Program areas at New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
The nyg&b offers personalized research tours to repositories. Annual tours include visits to albany, New York city, and elsewhere. In addition to free monthly online programming, the nyg&b offers guidedheritage tours to international destinations and hands-on workshops covering a multitude of topics to New York family history and genealogy. In addition, the nyg&b offers the New York state family history conference, New York's only statewide family history event.
The nyg&b publishes the New York Genealogical and Biographical record, a renowned peer reviewed quarterly that documents New York families and the New York researcher, a quarterly magazine devoted to sharing research articles and other timely information relating to New York family history. Significant publications also include the New York family history research guide and gazetter, tracing immigrants to New York, New York city municipal archives: an authorized guide, and a forthcoming guide to the holdings of the New York state archives for geneologists and local historians. In addition, the nyg&b publishes millions of records online at newyorkfamilyhistory.org.
The nyg&b welcomes members from across the united states who are interested in discovering and preserving New York stories. Our website, newyorkfamilyhistory.org, provides access to extensive New York records, an in-depth knowledge base of articles and research aids, and guides to each of New York's 62 counties. The nyg&b also offers personalized consultations and research services for individuals and organizations.
The nyg&b actively engages in preserving and digitizing New York records, making materials accessible through its website newyorkfamilyhistory.org. In addition, the nyg&b offers individual consultations and conducts research projects on an ad-hoc basis.