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.
• Brooklyn Public Library Digital Collections including city directories.
• Brooklyn Daily Eagle 1841-1955. Free access.
• Online New York Naturalization Records and Indexes.
• Brooklyn Genealogy Information Page.
• Long Island Genealogy. Includes some indexing of the Queen's County Sentinel.
• Brooklyn Enrolled Voters, pub. 1919.
• Direct Me NYC, phone books for 1940; find census ED number
• NYC Records including a huge photo collection.
• Brooklyn Visual Heritage photo collection.
• Hart Island, a "potter's field".
• New York State Historical Association -- their library page.
• New York State Archives.
• In Ancestry, "New York, Abstracts of World War I Military Service, 1917-1919."
• A search tool for Catholic Cemeteries, Diocese of Brooklyn.
• 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.
• A professional genealogist's blog with some databases, Brooklyn Genealogy.
• Green-Wood Cemetery with a search function.
• 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.

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

Research Guides:
• New York City. First of 3 parts; follow links.
• Researching house histories in NYC.
• From the State Archives, a guide to birth, marriage and death records.
• From the State Archives, a guide to WW I records.
• Direct Me NYC 1786: A History of City Directories in the United States and New York City.

Message Boards:
• Genforum Kings County.
• Ancestry Kings County.

Miscellaneous:
• New York Genealogy News.
• Blog, Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, NYPL.
• Catholic New York.
• Catholic Churches and Institutions.
• Brooklyn parishes, by year established.
• Resources at the Brooklyn Historical Society plus a blog.
• JewishGen U. S. info files.
• New York City Dept. of Records.

Maps and Places:
• A map of the Age of Buildings in NYC.
• Related for Brooklyn, Block by Block, but $.
• Brooklyn Revealed. Street by street.
• NYC Building Photos, 1939-1941, 1980s.

This page last updated 16 September 2015.

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