The following links were added to the website in July: July 29, 2025 City Directories: Added Albany – Social Directory – 1896; Chautaugua County – Westfield – 1915; Chautaugua County – Dunkirk; Herkimer County – Little Falls – 1887/88; Richmond County – Telelphone Directory –
The following links were added to the website in June. June 23, 2025 Census Records: Cayuga County – Sterling – 1845 State Census; Rockland County – 1892 Census; St. Lawrence County – 1892 Census – Canton – Town of DeKalb; St. Lawrence County – 1892
Three New York based websites are mentioned in the Family Tree Magazine 2025 101 Best Websites for Genealogy and 75 Best State Genealogy Websites. The only website mentioned in the Best State websites is New York Heritage. On this website you can find photographs, letters,
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 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
