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Brooklyn became a city in 1834, having absorbed other villages including Flatbush. 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:
- NYC Historical Vital Records Project from the NYC Municipal Archives.
- Microfilm of the New York City geographic birth index, 1880-1917. Finding aid for the index.
- 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. $.
- New York City vital records (1866-1909/1949) in My Heritage. $.
- Census:
- NYC Municipal Archives Collections. Along with the Vital Records Project (above), 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.
- New York Historical Society Digital collections.
- Naturalization Pathfinder, by the NY State Archives.
- Center for Brooklyn History. Formerly known as the Brooklyn Historical Society. Includes city directories and Brooklyn Newsstand with 40 newspapers..
- Brooklyn Genealogy Information Page, by Steve Morse.
- 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: Brooklyn Eagle, Times Union, Brooklyn Daily Times .
- 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.
Message Boards:
- Ancestry Kings County. Ancestry membership not needed.
This page last updated 17 Oct 2024.
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