Bookmarks : Genealogy: NYC & Brooklyn
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Brooklyn became a city in 1834, having absorbed other villages including Flatush. In 1855 it was the third largest city in the country. In 1898 it became a borough of New York City. Each borough is a separate county; Brooklyn is Kings County. The island of Long Island includes four counties, Kings (Brooklyn), Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk.
Resource and Database Sites:
- Italian Genealogical Group. Not just for Italians and a lot on NYC.
- German Genealogy Group. Ditto.
- NYC Births, 1846-1909 on FamilySearch.
- New York, NY Death Certificates, 1862-1948 on Ancestry.com. $.
- Census:
- NYC Municipal Archives Collections. Includes Old Town Kings County records of towns that were later incorporated into Brooklyn. Also collections of Tax Photos of buildings in 1940s and 1950s.
- Center for Brooklyn History. Collaboration between the Brooklyn Public Library and the Brooklyn Historical Society. Includes city directories and Brooklyn Newsstand with 40 newspapers..
- Online New York City Death Records & Indexes, a guide.
- Online New York Naturalization Records and Indexes, a guide.
- Brooklyn Genealogy Information Page.
- Long Island Genealogy. Includes some indexing of the Queen's County Sentinel.
- Brooklyn Enrolled Voters, pub. 1919.
- Accessing 1940 NYC Phonebooks in One Step, phone books for 1940; find census ED number.
- NYC Records abd Information Services including a huge photo collection.
- Brooklyn Visual Heritage, photo collection.
- Hart Island Burial Records, a "potter's field".
- Green-Wood Cemetery Brooklyn with a search function and Cemetery Archives.
- Diocese of Brooklyn Archives.
- Locate a Loved One, search Catholic cemeteries, Diocese of Brooklyn.
- New York State Archives.
- In Ancestry, "New York, Abstracts of World War I Military Service, 1917-1919." $
- NYC directories. Begins 1786.
- Club Women of New York, directories, 1904 - 1921-22. Societies, members, also registry of clubs belonging to the General Federation of Women's Clubs of the United States.
- Suffolk County [Long Island] historic newspapers.
- New York & New Jersey 1888 Telephone Directory. Brooklyn at the beginning.
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle 1905 Almanac.
- 1881 Brooklyn Street Directory.
- Street Name Changes in Queens.
- Archive.org. Search for List of Registered Voters in New York City 1924. Many pages in the results, but you can search within each section.
- A professional genealogist's blog with some databases, Brooklyn Genealogy.
- Historical Index to the Manuals of the Corporation of the City of New York. Indexes Valentine's Manuals, 1841-1870.
- New York Index, miscellaneous county files, mostly very early.
- New York State Historic Newspapers.
- New York City official publication, The City Record.
- Moving Beyond Rags to Riches, some Irish Famine emigrants in NYC.
- Minutes of the Common Council of the City of New York, 1784-1831, 19 vols., indexed.
This page last updated 10 June 2021.
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