Project badge. Make sure to include the State (s) that you are interested in.
- Add united_states and New_York to your list of followed tags. That way you'll see all of our discussions in your G2G Feed.
- Add the {{New York Project Member}} Sticker to your profile
- Please see our list of goals and tasks below for ways you can help.
For a full list of United States Project participants, see the badge report.
The Category Category:New York Project Members lists all current members of the New York Project.
New York Project Members
The original Project Members are:
- Susan McNamee - Leader
The sticker shown above is for use on profiles of New York Project members. It also adds the Category:New York Project Members to their profile. To add the sticker, copy/paste the following into your profile:
It should be placed somewhere below the first heading on the profile. See Help:Stickers for details.
Goals
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The overall goals of the United States Project are to create and develop profiles on WikiTree for those who lived in New York and the other states in the union. To meet these goals:
- Add New York-related profiles, checking for existing profiles to avoid duplication. If any duplicate profiles exist, request merges, starting with the oldest generation.
- If profiles were loaded by GEDCOM, use WikiTree Styles and Standards to clean up residue and broken links.
- Search out original rather than derivative documentation and add sources.
- Write comprehensive, well-sourced biographies.
- Make sure profiles of all family members are correct and documented.
- Profiles need to be linked to the greater WikiTree. Try to find the connection.
List of Things To Do
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The following are some things that you could do to help:
- Need more One Place Study Space pages created and developed for New York counties and linked to this page. Would you like to lead a county project?
- If you have any New York state resources that you have created, please add them to the Category:New York Genealogy Resources
- If you live in New York, please consider adding the following category on your profile: Category:New York Research Assistance
Ongoing List of Things to Do
- New York, Cemeteries need to be photographed and the categories added to profiles on WikiTree. See the [[Project:New York Cemeteries|New York Cemeteries Project]
- Help develop the Native Americans Project with information about New York state tribes.
- Work on New York's unconnected profiles and unsourced profiles. See #Suggestions below.
- Add profiles for the men who died in World War I, serving from New York for the New York in the Great War project and for the Roll of Honor project.
Templates
Project Box Template
The project box template is {{United States|sub-project=New York}} which will give you:
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This template is for use only on profiles that are of importance to the project and need to be project-protected or managed by the project. It is not for every single person from New York. A sticker might be used in that circumstance.
The project box template places the profile in Category:New York Project-Managed.
New York Sticker
The New York Sticker is a sticker that can be placed on any New York-related profile. See Template:New York Sticker for details.
New York Projects
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All Town and County Projects should be included in Category:New York Projects. Some examples of current projects are:
- Buffalo, New York Eastside Neighborhood led by Jillaine Smith
- Wawarsing Hamlet led by James Applegate
- Montgomery County, New York, no current leader.
Some other New York projects are:
- Formation of New York Counties with links to namesakes and counties
- New York in the Great War
- Project:9/11
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Other New York Related Projects in WikiTree include:
Related United States Projects:
- US Governors Project
- United States in World War II page
- Project:1776
- Native Americans Project
- Project:US Presidents
- Project:United States
- Project:United States Cemeteries
New York Genealogical Resources
See Space:New York Genealogical Resources and Space:Sources-New_York for comprehensive lists of resources and Category: New York Genealogy Resources for resources that have been uploaded to Wikitree. Some highlights include the following:
- New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
- New York Genealogy on FamilySearch.com
- Cyndi's List
- Dunham-Wilcox - New York index
- New York Genealogy Trails
- Random Acts of Genealogy Kindness
- New York State Health Department, Birth, Death, and Marriage Records
- Genealogy in New York State, (GEN-NYS-L) mailing list
- Wikipedia, New York State
- Williamsburg, Jersey City , Brooklyn, NY 17th Century Collection of Maps
New York Categories in WikiTree
Suggestions
The following link will show the suggestions for edits to New York Profiles. Please feel free to click on the links and help fix these errors.
You can also use the Category: New York, Unsourced Profiles, which contains a table of unsourced profiles by century to select from.
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