Education
and Research Center
Records
Listed below are
links to a number
of records that might assist you in the research you do about
your family's history. There are
examples and explanations of many of these records and other documents
that are at a minimum interesting, though they will be most
important to someone who wishes to delve deeper into their own family
genealogy. The understanding of what information each record
or report contains will better enable each of us to use
these resources to their maximum benefit. This Records page is a work-in-progress; please follow the active links to the desired web
page.
VITAL RECORDS:
Birth Records (New
York City)
Marriage Records (New
York City)
Death Records
Death Certificates (New York
City)
Death Certificates (New
York State)
Burial-Transit Permits
The International
Classification of Diseases (ICD)
CENSUS REPORTS:
Federal Census
City Census (New York City)
NEW YORK CITY & TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES:
City Directories
Telephone Directories
SOCIAL SECURITY RECORDS:
Death Index
VOTER REGISTRATION RECORDS:
Board of Elections Voter
Registration
MILITARY RECORDS:
World War I Draft Registration
Cards
World War II Draft Registration
Cards
World War II Army Enlistment
Records
IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION RECORDS:
Immigration
Ship Manifests
Script Samples
Given Names
Towns of
Last Residence
Deciphering Upper Case Letters
Certificates of Arrival
Passenger
Arrival Card Indexes
HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid
Society) Cards
Naturalization
Naturalization Records
Military
Naturalizations
"Old
Law" Naturalizations
Women and U.S. Naturalization Law
PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORDS:
New York City Building Photos
1939-1941 |