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Genealogical
Resources The most comprehensive guide available to genealogical and biographical resources in New York City and Albany. For each of the 82 libraries, archives and record repositories, this book provides a detailed description of holdings, new acquisitions, geographic scope of collections, years covered and finding aids. The 82 institutions represented include 32 government agencies and 50 archives and libraries. It is the sequel to the acclaimed 1989 reference book Genealogical Resources in the New York Metropolitan Area. Both books were published by the New York-based Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc. A complete Table of Contents is shown below. 8½" x 11" 432 pp. hardcover $35.00 |
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Contents
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
MANHATTAN (New York County)
Agudath Israel of America, Orthodox Jewish Archives . . . . . . . . . . . 3
American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Board of Elections, Manhattan Borough Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Center for Jewish History, Lillian Goldman Main Reading Room . . . . . . 13
American Jewish Historical Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
American Sephardi Federation - Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 23
Center Genealogy Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Hadassah Archives at the American Jewish Historical Society . . . . . .28
Leo Baeck Institute, Library - Archives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Yeshiva University Museum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Archives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
.City Clerk's Office, Marriage License Bureau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
City Register's Office, Manhattan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Civil Court of the City of New York, Manhattan (New York County). . . . . 65
County Clerk's Office - State Supreme Court, New York County (Manhattan). 67
Division of Old Records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Ellis Island Immigration Museum
American Family Immigration History Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
National Park Service Archives and Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Family History Center (LDS), Manhattan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, The Klau Library . . 81
HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), Location and Arrival Records Department 85
Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, Lloyd George Sealy Library 93
Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, Library and Archives96
National Archives and Records Administration, Northeast Region (New York City)98
New York Academy of Medicine, Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Office of Vital Records111
New York City Department of Records and Information Services
Municipal Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Municipal Reference and Research Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Library . . . . . . . . . 129
New-York Historical Society, Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
New York Public Library
Humanities and Social Sciences Library, General Research Division and Microforms Room137
Dorot Jewish Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy150
Manuscript and Archives Division. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Map Division. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs . 167
Slavic and Baltic Division. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center . . . . . . . . . 175
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL). . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
New York University, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
Tamiment Institute Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives . . . . 187
Old York Library, City University of New York , Graduate Center . . . . . 190
Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration, Archives. . . . . . . . . . . 192
Surrogate's Court - New York County (Manhattan), Record Room . . . . . . 194
Yeshiva University
Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Mendel Gottesman Library of Hebraica-Judaica . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Young Men's & Young Women's Hebrew Association (92nd Street "Y"), Archives207
BRONX
Board of Elections, Bronx Borough Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Bronx County Historical Society, Research Library and Archives. . . . . . 213
City Register's Office, Bronx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Civil Court of the City of New York, Bronx County . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
County Clerk's Office - State Supreme Court, Bronx County . . . . . . . . 220
Surrogate's Court - Bronx County, Record Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
BROOKLYN (Kings County)
Board of Education, School Records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Board of Elections, Brooklyn Borough Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Brooklyn Historical Society, Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Library . 229
Brooklyn Public Library
Business Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Central Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
City Register's Office, Brooklyn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Civil Court of the City of New York, Brooklyn (Kings County). . . . . . . 242
County Clerk's Office - State Supreme Court, Kings County (Brooklyn). . . 243
Sephardic Community Center, Sephardic Archives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Surrogate's Court - Kings County (Brooklyn), Record Room. . . . . . . . . 247
QUEENS
Board of Elections, Queens Borough Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
City Register's Office, Queens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Civil Court of the City of New York, Queens County. . . . . . . . . . . . 254
County Clerk's Office - State Supreme Court, Queens County. . . . . . . . 255
Queens Borough Public Library, Long Island Division . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Surrogate's Court - Queens County, Record Room. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
STATEN ISLAND (Richmond County)
Board of Elections, Staten Island Borough Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Civil Court of the City of New York, Staten Island (Richmond County). . . 270
County Clerk's Office-State Supreme Court, Richmond County (Staten Island)271
Staten Island Historical Society, Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences-History Archives and Library 277
Surrogate's Court - Richmond County (Staten Island), Record Room. . . . . 279
ALBANY
New York State Department of Education
New York State Archives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
New York State Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
New York State Department of Health, Vital Records Section. . . . . . . . 294
New York State Dept. of State, Div. of Corporations and Div. of Licensing 296
APPENDICES
APPENDIX A - Soundex Code Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
APPENDIX B - Bibliography of Eastern European Memorial (Yizkor) Books . . 302
APPENDIX C - Application Forms for Genealogical Records
C-1 Marriage License - New York City Marriage License Bureau . . . . . 362
C-2 Birth Record - New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Office of Vital Records363
C-3 Death Record - New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Office of Vital Records364
C-4 Birth Record - New York City Municipal Archives. . . . . . . . . . 365
C-5 Death Record - New York City Municipal Archives. . . . . . . . . . 366
C-6 Marriage Record - New York City Municipal Archives . . . . . . . . 367
C-7 General Information & Application for Genealogical Services,
New York State Department of Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
APPENDIX D - New York Public Library Microforms Division - City Directories
(Other than NYC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
APPENDIX E - New York Public Library - Foreign Telephone Directories. . . 376
APPENDIX F - New York Public Library-Selected U.S. and Foreign Newspapers 378
APPENDIX G - New York Area Jewish Cemeteries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
APPENDIX H - "Before the Five-Borough City," by Harry Macy, Jr. . . . . . 387
INDEXES
Subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
MAPS
Lower Manhattan Repositories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2A
Midtown Manhattan Repositories .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2B
Uptown Manhattan . Repositories.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2C
Bronx Repositories .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Brooklyn Repositories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Queens Repositories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Staten Island Repositories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Albany Repositories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
New York Area Jewish Cemeteries .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .386