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                Now Back in Print: New York State Censuses & Substitutes
by William Dollarhide

The New York State Censuses & Substitutes identifies and includes:

• 448 state census originals for New York’s 62 counties, located at 68 different New York repositories, plus transcripts/extracts, abstracts, or indexes in print, all with library call numbers and FHL film numbers.
• 120 statewide and regional name lists for New York, including tax lists, land records, military lists, newspaper indexes, CD-ROM publications, and online resources.
• 105 original 1850-1880 federal censuses held by 30 New York counties. (County duplicate originals on microfilm that can be compared with the microfilmed federal copies).
• Over 1,200 census substitutes and selected name lists. Substitutes include tax lists, voter registrations, military lists, and deed indexes. Selected lists include county histories, city directories, naturalization indexes, vital records indexes, or other unique name lists for a particular county.
• Over 1,500 online town references to find direct links to census extracts, indexes, or other name lists online.
• Over 3,700 bibliographic citations in total, each with detailed descriptions and notes, library call numbers, and FHL film numbers.
• 19 county boundary maps for the period 1683-1915, showing the evolution of all New York counties and adjoining jurisdictions in bordering states and Canada.
• 26 NY State Census Extraction Forms, 1825-1925, with all NY population, military, agriculture, industry, births, deaths, and marriage schedules; plus the 1890 NY Police Census, and the 1880 Short Form; and includes 26 New York State Census Facsimiles, showing the actual state census schedules, tables, pages, and columns

Published in 2006 by Genealogical Publishing Company, 229 pp., softcover, 8 ½ x 11  $32.95 plus shipping

Genealogical Resources in New York, edited by Estelle M. Guzik.

NB4101 Genealogical Resources in New York updates the acclaimed 1989 reference book, Genealogical Resources in the New York Metropolitan Area. For each of 82 libraries, archives and record repositories, this book provides an expanded description of holdings, new acquisitions, geographic scope of collections, years covered and finding aids. Thirty-two government agencies and 50 archives and libraries are included. This new editions is the most comprehensive guide to genealogical and biographical resources in New York City and Albany.

Published in 2003 by Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc., New York. Hardcover, 9"x11.25", index, maps, 418 pp.  $49.95 plus shipping

New York State Probate Records: A Genealogist's Guide to Testate and Intestate Records by Gordon L. Remington      

NB5111  A watershed book created to provide genealogists with tools to locate probate records in New York State from the past 300 years. This guide also gives practical information on how to access those records through the Family History Library in Salt Lake City in addition to each of New York's sixty-two County Surrogate Courts (the courts in charge of probating estates in New York today), other repositories, and references to published abstracts in both books and periodicals.     

Published in 2002 by the New England Historic Genealogic Society, 176 pp. softcover, 8 ½ x 11 out of stock

New York State Towns, Villages, and Cities: A Guide to Genealogical Sources, by Gordon L. Remington                                           

 NB5112 This guide is an essential tool to help locate published and transcribed records for New York State's nearly 1,700 municipalities.

The tables in this book give information on each of New York's towns, villages, and cities: the county in which it is located, the date of organization or incorporation, church and cemetery records and the repositories in which they are found, and other valuable information for the reader.

There is also exciting new information on a little known source called "Town Clerk's Register of Men Who Served in the Civil War," that indicated whether those records survive for each town.

 Published in 2002 by the New England Historic Genealogic Society, 80 pp., softcover, 8 ½ x 11,  out of stock

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