Queens 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 City is the county seat of this borough/county, as well as the county seat of Richmond, Kings, Bronx, and New York Counties Don't forget to check our New York City website for data that didn't specify any specific place other than "New York City" "Queens" is co-extensive with Queens county Originally, Queens County included the area now comprising Nassau County. From 1683 until 1784, Queens County consisted of these towns: Flushing, Hempstead, Jamaica, Newtown, Oyster Bay The town of North Hempstead was added in 1784 City of Long Island City - 1870 All of Flushing, Jamaica, Long Island City, and Newtown, as well as the Rockaway Peninsula portion of Hempstead were consolidated into Greater New York in 1898. The rest of Hempstead and the Towns of North Hempstead and Oyster Bay split from Queens County to form Nassau County in 1899. County Seat: New York City Year Organized: 1683 as one of the 12 original counties Square Miles: 309 Queens Borough was established on Jan 1, 1898 Courthouse Info: City Hall 52 Chambers Street New York, NY 10007-1222 Names of Queens 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: ADAMS obit July 2011: PAYNE bio June 2011: bio for HALL, SAYRES; ULLMAN obit; wills for BURROUGHS, RAPELYE, SEAMAN, SMITH, TITUS, TOWNSEND May 2011: Neighborhoods; bio of HUNT; obits for FRANKLIN, CAMPBELL, KREISA, WAGNER, WALCUTT, WIGGINS, ACKERY, CARMEN, DURYEA, FROST, RUDYARD, WOODEN; Index to ESTATE INVENTORIES, 1666-1775 Previous Updates: 1930 Merchant Seamen Census; obit of McMAHON Search Our Sites | Join Our Mailing Lists (New York is covered on the Northeast Mailing List)       Visit our NY State Site Surrounding Counties Bronx Nassau New York Kings 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.