Posts by Willa Armstrong

Emigrant City: A Collaborative Resource

by Willa Armstrong
March 7, 2016

Find your great-great-uncle or the former owner of your apartment building: We’ve built an interface for you to browse records after searching names, addresses, and other fields.

Emigrant City: An Introduction

by Willa Armstrong
November 4, 2015

NYPL Labs and the Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy are excited to announce the launch of Emigrant City, the Library's newest, online participatory project.

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