Compare Constellations

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society localities files, 1653-1986.

Title: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society localities files, 1653-1986.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear feet (6 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/665842368 View

Microfiche collection, [ca. 1630]-1986.

Title: Microfiche collection, [ca. 1630]-1986.

Microfiche copies of genealogical columns, 1896-1941, from the BOSTON TRANSCRIPT; Massachusetts vital records, ca. 1630-1850; genealogies of, primarily, New York State families; and the International Genealogical Index for North America. The NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, 1870-1986, is also included.

ArchivalResource: 1.7 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83729942 View

New York State cemetery inscriptions, [ca. 1900-1960]

Title: New York State cemetery inscriptions, [ca. 1900-1960]

Bound volumes containing typescript copies of approximately 18th - 20th century tombstone inscriptions from New York State cemeteries with a few from cemeteries in New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. Copies are the work of numerous genealogists working from approximately the turn of the century until the 1950s or 1960s.

ArchivalResource: 9 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155497187 View

Van Norden family papers, 1867-1923

Title: Van Norden family papers 1867-1923

The progenitor of the Van Norden family in America was Pieter Casparszen Van Naerden who first appeared in the historical record in 1621 with other Huguenots and Walloons petitioning the British ambassador at the Hague for permission to emigrate to Virginia. Collection contains genealogical notes, history and sketches, mostly typescript, on members of the Van Norden and related families by Warner Van Norden, copies of wills, and a few marriage and death certificates, and personal papers of Warner's son Theodore L. Van Norden, mostly concerning a family financial scandal. The papers of Theodore Van Norden consist of manuscripts, correspondence, legal and financial papers and clippings pertaining to lawsuits against his brother and his wife as well as drawings, paper dolls, poems, stories by children, and a letter and telegram from Theodore Roosevelt.

ArchivalResource: 1 lin. ft. (2 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/18255 View

Census and miscellaneous records from various states, [ca. 1610-1967]

Title: Census and miscellaneous records from various states, [ca. 1610-1967]

Microfilm copies of records, primarily Federal and state censuses, ca. 1610-1967, providing genealogical information for residents of Alabama, California, Colorado, Dakota (Territory), Delaware, Washington, D.C., Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and particularly Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. Also, an 1851 Ontario census. Miscellaneous town, church, land, and legal records are also included, along with genealogical columns from the HARTFORD TIMES, 1934-1967, and the SOUTHINGTON WEEKLY PHOENIX, 1878-1899, both of Connecticut, and abstracts of death and marriage notices, 1800-1850, from the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER. Also, Lucius Barnes Barbour's index to the vital records of Connecticut, ca. 1644-1866, and historical and genealogical records from 77 towns in central and western Massachusetts, and some from a few other states, 1650-1850, copied by Walter E. Corbin (1885-1960) and Lottie S. Corbin (b. 1884).

ArchivalResource: 18 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79679345 View

Randolph, Howard S. F. 1883-1956. Parish register of All Saints' Church, New York / transcribed by the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. New York City. 1928.

Title: Parish register of All Saints' Church, New York / transcribed by the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. New York City. 1928.

ArchivalResource: [3], 243 leaves ; 36 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/528755055 View

Church and town records, [ca. 1650-1930]

Title: Church and town records, [ca. 1650-1930]

Volumes contain manuscript and typescript copies, and some photocopies made by numerous genealogists from the records of New York State, primarily, churches and towns. Also, copies of records from churches and towns in New England, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere in the U.S. Information, dating from the 17th to the 20th century, consists very largely of records of births, deaths, and marriages. Also recorded are lists of church members, and records of baptisms, land records, and legal records. Of note are nine volumes of copies of records from Trinity Church in New York City. These record baptisms, 1749-1885, marriages, 1746-1886, and burials, 1777-1899. Lists of vaults and tombstones, including some from St. Paul's and St. John's Churches, are also included.

ArchivalResource: 20.6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155497119 View

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Letter, 1939 July 7.

Title: Letter, 1939 July 7.

Letter to Charlotte T. Luckhurst at Albany, N.Y. from Effingham L. Deforst, Exec. Secretary of the society, regarding material Luckhurst sent the society, "acknowledgement of Schoharie Lore; and Van der Veer genealogy as gifts."

ArchivalResource: 1 page.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122364358 View

Miscellaneous New York State records on microfilm, [ca. 1638-1942]

Title: Miscellaneous New York State records on microfilm, [ca. 1638-1942]

Microfilm copies of miscellaneous New York State town, county, church, court, and other records dating from approximately the 17th - 20th century. Of note are minutes of the New York Chancery Court, 1783-1847 (gaps); minutes of the Supreme Court, 1939-1942; various New York colonial records, including council minutes, 1638-1665 (gaps); Westbury Friends Monthly Meeting minutes, n.d.; General Sessions of the Pleas, Ulster County, 1711-1720; New York City directories, including Brooklyn, Queens, And Staten Island, 1796-1934 (gaps); and New York wills, 1680-1847. Copies of miscellaneous family Bible records, legal documents, revolutionary war pension records, are included. Genealogies including some family records of the Gitelson, Finch, Smith, Potter, Paddock, Matteson, Norton, Martlin, McChesney, De Witt, Clark, and other New York State families are also microfilmed.

ArchivalResource: 6.4 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82876203 View

Purple, Samuel S. (Samuel Smith), 1822-1900. Samuel Smith Purple collection, 1865-1882.

Title: Samuel Smith Purple collection, 1865-1882.

Correspondence of Samuel Smith Purple, M.D., relating to genealogy, the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, and the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, which he edited. Fourteen items are undated.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (82 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/727025434 View

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection locale files

Title: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection locale files

ArchivalResource:

http://archives.nypl.org/lhg/19873 View

Holton, David-Parsons, 1812?-1883. David Parsons Holton papers, 1855-1881.

Title: David Parsons Holton papers, 1855-1881.

David-Parsons Holton, M.D., was a founding member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. His papers contain correspondence, notebooks, genealogical research files, and ephemera documenting his research as a genealogist tracing the history and genealogy of the Parsons and Holton families, his experiences in Paris and Berlin in the 1850s, and his participation in a variety of historical, patriotic, educational, and philanthropic societies.

ArchivalResource: 1.26 linear feet (4 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/667217754 View

David Parsons Holton papers, 1855-1881

Title: David Parsons Holton papers 1855-1881

David-Parsons Holton, M.D., was a founding member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. His papers contain correspondence, notebooks, genealogical research files, and ephemera documenting his research as a genealogist tracing the history and genealogy of the Parsons and Holton families, his experiences in Paris and Berlin in the 1850s, and his participation in a variety of historical, patriotic, educational, and philanthropic societies.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 linear feet; 3 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/18107 View

New York Genealogical And Biographical Society. Appeal, 1913 Dec. 20.

Title: Appeal, 1913 Dec. 20.

For subscription to make up amount upon which Pierpont Morgan's subscription was contingent.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270727822 View

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society family files, 1644-2002

Title: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society family files 1644-2002

The collection consists of original family letters, bible records, legal documents, such as deeds and wills, and genealogical research notes and charts, relating principally to families of New York City and State. The materials range from 1654-2002, but date primarily from the 19th and 20th centuries

ArchivalResource: 22 linear feet (41 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/18274 View

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society family files, 1644-2002.

Title: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society family files, 1644-2002.

The collection consists of original family letters, bible records, legal documents, such as deeds and wills, and genealogical research notes and charts, relating principally to families of New York City and State. The materials range from 1654-2002, but date primarily from the 19th and 20th centuries.

ArchivalResource: 22 linear feet (41 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/664685017 View

Portrait photograph album, [ca. 1860-1914]

Title: Portrait photograph album, [ca. 1860-1914]

One album contains mid to late 19th century portrait photographs, largely studio portraits, in the form of cartes de visite, cabinet cards, and tintypes. Portraits are of unidentified men, women, and children, and a few celebrities including Abraham Lincoln, Tom Thumb and his wife, and actress Emma Waller. These were taken by photographers in Camden, Elizabeth, and Jersey City, N.J.; Long Island City, New York City, and Brooklyn, N.Y.; Washington D.C.; Pennsylvania; and possibly elsewhere. Of note are two portraits of black people, one of a young woman taken by a photograher in Elizabeth, N.J., and another of Samuel Math Francis, American-Sudan Mission, Freetown, Africa. Also of note are an advertisement for John Thompson & Co., a furniture manufacturer on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn; a business card of H.L. Bemis, General Electrician, of Glen Cove, Long Island; an advertisement for actress Emma Waller, ca. 1870s; a pamphlet from The Girls Friendly Society of America, located in New York City, 1893, announcing the death of General Secretary Letitia Townsend of Matinecock, Long Island from typhus at Riverside Hospital, North Brother Island, Queens, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: .7 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155497213 View

Genealogical vertical files, [ca. 1700-1986]

Title: Genealogical vertical files, [ca. 1700-1986]

Genealogical notes and charts, genealogists' correspondence, clippings and other printed materials, finished genealogies in typescript, and copies of town, church, military, and cemetery records and tombstone inscriptions. Material was created or gathered by numerous genealogists working from approximately the mid-19th century to the present. It documents the histories of approximately 2,000 families, mostly from New York State, with some from New England, New Jersey, and a few from elsewhere in the U.S. Also included among these files is a small amount of original 18th and 19th century family documents including correspondence, wills, deeds, and other legal documents, and photocopies of the family records that were inscribed in Bibles.

ArchivalResource: 135 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155497140 View

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society localities files, 1653-1986

Title: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society localities files 1653-1986

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear feet (6 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/18357 View

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society miscellany, 1869-1880.

Title: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society miscellany, 1869-1880.

Material from Holton's scrapbook relates to the establishment and early history of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, including announcements and other publications of the Society, and photocopies of newspaper clippings dealing with the Society and miscellaneous matters, 1869-1880; announcements of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1870-1872, the American Geographical Society, 1870s, the American Institute, 1872-1875, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1874, the Torrey Botanical Club, 1870, the Record Club, 1874, and the International Convention for the Amendment of English Orthography; broadsides and published announcements of New York City political events, addresses, lectures, and sermons, ca. 1869-1876; publication announcements, largely of genealogical works, of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and other groups; and correspondence, 1869-1877, dealing with the establishment and early operations of the Society. Correspondents include John Stagg Gautier, James Lenox, Samuel Smith Purple, Henry Reed Stiles, and others.

ArchivalResource: .4 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155496489 View

Family records/manuscript genealogies, [ca. 1900-1970]

Title: Family records/manuscript genealogies, [ca. 1900-1970]

Genealogies in typescript form done by numerous genealogists from approximately the turn of the century to the 1960s. Some genealogies contain copies of 18th - 20th century letters, wills, deeds, clippings, photographs, and miscellaneous other family documents. Families are largely from New York State, although some from New England, elsewhere in the U.S., and Europe are also documented. Information collected dates from approximately 11th - 20th century. Among the many families represented are Alverson, Barnhart, Bennet, Bernard, Brodhead, Card, Clarkson, Cortelyou, Crooke, De Graw, Delafield, Dumont, Edwards, Finney, Fitch, Garrett, Griswold, Gorham, Gulick, Hegeman, Howell, Janson, Kilmer, King, McChesney, Minckeler, Misner, Norcross, Oakley, Ostrander, Petty, Raynor, Sicard, Stanton, Staubach-Arnold, Steele, Stimpson, Sturtevant, Taft, Ten Broeck, Throne, Thorpe, Truax, Van Antwerp, Vanderbilt, Vignier, Walton, and Wiggin.

ArchivalResource: ca. 70 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155497131 View

Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1863-1879

Title: SIA RU000026, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, Correspondence, 1863-1879

This series consists mostly of correspondence addressed to Joseph Henry, much of which received his personal attention; also included are some copies of Henry letters, occasional returned original Henry letters, and a considerable number of letters to Spencer Fullerton Baird.

ArchivalResource: 59.56 cubic feet

https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_216640 View

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society records, 1884-1886, 1900-1901, 1901

Title: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society records 1884-1886, 1900-1901 1901

The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society was founded in 1869 to collect and disseminate information on the history and genealogy of American families. The small amount of records in this collection consist chiefly of letters written to the Society in 1901. Most are addressed to Society's secretary, Hiram Calkins, Jr. or treasurer Henry P. Gibson. Many concern membership in the NYG&B, subscriptions to or purchases of its publications. Some replies from Calkins are also present. There are accounting records and insurance policies, 1900-1901 as well as a postcard to and accounts kept by treasurer George H. Butler, 1884-1886

ArchivalResource: .42 linear foot (1 box)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/18115 View

Miscellaneous genealogical notes, [ca. 1850-1980]

Title: Miscellaneous genealogical notes, [ca. 1850-1980]

Collections consisting entirely or very largely of genealogical notes on the Albertson, Albro, Baker, Brewster, Brinkerhoff, Cocks, Cook, De Groat, De Puy, Dickerson, Hegeman, Lewis, Livingston, Macy, Maltby, Merwin, Mulford, Myers, Palmer, Petty, Purdy, Ripley, Rouse, Row, Schuyler, Stanton, Tuthill, and Van Kouwenhoven families, members of the Broadway Tabernacle, families in Schaghticoke, N.Y., and recipients of 17th and 18th century New Jersey civil and military commissions. These were produced between approximately the mid-19th century and the 1970s by various genealogists.

ArchivalResource: ca. 30 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155497157 View

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society records, 1884-1886, 1900-1901 (bulk 1901).

Title: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society records, 1884-1886, 1900-1901 (bulk 1901).

The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society was founded in 1869 to collect and disseminate information on the history and genealogy of American families. The small amount of records in this collection consist chiefly of letters written to the Society in 1901. Most are addressed to Society's secretary, Hiram Calkins, Jr. or treasurer Henry P. Gibson. Many concern membership in the NYG&B, subscriptions to or purchases of its publications. Some replies from Calkins are also present. There are accounting records and insurance policies, 1900-1901 as well as a postcard to and accounts kept by treasurer George H. Butler, 1884-1886.

ArchivalResource: .42 linear foot (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/730944969 View

Welcher, Emma Parke Avery. Emma Welcher correspondence, 1920-1930.

Title: Emma Welcher correspondence, 1920-1930.

A collection of genealogical correspondence sent to Emma Parke Avery Welcher and her sisters, Alice Lee Welcher and Amy Ogden Welcher, all of Hartford, Connecticut. One folder contains correspondence with Clarence W. Bowen and the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society regarding raising an endowment for the Society. The other significant topic of correspondence regards the Welcher sisters' publication of an Avery family genealogy.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/729400344 View

New York cemetery, church, and town records, [ca. 1900-1960]

Title: New York cemetery, church, and town records, [ca. 1900-1960]

Bound volumes containing manuscript and typescript copies of the approximately 18th - 20th century records of various New York State churches, cemeteries, and towns. Copies are the work of numerous genealogists, particularly Royden W. Vosburgh and Grenville C. McKenzie, who were active from approximately the turn of the century until the 1950s or 1960s. The information copied consists primarily of records of births, deaths, and marriages. Also recorded are baptisms, lists of church members, tombstone inscriptions, and miscellaneous other genealogical data.

ArchivalResource: 28 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155497179 View

Special manuscripts, [ca. 1596-1939].

Title: Special manuscripts, [ca. 1596-1939].

Included are 16th - 20th century correspondence, legal documents, maps, account books, reminiscences, tax lists, pew lists, family Bible records, marriage registers, and some genealogical notes, charts, and clippings. These have been separated from the Genealogical Vertical files due to their age or value. Materials relate primarily to New York State. Of note are a deed, 1596, Bristol, England, for land originally the property of John Carre, deceased, and sold to Robert Redwood by Thomas, John, and Robert Aldnorth, John Bithesey, and John Webb; an account book of Cornelius Clopper, 1743-1771; a tax list, 1783, from Hurley, N.Y.; an assessment roll, 1823, from Jamaica, Queens, N.Y.; a 1790 Federal census of Minisink, N.Y.; an appointment and memorandum book, 1859, of John M. Morell, Hamptonburgh, N.Y. (Morell was a Superintendant of Schools and the book contains lists of schools and teachers); and correspondence of the Caldwell family, 1798-1800, and of the Dean family, ca. 1820-1852. Also included are account books, receipts, wills, deeds, and indentures of the Hasbrouck family of New Paltz, and Kingston, N.Y., ca. 1700-1850.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155497234 View