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NY Society Library has online marriage and index index

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The New York Society Library has a digitized collection of marriage and death indexes available for free on its website.

The Notices of Marriage and Deaths of Leading New York Families from 1836-1868 were clipped from newspapers by Elizabeth Denning Duer and compiled in three volumes.

The books came to the Library in 1903 as a gift from Duer’s daughter and are currently in the rare book collection. The full contents of these volumes are transcribed on the website along with page images from the actual books, making this a valuable glimpse into old New York and a unique resource for researchers and genealogists. The books can be viewed online or downloaded as a PDF file.

To start searching the index, go to: https://www.nysoclib.org/collection/nyc-marriage-death-notices

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Patchogue library to sponsor genealogy research trip to NYC

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The Patchogue-Medford Public Library will be sponsoring a Genealogy Research Bus Trip to New York City on Thursday, September 7.

The bus will leave the library at 7:30 a.m. and have two drop offs: the Municipal Archives in lower Manhattan or the Kings County Clerk Office/Surrogates Court. You must decide which archive before you sign up. The number of attendees is very limited due to the size of the archives. Lunch will be on your own. Pick up will be approximately 3 p.m. Return will be approximately 5:30 p.m.

Cost of the trip is $30 payable by cash or check made out to PML. In person registration will begin Tuesday, August. 1.

For more information, contact Kathy Then at kthen@pmlib.org or 631-654-4700.

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Ancestry.com added name index for New York City Death Index

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Ancestry.com has recently added a name index for the New York City Death Index for the years 1949-1965.
The index includes separate listings for stillbirths.

The information from the index comes from the New York City Health Department. Some images are faint and may not be included in the index. Images can be browsed by year if a name search is not successful.

Information in the index includes: name, age at death, date of death, death certificate number, medical examiner case number and borough in which they died. Boroughs are listed by letter: M=Manhattan, K=Kings (Brooklyn), Q=Queens, R=Richmond (Staten Island), X=Bronx and Y=Outside of the City.

Codes can also be found next to age at death: M=minutes, H=Hours, D=Days and L=Months.

Ancestry.com Library Edition can be found in many public libraries. To find the New York City Death index, just go to the Search tab and select the Card Catalog. Use the keywords “New York City Death Index 1849-1965”.

A free New York City Death Index is available for the mid-1800s up to 1948 on both the Italian Genealogy Group and German Genealogy Group websites.

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New additions added to online city directory collection

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New York Public Library Digital Collection has recently added more items to its city directories collection.

New additions are for the years: 1786, 1790, 1791, 1796, 1797, 1875, 1884-1886, 1901-1913, 1916-1918 and 1920-1922. Overall the collection covers 137 years from 1786 through 1923.

City directories can help pinpoint ancestors during non-census years as well as help distinguish between families with similar names.

To search the collection, go to: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/ and use the term “city directory” in the search box.

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Free webinars to discuss Danish research, New York state records

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Several webinars will be offered this week covering coroner’s records, Danish research and New York records.

The Illinois State Genealogical Society will present “Cause of Death: Using Coroner’s Records for Genealogy” on Tuesday, May 9 at 9 p.m. Coroners got involved in all types of unexplained deaths from drug overdoses to drownings, mishaps to murders, making their records and excellent resource to research for details about an ancestor’s untimely death. This webinar will cover where to find coroner’s records and how to mine them for genealogy research clues.

You must register for this free webinar. To register, go to: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1471706587473686019

Legacy Family Tree Webinars will present “Beginning Danish Research” on Wednesday, May 10, at 8 p.m. This webinar will discuss various aspects of beginning Danish research such as naming practices, jurisdictions, and accessing church records through online sources.

You must register for this free webinar. To register, go to: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3862018478418257667

Legacy Family Tree Webinars will present “New York City and State Governmental Vital Records” on Friday, May 12 at 2 p.m. New York is a challenging state to find birth, death and marriage records. Navigating New York City and State governmental vital records requires a “quick sheet” to make sure you have looked in every possible place to find the indexes and the records. Civil registration jurisdictions need to be clearly understood and considered, plus the key dates for laws and regulations that give context to what was actually collected, and when. In this webinar you will learn what is accessible today and how to order records.

You must register for this free webinar.To register, go to: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3276870484652886019

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New York City church records index available online

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The Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society website contains the pastoral records of Rev. Frederick W. Geissenhainer, Jr. from his tenure as pastor at St. Matthew’s and St. Paul’s Lutheran churches in New York City from 1827-1879.

The database of the records was created from five volumes that are kept now at the New York Historical Society.

The database contains 1,180 confirmation records, 5,663 marriage records and 11,608 baptism records. There are almost 52,000 unique names in the index. The database is searchable by name. Images of the records are available by request from the New York Historical Society library.

To search the database, go to the society website at: http://magsgen.com/cstm_magsDB.php

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More NYC marriage index images are uploaded online

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The not-for-profit group Reclaim the Records has recently uploaded more images to its index of marriages for New York City.

The images added are for the following years:
Manhattan: 1946-1950
Bronx: 1947-1949
Kings: 1946-1950

To view the images, go to: www.archive.org and search on “NYC marriage index” or “NYC Marriage Index” and your borough of interest – such as “NYC Marriage Index” and Queens.

The group is working on uploading more images in near future.

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Municipal Archives adds more marriage licenses to collection

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The New York City Municipal Archives, at 31 Chambers Street, recently received the 1930-1949 marriage licenses from the New York City Clerk’s Marriage Bureau.

These licenses are available to the public in the reference room. Previously, these documents had to be requested from the Marriage Bureau on Worth Street in Manhattan.

Copies of the marriage licenses can be ordered in person or by mail right now but online ordering will not be available until January 2017.

For more information about these documents or other genealogy holdings, go to the Municipal Archives website at: www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/archives/genealogy.shtml

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Online New York City directories available through NYPL

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New York Public Library is digitizing its New York City directories and will make them available free through the NYPL Digital Collections portal.

Currently the years available in the digital collections range from 1849/50 through 1881/82. City directories through 1923 have already been scanned and will be going online in the coming months. Ultimately the directories will be text searchable.

City directories include not only residential listings but also listings of businesses, religious organizations, courts, police stations, and orphanages.

To browse through the current collection of directories, go to: http://digitalcollections.nypl.org and in the search box use “New York City Directories.”

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New York City marriage indexes free online

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The not-for-profit group Reclaim the Records has recently posted New York City marriage indexes online.

Earlier in the year, the group posted the microfilm images of the New York City City Clerk’s marriage index. There is no name index for the images. The records are organized alphabetically by bride and groom last name. The information on the images gives the marriage date and certificate number.

The years included are: Manhattan – 1908-1929; Brooklyn – 1908-1929; Queens – 1908-1930; Staten Island – 1908-1938; and Bronx – 1914 – 1929. To access these images, go to: www.archive.org and use the search term “NYC Marriage Index.” You can sort by date published to sort by year.

The group also recently uploaded an index to the New York City marriage index for the years 1950-1995. The index can be searched by bride or groom and the results will show the year the couple was married, the borough and the license number.

To use this index, go to: www.nycmarriageindex.com

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