There will be a Harlem Genealogy Fair on Saturday, June 21 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 360 Lenox Avenue in Manhattan. This event is co-sponsored by The Afro American Genealogy and Historical Society Jean Sampson Scott-Greater New York Chapter and The Church of
The Newtown Historical Society in Queens, in collaboration with Council Member Robert Holden, is currently presenting a new exhibit, “Historic Maps of Newtown.” The exhibit is located at Council Member Holden’s office, 58-38 69 Street, during regular business hours and will remain until the end
The genealogy podcast, Ancestral Findings, has just added a recording – “The Value of New York State Census Records for Genealogy.” New York conducted state censuses in the following years: 1825, 1835, 1845, 1855, 1865, 1875, 1892, 1905, 1915, and 1925. These were authorized under
The Genealogy Club of Newtown (CT) will present “Free Resources for New York Genealogical Research” on Wednesday, June 11, at 7 pm via Zoom. Upstate, downstate, all around the Empire state, learn how to discover, or rediscover, free resources for investigating ancestors’ lives and family
The genealogy organization Reclaim the Records recently won a court case in the New York Court of Appeals that will release the index to more than 10 million New York death records for the years 1880-2017. The court has also remanded the parties back to
