• The New York State Library is a depository for several record series compiled by New York State Chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Please ask staff for assistance if you cannot find what you are looking for.
• The research value and use of these records is not limited to DAR members and their families.
• Daughters of the American Revolution. General Peter Gansevoort Chapter. Revised Master Index to the New York State DAR Genealogical Records Volumes. Zephyrhills, FL: Jean Worden, 1998 (R,929,qD23,98-005610). This is a revision of the Master Index, New York State DAR Genealogical Records (R,929,qD23m) and Master Index, Supplement 1972C1978, Records and Corrections (R,929,qD23m,1972b).
• Daughters of the American Revolution, New York. Bible Records. v.1-. 1924-present. 266 volumes. (R,929,qD23). Primarily a collection of family Bible records, the series also includes many genealogies. Indexed in Revised Master Index to the New York State DAR Genealogical Records Volumes, Book 1 (R,929,qD23,98-005610). These records are also listed in the surname card index in the Genealogy/Local History area.
• -----. Cemetery, Church and Town Records. v.1-. 1926-present. 650 volumes. (R,974.7,qD23). Vital data (baptisms, marriages, deaths, etc.) from church, cemetery and local records in New York State. The series includes some census records, obituaries, and naturalization records. Indexed in Revised Master Index to the New York State DAR Genealogical Records Volumes, Book 1 (R,929,qD23,98-005610). These records are also indexed in the vital records card index in the Genealogy/Local History area.
• -----. DAR Patriot Index. (R,929,D238) indexes name, date, wives, state served, and patriotic services.
• -----. Family Histories. v.1-. 1979-. 13 Volumes. Some updated and documented DAR family histories. Records are indexed in the surnames card index in the Genealogy/Local History area.
• -----. Genealogical Data: New Project. Ser. A-. 1960-. 145 Volumes. (R,929,qD23d). Genealogical forms submitted to the Genealogical Records Committee, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution by applicants for membership in the DAR. Often called the "grandfather papers," the forms trace each applicant's lineage from her grandparents to her Revolutionary War ancestor. Birth, marriage and death data are given for each generation. Indexed in the New Project: Genealogical Data card index in the Genealogy/Local History area.
• -----. Graves of Revolutionary Soldiers in New York. 1922-1955. 15 Volumes. (R,973.3447,qA2c). Names and graves of Revolutionary War soldiers buried in New York State. Indexed in Revised Master Index to the New York State DAR Genealogical Records Volumes, Book 2 (R,929,qD23,98-005610). Indexed in the Revolutionary War soldiers card index in the Genealogy/Local History area.
• -----. Lineage Books. 1890-1921. 166 Volumes. (R,929,D23,202-7001). Lineage and patriot service summarized for each member listed, national number noted. Indexed in DAR Index to the Lineage Books (also known as Index to the Rolls of Honor or Ancestor Index).

• Genealogical Periodical Annual Index. Annual. (Located on Microform Area table: MA,016.9291,qG326). Indexes genealogical periodicals from 1962 to the present.
• Index to Genealogical Periodicals. One volume covering up to the year 1931, (R,929,J17i) plus a three-volume set (R,929,J17iab), which indexes genealogical periodicals through 1952.
• Periodical Source Index. Annual. (Located on Microform Area table: MA,016.9292,qP445,88-19931). Provides a comprehensive place, subject and surname index to some 1,600 genealogical and local history periodicals.
• Periodical Source Index (PERSI) on CD-ROM. (Loaded on one of the computers in the Genealogy Area). This index contains all the information in the Periodical Source Index in paper, and will be updated periodically.
• Other Indexes to Surnames
• American Biographical Index. 6 vol. (Located on the Biography Reference Table: RT,920.07,A512,90-34534,1993). Indexes the microfiche collection, American Biographical Archives, which is located in the Microform Area. The American Biographical Archives is a collection of biographical material from a variety of sources. It provides information about 280,000 persons, many of which are of local or limited fame.
• American Genealogical-Biographical Index to American Genealogical, Biographical and Local History Materials. (R,929,A51bi). Indexes a large number of genealogies which do not contain an index to their contents. Abbreviations are explained in the volumes designated with orange dots (volumes 1,10,34,54,70,110,134).
• Biography and Genealogy Master Index. 2nd ed., Annual Supplements. (Located on the Biography Reference Table: RT,920.073,qB615,75-16836,1980). A consolidated index to more than 3,200,000 biographical sketches in over 350 current and retrospective biographical dictionaries. Also available online from InfoTrac.
• New Project Genealogical Data Card File (Located in the Genealogy Area). This indexes genealogical forms submitted for DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) membership application. Be sure to copy the volume and page. The DAR Genealogical Data: New Project volumes are located in the DAR area.
• The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society: Master Index, 113 Years, 1870-1982. (R,929,qN54). 4 vols. Indexes volumes 1-40 of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. The entry format displays: volume/page (e.g. 18/104).

NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Newspapers
The library has the fourth largest collection in the United States of American newspapers printed prior to 1821 and the most complete set of original colonial New York papers, including the city’s first newspaper, the New-York Gazette and John Peter Zenger’s controversial New-York Weekly Journal.

Maps
Dutch, British, Spanish, French and American maps in the collection document colonization of North America. There are also significant manuscript surveys of major tracts in colonial New York and New Jersey.

Manuscripts
There are numerous commercial, family and legal collections documenting trade, land transfers, including from Native Americans, and trials, particularly in New York and New Jersey.

 

Books
A full set of New York City directories, beginning with the first in 1786, is available for ready reference. The collection also contains significant runs of directories for other major cities in the early U.S.

Manuscripts
The papers of many major figures in the American Revolution, including William Alexander, Horatio Gates, Baron von Steuben and William Duer, are held here together with one of the nation’s largest collections of orderly books from the Revolution and the War of 1812. Collections documenting slavery and the treatment of African-Americans, including the records of the New York Manumission Society and the African Free School, are extensive. The papers of statesmen such as Robert R. Livingston and family, Albert Gallatin, John Jay, James Duane and Aaron Burr, document United States politics and westward expansion. Records of John Jacob Astor’s American Fur Company, inventor Robert Fulton and architect John McComb, Jr., are examples of other collections from these eras.

Maps
The library holds almost 300 of the original manuscript surveys made by General George Washington’s cartographers, Robert Erskine and Simeon DeWitt, in anticipation of potential battle sites during the Revolutionary War. Many maps document exploration westward from the existing United States. Many New York City surveys and plans document the attempt to reconcile the growing city with its topography, establishing New York City as we know it.

Newspapers
The Revolution may be traced through New York’s Loyalist and patriot (in exile) press. The burgeoning post-Revolutionary press is well represented as well by a nearly complete run of New York City’s commercial and political dailies and significant holdings of the newspapers of other cities and towns.

Other Special Collections
Numerous broadsides document Revolutionary events, with a New York view, such as the New York Tea Party; Paul Revere bringing news to the city; the unique Hugh Gaine printing of the Declaration of Independence. There is significant documentation of the political, commercial and cultural life of the rapidly growing city and nation.

Civil War and Expansion

• NY church and cemetery records
• genealogical charts,
• maps
• personal diaries
• vital records
• family bibles
• compiled notes of famous genealogists and historians such as, Kenn and Harriet Stryker-Rodda, Josephine Frost, Innes Getty, Alfred Vail, and Asa Fitch,

• Federal and state census records
• New York City Directories as early as 1786
• land records
• Probate records
• Church and cemetery records
• New York City vital records
• Court and civil records of New Amsterdam and early New York City

• LDS Family search
• census indexes
• wills
• periodicals indexes
• marriage indexes
• military records (musterrolls)
• land and property deeds
• passenger and immigration record indesxes
• gazeteers

• Federal population censuses for all States, 1790-1930;
• indexes for the 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920 censuses (indexes are not available for all census years and all states);
• selected military service records and indexes;
• selected pension and bounty-land warrant applications;
• indexes to selected passengers arrival records for Eastern and Gulf Coast ports;
• indexes to selected naturalization records processed through Federal courts in New Jersey and New York;
• World War II concentration camp records.

• African American

• Census Records

• Immigration Records

• Military records

• Native American records

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• New York County, 1855 and 1905 (includes Bronx), 1915, 1925
• Bronx County, 1915, 1925
• Kings County, 1855, 1865, 1875, 1892, 1905, 1915, 1925
• Queens County, 1915, 1925; Richmond County, 1865/75, 1915, 1925
• Nassau County, 1915, 1925
• Suffolk County, 1915, 1925
• Westchester County, 1905, 1915, 1925

• New York City (Manhattan and Bronx only), 1890

• New Jersey State Census, 1855, 1865/75, 1885, 1895, 1905

• Index (Soundex) to Naturalization Petitions, 1792-1906 (New York, Kings, Queens, and Richmond Counties)
• Alphabetical Index to Petitions for Naturalization of the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 1865-1957 (Brooklyn)
• Naturalization Certificates, 1794-1906 (Queens)
• Index to Naturalizations, 1906-1941 (Queens)
• Record of Declarations of Intention, 1906-1926 (Queens)

• Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files
• Index to War of 1812 Pension Application Files
• Index to Mexican War Pension Application Files
• Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the War of 1812
• Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the Indian Wars
• Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the Mexican War
• Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the Spanish-American War
• Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the Philippine Insurrection
• Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont
• General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 [Civil War]

• Tithe Applotment Books, 1823-1832
• Griffith's Valuation, 1848-1864
• Family Tree Maker Index to Griffith's Valuation of Ireland on CD-ROM
• All-Ireland Heritage Microfiche Indexes to Griffith's Valuation of Ireland
• Emigrant Savings Bank Records

• Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records to 1850
• Massachusetts Vital Records Microfiche Series

• The New York Times Obituaries Index: 1858-1978.  New York, New York Times, 1970-80.
• Personal Name Index to "The New York Times Index," 1851-1989. 34 v.
• Historical Newspapers Online (includes New York Times, 1851-1923.  Internet subscription.)
• Proquest Direct (Internet subscription.)
• Barber, Gertrude A.
  Deaths Taken from the Brooklyn Eagle, 1841-1880
  Marriages taken from the Brooklyn Eagle, 1841-1880
  New York Evening Post: Deaths, 1801-1890
  New York Evening Post: Marriages, 1801-1890
• Index to Births, 1888-1982
• Index to Deaths, 1888-1982
• Index to Marriages (Grooms), 1888-1937
• Index to Marriages (Brides), 1866-1937

• Passenger Lists and Indexes
• The Library acquires published passenger lists and indexes, among these are:
• Filby, P. William. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index. Detroit, Gale, 1981. (3 vols.) and Supplements, 1982- (in progress)
• The Famine Immigrants: Lists of Irish Immigrants Arriving at the Port of New York, 1846-1851. Baltimore, Genealogical Pub., 1983- 7 vols.
• Germans to America: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports, 1850- (in progress) Wilmington, Scholarly Resources, c1988-
• Italians to America : Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports, 1880-1899.  Wilmington, Scholarly Resources, 1992-
• Migration from the Russian Empire : Lists of Passengers Arriving at the Port of New York, 1875-1891.  Baltimore, Genealogical Pub. Co., c1995-

• Additionally, we have copies of these National Archives microfilms in the Milstein Division Microform Room (Room 119):
• Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, NY 1820-1846
• Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, NY 1897-June 30, 1902.
• Index (Soundex) to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, NY July 1902-1943.
• Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, NY 1820-1910.
• Registers of Vessels Arriving at the Port of New York from Foreign Ports, 1789-1919.
• Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Baltimore, Sept. 20, 1820-March 30, 1837.
• Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Boston, Mass., 1902-June 30, 1906.
• Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Boston, Mass., July 1, 1906-1920.
• Copies of Lists of Passengers Arriving at Miscellaneous Ports on the Atlantic and Gulf Ports and at Ports on the Great Lakes, 1820-1873.
• St. Albans District Manifest Records of Aliens Arriving from Foreign Contiguous Territory: Arrivals at Canadian Border Ports, Jan. 1895-June 30, 1924.
• Registers and Indexes for Passport Applications, 1810-1906.
• Index to Passport Applications, 1850-1852, 1860-1880, 1881, 1906-1923.

• New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, 1790-1880
• New York, New Jersey, Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880
• New York 1900
• New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Puerto Rico, 1910
• New York, Puerto Rico, 1920