New York County 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 New York County New York County was one of the original twelve counties of the Province of New York in 1683. It was named for the Duke of York and Albany. The New York County consists of Manhattan Island and several small adjacent islands: Roosevelt Island, Randall's Island, Wards Island, Governors Island, Liberty Island, part of Ellis Island, Mill Rock, and U Thant Island; as well as Marble Hill, a small section on the mainland adjacent to the Bronx. The original city of New York began at the southern end of Manhattan, and expanded northwards. Land was added between 1874 and 1898 from surrounding counties. The County of New York is the most densely populated county in the United States. Manhattan is loosely divided into Downtown, Midtown, and Uptown Manhattan's boundaries are identical to the county's. NY County is co-extensive with Manhattan and New York City. New York City consolidated with the Counties of Bronx (The Bronx), Kings (Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Queens (Queens), and Richmond (Staten Island) in 1874. List of Manhattan Neighborhoods Online Data Biographies Births 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: Apr 2012: Blackwell's Island history. Execution news story. Fire news story Jan 2012: SWETT bio; SMITH obit Dec 2011: CARY, WILLIAMS, BRIGHT, BROMBERG bios Nov 2011: AMES, ASTOR, BARRY, BENHAM, BENJAMIN, BOKEE, BOLTON, BRENT, BRIGHAM, BRISTED, BROOKS, BROWN, BRYSON, BUTLER, CAMPBELL, ROBINSON, BABCOCK, HINES bios; ECKFORD obit; Fire news story; building collapse story; CASEY obit Oct 2011: FULTON bio; CORCORAN death notice; building collapse story Aug 2011: TORRIANI, STOREY obit July 2011: GEORGE, KEYSER, COOPER bios; CRONAN, STRAVINSKY obits June 2011: List of Churches, Cemeteries, Obits for BAXTER, WATTS, WARD, FERARN, FUND, BEEKMAN, PABOR, MURPHY; history item New York 50 years ago; bios for MOLINEUS, HALL, HANKS, HUBBARD, WILKES, TODD, REYNOLDS, KING, DE LA VERGNE, VAN COTT, VIELD, SEGUIN, PRESTON, VAN BUREN, KELLOGG, IRWIN, GARDEN, WITHERS, FIELD, DUTCHER, PITCHER, HINTON, SMITH, LAWRENCE, SCOTT, SMILLIE, HAGUE; Wills for BEVANS, CHADWICK, FOY, FRED, HALL, HARSIN, KIP, RUTGERS, SAMPLE, SCURLOCK, TEN EYCK, TROUP, VREELAND; Index to Estate Inventories, 1666-1775 Previous Updates: Newspaper Gleanings: Marriages, Engagements, Obits Search Our Sites | Join Our Mailing Lists (New York is covered on the Northeast Mailing List)       Visit our NY State Site Surrounding Counties Kings Queens Bronx Richmond Bergen County, NJ Hudson County, NJ 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.