New York State Resources Online

New York State Genealogy Web Sites with 

Some Emphasis on Western New York

Submitted by Ethelyn F. Bishop

March 15, 2011

Overall

http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogysleuthb.htm

http://www.dar.org/library/onlinlib.cfm

http://www.buffaloresearch.com/searchable.html

http://www.worldcat.org/

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nygenweb/

http://history.rays-place.com/ny/

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/

http://www.CyndisList.com/ny.htm

Tools

http://www.ourtimelines.com/create_tl_2c.html

Vital Records

http://www.deathindexes.com/newyork/index.html

http://www.webring.org/hub/westernnewyorkge

The New York Genealogy Web Ring is a selection of family, personal and other websites that are related to family genealogy research in the state of New York.

http://wnyroots.tripod.com/index-lan-stmarys-cem.html

http://sampubco.com/wills/ny/newyork.htm

http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi

  for social security death index

http://www.distantcousin.com/Search/index.html

http://www.big101.com/OBITUARIES101.htm

Immigration and Naturalization

http://www.genealogybranches.com/newyork.html

http://www.genealogybranches.com/ellisisland/nypassengers.html

http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogynewyork.htm

  for naturalization petitions

http://www.castlegarden.org/

http://www.stevemorse.org/ellis/cg.html

  for castle garden one step

http://www.progenealogists.com/palproject/ny/

  for Palatines in early 1700’s

http://www.footnote.com/documents/6351077/naturalization-index-ny-western/?img=4&xid=17

http://www.distantcousin.com/Search/index.html

Census

http://www.wnygs.org/census_index.html

http://search.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=1054

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/

Land Records

http://distantcousin.com/Directories/NY/Buffalo/1869/F.html

  for city directory

http://www.courthousedirect.com/MapView.aspx?StateID=36 $

http://buffaloresearch.com/maps.html#Erie

http://history.rays-place.com/ny/lancaster-ny.htm

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/erie1/

Military

http://www.newyork-genealogy.com/New-York-Military-Records.cfm

  Overall compilation of sources

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/colonial/census/1840/1840ny_a.html

http://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-list.jsp?cat=GP23

http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/

http://www.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/index

http://www.archives.gov/research/military/genealogy.html

http://www.ancestry.com/militaryrecords

http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~xander/new-york-records.htm

http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/genealogy/civwar.htm

http://www.archives.gov/northeast/nyc/public/military-records-nyc.html

Newspapers

http://xooxleanswers.com/newspaperarchives4.aspx

Compilation

http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogynewyork.htm http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/