New York City New York Genealogy and History     This site is available for adoption! Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this website become a useful research tool. If you would like to join our group and become the host of this county, please read what we're all about on our Volunteer Page and email Kim (A desire to transcribe data and basic webpage skills are necessary) Until we get a dedicated volunteer to maintain this site, we'll do the best we can to add data as we come across it. You can send your family's raw data (transcribed birth/marriage/death, cemetery, census, biography records) to us and we'll include it on this site. WE REGRET THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO DO PERSONAL RESEARCH FOR YOU. All data we come across will be added to this website, so please keep checking back. County Information Settled in 1624, New York City isn't actually a county. It's the county seat of 5 counties (also known as boroughs): The Bronx (Bronx County) Brooklyn (Kings County) Manhattan (New York County) Queens (Queens County) Staten Island (Richmond County) Midtown Manahattan Skyline Author: Andreas Meck Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License New York City has the most number of people living in it than any other city in the U.S, well over 8 million, and they're all packed in... making NY City the most densely populated city in the country, and the world as well. That poses a big challenge for researchers, especially when many sources simply cite "New York City" as the location of the individual. So this site will be for all those pieces of genealogical data designated simply as "New York City". If something says Brooklyn or Manhattan or any of the other boroughs, we'll put it on those county sites, so check those sites as well as here. New York City consolidated with the Counties of Bronx (The Bronx), Kings (Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Queens (Queens), and Richmond (Staten Island) in 1874. Online Data Biographies Birth Records Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Mar 2012: Fire stories Jan 2012: SMITH obit; Crime news for SCHULTZ Oct 2011: bios for FOOTE, BEHRMAN, L'ESPERANCE, BAKER, BENSON, CLARK, DRIGGS, FENDLER, FIELD, HOFFMAN, KEATING, KUHLMAN; death notices for GIBBONS, MORAN, WAGNER, ANDERSON, TAAMSON; Crime news re: SHERIDAN June 2011: Obituaries for ;CARSTARPHEN, CREMIN, FISCHER, LESTER, MORRIS, FISCHER, TILTON, TOLE, WOLFF, STORER, OSGOOD, BURTON; Crime news items; Marriage announcements for REASON-CHASE; FAIRCHILD-TANNER; Birth announcements for DERE, SILVERMAN; biography concerning MERRILL (FAY); SMITH Previous Updates: 1890 birth records; 1900 Death Records (A & B Surnames); various obituaries and news stories Search Our Sites | Join Our Mailing Lists (New York is covered on the Northeast Mailing List)       Visit our NY State Site Surrounding Counties: New York City is the county seat for these 5 boroughs: The Bronx (Bronx County) Brooklyn (Kings County) Manhattan (New York County) Queens (Queens County) Staten Island (Richmond County) Visit the National Genealogy Trails Site       Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.