New York Genealogical Resources

Profile managers: Ellen Smith [send private message] and United States Project WikiTree [send private message]

List of New York Genealogical Resources

The following are some external links to genealogical resources that New York researchers have found useful and are mostly free, except when noted. For additional resources available within WikiTree, see the Category:New York Genealogy Resources.

• Wikipedia: New York (state)
• New York State website
• State Archives Genealogy Resources
• Fulton Postcards. Search Over 23,580,000 Old New York State Historical Newspaper Pages. To read how one man does this go to the home page and watch the opening video.
• Long Island Genealogy and searchable database of surnames
• New York Public Library Digital Collections - City Directories from 1849
• New York State Historic Newspapers Project
• New York Online Genealogy Records in FamilySearch.com
• New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
• New York Genealogy Web
• New York by American Ancestors, New England Historic Genealogical Society
• New York Genealogy.org
• New York, Jewish Genealogical Society
• Jewish Genealogical Society of New York
• Western New York Genealogical Society
• Central New York Genealogical Society
• Brooklyn Historical Society
• Book, Genealogical Resources in New York, Hardcover – 2003, by Estelle M. Guzik
• Ellis Island Foundation
• New York Genealogy Guide, Ancestry.com, free to download
• Maps of New York
• Three Rivers Website (Three Rivers . . . Hudson, Mohawk, Schoharie)
• New York In The Revolution as Colony and State, Vol 1 & Vol II by James A. Roberts, Comptroller, Compiled by Frederic G. Matherm Second Edition 1898, Two Volumes. Excellent Revolutionary War archive has unit rosters and unit records.
• Herkimer County and other counties
• New York State Library, Formation of New York Counties
• New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
• New York Genealogy on FamilySearch.com
• Cyndi's List for New York
• New York Genealogy Trails
• Random Acts of Genealogy Kindness, New York
• New York State Health Department: Birth, Death, Marriage & Divorce Records. Website provides information on how to obtain vital records.
• Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New York, Vol. XV edited by Berthold Fernow, published 1887. Excellent Revolutionary War archive; has an alphabetical list of all known New York veterans (at the time of publishing).
• Study Center for Early Religious Life in Western New York A listing of sources documenting religious life in the first half of the nineteenth century in central and western New York State, available in the Rare Manuscript Collection at Cornell University