Genealogy: Statewide Resources
Here you can find online records and resources related to genealogy. The resources are organized into :
| Finding Aids | |
| Documentation Projects | |
| Web Exhibits | |
| Publications | |
| Digital Collections | |
| Additional Resources | |
| Selected Catalog Records |
Historical societies, libraries, museums, archives, and other organizations around New York provide resources for family historians and genealogists. You can find valuable details in diaries, letters, business records, deeds, wills, photographs, oral history tapes, and many other types of information created by people and organizations in the course of their daily activities.
- Find a repository near your ancestral home through the New York State Historical Records Repository Directory
Local governments, whether a town, city, school, or county, often hold records, such as birth, marriage, death, military, naturalization, and court records, that relate to individuals.
- Find a local government that might hold your family records by searching the Directory of New York State Local Governments
Local historians often maintain files on prominent families and business in a community.
- Contact a local government for the name of their municipal historian.
Continue your search for records in the Historic Documents Inventory, a statewide catalog of historic records.
Do you know of an online index, finding, exhibit, or other resource that relates to this topic? If so, please send a message to dhs@mail.nysed.gov so that we can include your link in this resource.