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Cemetery walking tour scheduled for Cold Spring Harbor

The Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum (Suffolk County) will be hosting a walking tour of St. John’s Memorial Cemetery on Sunday, March 30 at 1 and 3 p.m. Come get acquainted with some of the permanent residents at St. John’s Cemetery. The focus of the

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Dunkirk Public Library to offer free genealogy classes

Dunkirk Public Library (Chautauqua County) will be offering three genealogy classes as part of its Tech-Talk Monday classes. All classes take place in person in the computing center. Thursday, Feb. 13 – Ancestry Library Edition – 1 to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25 – Exploring

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Historical documents added to Digital Long Island collection

The not-for-profit organization Preservation Long Island has been participating in a project called Digital Long Island, organized by the East Hampton Library. More than 500 items from Preservation Long Island‘s manuscript collection have now been digitized and are available online. This collection includes 17th-, 18th-,

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1890 NYC Police Census to be subject of free webinar

The New York City Municipal Archives will present a free webinar, “Digitizing the 1890 Police Census” on Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 1 p.m. In 1890, questioning the accuracy of the city’s population count reported by the federal government, New York City officials launched an independent

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Ulster County Archives digitizes genealogy magazine

The Ulster County Archives has recently added a collection of digitized journals to the New York Heritage website. Olde Ulster: An Historical and Genealogical Magazine was published from 1905 – 1915  and was published to be a history magazine to fill the void in  local

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