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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:
  • NY State Census 1855. Includes Kings County.
  • NY State Census 1865.
  • NY State Census 1875.
  • NYC Police Census 1890.
  • NY State Census 1892.
  • NY State Census 1905.
  • NY State Census 1915.
  • NY State Census 1925.
• NYC Municipal Archives Collections. Includes Old Town Kings County records of towns that were later incorporated into Brooklyn. Also Historical Vital Records Project. Also collections of Tax Photos of buildings in 1940s and 1950s.
• New York Historical Society Digital collections.
• New York Naturalization Records.
• Center for Brooklyn History. Collaboration between the Brooklyn Public Library and the Brooklyn Historical Society. Includes city directories and Brooklyn Newsstand with 40 newspapers..
• Brooklyn Genealogy Information Page.
• Long Island Genealogy. Includes some indexing of the Queen's County Sentinel.
• Queens Public Library Local History.
• Brooklyn Enrolled Voters, pub. 1919.
• Accessing 1940 NYC Phonebooks in One Step, phone books for 1940; find census ED number.
• NYC Records and 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.
• Brooklyn, New York, three papers.
• 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.

Web Directories:
• Linkpendium Kings County.
• Cyndi's List Kings County (Brooklyn).
• New York Records Online.
• Online New York City Death Records & Indexes, a guide.
• Online New York Naturalization Records and Indexes, a guide.
• Finding New York Passenger Arrivals.
• FamilySearch wiki, Brooklyn Borough, NY.
• A Guide to New York Historical Resources.
• New York Online Historical Newspapers Summary.

Research Guides:
• New York and New York City.
• Researching house histories in NYC.
• From the State Archives, a Research Topics.
• Direct Me NYC 1786: A History of City Directories in the United States and New York City.

Message Boards:
• Ancestry Kings County.
Ancestry membership not needed.

Miscellaneous:
• Blog, Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, NYPL.
• Catholic New York.
• Catholic Churches and Institutions.
• Brooklyn parishes, by year established.
• JewishGen U. S. info files.
• Video, History of New York City, Walk on the Lower East Side, ca. 1900.

Maps and Places:
• A map of the Age of Buildings in NYC.
• Related for Brooklyn, Block by Block.
• NYC Building Photos, 1939-1941, 1980s.
• Mapping Historical New York, A Digital Atlas.

This page last updated 5 August 2022.

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