The Family & Local Histories Project images old books and manuscripts, and digitizes the text using OCR technology.

These books and manuscripts become fully searchable by name or keyword

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Browse all titles in the Family & Local Histories Archive by selecting a county:

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New York Statewide Books

Other Books that Include New York Genealogy

• A collection of upwards of thirty thousand names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727

• Names of persons for whom marriage licenses were issued by the secretary of the province of New York, previous to 1784

• Supplementary list of marriage licenses

• Calendar of New York colonial commissions, 1680-1770

• Journal of the Legislative Council of the colony of New-York : began the 9th day of April, 1691, and ended the 27th of September, 1743

• The records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 anno Domini