Articles & Databases
56 resources found.
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American Ancestors
Databases of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Highlights include full-text access to the New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1847-1994), and New England state vital records and index resources, including New York. To access these resources, select Search→Databases or Browse→Databases from the main menu. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Catholic Parish Registers - National Library of Ireland
This site provides access to over 3,500 registers from 1,086 Catholic parishes in Ireland and Northern Ireland which have been digitized and made freely available by the National Library of Ireland (NLI). The registers include baptisms and marriages, and date between 1740-1880. Approximately 373,000 digital images have been scanned from the NLI collection of 550 microfilm reels.
Find My Past
Find My Past includes genealogicial records from the United States, along with England, Ireland, New Zealand, and other smaller record sets from around the globe. Researchers can also access the PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) via this database. PERSI provides access to millions of entries from historical and genealogical publications. Keep in mind that the 1939 registers and the newspaper packages on FMP are not included in library subscriptions. For access to newspapers, please browse NYPL's collection of historical titles. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Ancestry Library Edition
Access billions of names in thousands of genealogical databases including Census and Vital Records, birth, marriage and death notices, the Social Security Death Index, Passenger lists and naturalizations, Military and Holocaust Records, City Directories, New York Emigrant Savings Bank records, and African American and Native American Records. Library version of Ancestry.com. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Access to this resource has been temporarily expanded to NYPL cardholders working from home, courtesy of ProQuest and its partner Ancestry.
FamilySearch
Operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), this free website offers a variety of genealogical databases, access to unindexed images of genealogical records, the Social Security Death Index, wiki entries describing various types of genealogical research, and access to the Family History Library's catalog. Free access to the 1940 United States Federal Census.
Fold3
Historical primary documents featuring U.S. city directories, naturalization records, and Revolutionary War Pensions. Collections include: History and Genealogy Archives, African American Archives, Native American Archives, Revolutionary War Archives, US Bureau of Investigation Case File Archives, and World War II Archives. Formerly known as Footnote.com. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Genealogy Indexer
Search historical business, address and telephone directories from Central and Eastern Europe, memorials to Jewish communities destroyed during the Holocaust, Polish and Russian military documents, including lists of officers and casualities. Also includes community and personal histories, and Polish secondary school annual reports and other school sources. More genealogical resources are being added daily.
HeritageQuest
This genealogical database allows researchers to search U.S. Federal Census records, digitized family and local history books, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files and the Freedman's Bank Records (1865-1874), maps, and a wealth of other historical collections and research guides. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
New York Times (1851-2016) w/ Index
Searchable full-text and page images from The New York Times archive with the option to search by subject headings (index covers 1851-1993). **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Access to this resource has been temporarily expanded to NYPL cardholders working from home, courtesy of ProQuest.
America's Historical Newspapers
Searchable full-text and page images of newspapers from across the country including early newspapers, 1690-1922; America's Urban Centers Newspaper Collection, 1807-1880; African American Newspapers, 1827-1998; Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971; Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876; and Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980; Early American Newspapers, Series 15, 1822-1879: Immigrant Communities. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Access to this resource has been temporarily expanded to NYPL cardholders working from home, courtesy of Readex/Newsbank.
American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection
The American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection provides digital access to American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912. The fifty thematic subsets include digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals not available from any other source and provide content detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th century. These specialized collections cover advertising, health, women's issues, science, the history of slavery, industry and professions, religious issues, culture and the arts, and more. See below for collections:
The American Israelite
The longest-running English-language Jewish newspaper still published in the United States. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Indexes biographical listings in print dictionaries and encyclopedias covering millions individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world. A good resource for researching those who are less well-known or famous. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Bremen Passenger Lists, 1920-1939
Searchable database of passengers leaving Bremen for the years 1920 to 1939. Also includes some passenger lists and a card index for 1907/08 and 1913/14.
Brooklyn Newsstand
Developed by the Brooklyn Public Library, this free database provides access to the full-text of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from 1841 to 1955.
Castle Garden Immigration Center
The castlegarden.org site no longer exists. This resource has been removed.
All of the information that was on their site is accessible from the following resources:
Ancestry Library Edition and FamilySearch
Center for Disease Control: Where to Write for Vital Records
Directory of addresses to obtain vital records (birth, marriage, divorce, and death certificates) from each state and U.S. territory. Also includes foreign birth and death certificates for U.S. citizens.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Search and view a large selection of digitized American historical newspaper titles from 1860-1922, or locate microfilmed copies of newspapers using the comprehensive "U.S. Newspapers Directory, 1690-the present."
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
Contains information about servicemen who served in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War. Also includes regimental histories and ongoing updated lists of prisoner-of-war records and cemetery records.
Columbia Gazetteer of the World
A unique world enclopedia of geographical places and features with over 170,000 entries. It can be searched by place name or full-text.**Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
DAR Ancestor Search
Database of Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) ancestors. Includes an index of unpublished genealogical materials collected by DAR members, such as bible and cemetery transcriptions.
Death Indexes and Records Online
This website is an extensive directory of links to online death indexes, listed by state and county. Included are death records, death certificate indexes, death notices and registers, obituaries, probate indexes, and cemetery and burial records.
Digitized Brooklyn City Directories
Brooklyn Public Library has digitized Brooklyn city and business directories, and telephone books for the period 1856-1967. This collection is accessible via Internet Archive and allows for full-text searching within each volume.
Directory of Professional Genealogists
Directory of Genealogy Professionals who are members of the Association of Professional Genealogists. Search options include location and specialization. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Ellis Island: American Family Immigration History Center
Database of immigrants who arrived at the Port of New York through Ellis Island, 1892-1957. Digitized passenger lists and ship images are accessible through a free account.
England and Wales Historical Directories
A digital library of local and trade directories from England and Wales from 1750-1919.
Family History Books
Collection of digitized genealogy and family history publications from the archives of Allen County Library, Brigham Young University, Family History Library, and other major genealogy centers. Offered through FamilySearch.org.
Find a Genealogist - Board for Certification of Genealogists
Directory of Genealogy Professionals who are certified by the Board for Certification of Genealogists. Search options include location, specialization, and language expertise.
Find a Grave
Find a Grave contains listings, images and some additional burial and biographical information from cemeteries in the United States and other countries. An index to cemeteries and burial information from this website are also available through the Ancestry database.
Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1874
Freedman's Bank Records are a great source for genealogists researching their African American heritage. This database is an index to registers of signatures of depositors and includes images of original records. These documents contain invaluable information about individuals prior to the 1870 U.S. Federal Census. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Fulton Search: Historical newspapers
A searchable repository of historic newspapers published in New York State and the United States between 1795 and 2007, frequently updated. Also includes a handful of international newspapers. FultonSearch offers an alternative interface to FultonHistory.com, pointing to files hosted and indexed there. To browse a list of the newspapers included in this resource, click here.
***This resource occasionally experiences technical issues that temporarily shut down service to the site. During these periods, try the Library of Congress' free resource Chronicling America, another free resource that provides historical newspapers, or one of the other historical newspapers databases at the New York Public Library.
Gateway to North America: People, Places, and Organizations of 19th-Century New York
A collection of historical directories, member lists, and other name-rich sources, focusing on New York City during the long 19th century. Documents are fully text-searchable and originate from the print collection of the New-York Historical Society. Other categories of documents include maps, illustrated advertisements, burial lists, and gazetteers. The list of titles available in this database is available here. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
German Genealogy Group
Provided by the German Genealogy Group, this site provides free databases for indexes to vital records: New York City Births (1878-1909), Marriages (1866-1937), and Deaths (1862-1948). Dates of coverage vary by borough/county. Other databases available through the site are Alien Statements for New York & New Jersey, Naturalizations for select New York & New Jersey counties, a variety of cemetery and church records, New York & New Jersey area yearbooks, German "Enemy Aliens," and other genealogical data.
Google Book Search
Search the full-text of scanned books (contributed by The New York Public Library, as well as other libraries and publishers) and read selections of digitized texts. Full-text and downloads available for items with no copyright restrictions.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn
Founded in 1838, this cemetery was the place many famous New Yorkers who died during the second half of the 19th century were buried. Look for the search form under "Burial Inquiry."
Griffith's Valuation
The Primary Valuation (also known as Griffith’s Valuation) was published between 1847 and 1864 and was the first full-scale valuation of property in Ireland. There is a printed valuation book for each barony or poor law union in the country showing the names of occupiers of land and buildings, the names of persons from whom these were leased and the amount and value of the property held.
Internet Archives: Text Archives
Text Archive enables you to search and view the full-text of scanned books via the Web.
Italian Genealogy Group
Provided by the Italian Genealogy Group, this site provides free databases vital record indexes for: New York City Births (1878-1909), Marriages (1866-1937), and Deaths (1862-1948). Dates of coverage vary by borough/county. Other databases available through the site are Alien Statements for New York & New Jersey, Naturalizations for select New York & New Jersey counties, Fresh Pond Cremation and Interment index (Suffolk County, NY), and other genealogical data.
JewishGen
Resources and tools to help those with Jewish ancestry research and find family members. This website links to numerous databases that are national and international in scope, that record many aspects of the historic Jewish diaspora.
Marquis Who's Who on the Web
A current and retrospective biographical database of notable individuals worldwide across multiple fields and disciplines. Includes all biographical data resources published by Marquis, with content updated daily. For a related database, see World Who's Who. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**