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Manhattan / New York City, New York This Site is part of The NY GenWeb Project & The USGenWeb® Project Hello, Welcome to the Manhattan Borough portion of the NYGenWeb. Manhattan Borough has been totally rejuvenated. My name is Martha and I am the new County Coordinator. I do not live in New York, but am an experienced online Researcher, I will be happy to answer questions and perhaps help locate that missing piece of your ’Ancestral Pie’ I can be contacted via Email: Please use this Link With Thanks to all former County Coordinators: 1996 - 2015: Kristen Howell ~ 2015 - 2016: Martha Magill ~ 2017: Bridget Key Table of Contents History ~ Biographies ~ Search ~ Maps ~ Queries ~ Lookups ~ What’s New Vital Records ~ Obituaries ~ Family Search: Historical Images Cemeteries ~ Military ~ Native American Resources ~ Crime and Punishment ~ Odds & Ends [And Old Manhattan Co. Files] Search Manhattan County Search Manhattan County Neighbors: Richmond [Staten Island] ~ Bronx ~ Queens ~ Kings [Brooklyn] and in New Jersey Bergen and Hudson Counties History ~ Biographies ~ Maps ~ Queries ~ Lookups ~ What’s New A Brief History of Manhattan: Wiki ~ World Trade Center Memorial New York City Places and Spaces [New Archive Site] "Former Towns of NY City" [Wiki] Books and Biographies I have located a nice selection of Historical Books and Biographies: FS Catalog & The Archive.org Site New These three new books can be found here "Woman’s Who’s Who of America" A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada 1914-1915: John William Leonard, Editor-in-Chief New York: The American Commonwealth Company There is no Alpha Index, instead the Authors saw fit to make one that is titled: "Her Married Name". There is an Addenda - Corrections set of pages. The Bios are listed Alphabetically . The book can be read online or downloaded ///??\\\ "Men of America" A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries Edited By: John W Leonard L R Hamersly & Company One West Thirty Fourth Street, New York city: 1908 There is no TOC or Index ~ Entries are Alphabetical Read Online or Download ///??\\\ "Men and Women of America" A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries L R Hamersly & Company One West Thirty Fourth Street, New York city: 1910 Copyright 1909 By L R Hamersly & Company, New York There is no TOC or Index ~ Entries are Alphabetical Read Online or Download "The Bench and Bar of New York containing Biographical Sketches of Eminent Judges, and Lawyers of the New-York Bar,..." By: L B Proctor, Counselor At Law, New -York: Diossy & Company: 1870 There is no Index, instead the Table of Contents lists each Person I have created Sections which relate to each Page of the TOC All of the Files are Here: TOC & Split out Sections ///??\\\ "History of the Bench and Bar of New York" Edited By: David McAdam ~ Henry Bischoff, Jr Richard H Clarke ~ Jackson O Dykman Joshua M Van Cott ~ George G Reynolds Volumes I & II New York History Company 132 Nassau Street: 1897 Note: There are no Indexes to either Volume: Additionaly, there are entries out of alpha order in the first Vol. I have split out Alpha Sections for each Vol: They can be found here In Vol I, there are three ’Footnote’ Bios: Hoffman, Josiah O, P 141 ~ Kilpatrick, Andrew, P 130 ~ Paterson, William, P 135 Beginning with Page 525 of Vol I: ’Out of Order Bios’ AC [Pgs 525-548] ~ DF [Pgs 548-556] ~ GJ [Pgs 556-569] KM [Pgs 570-579] ~ NR [579-588] ~ SZ [588-598] ///??\\\ Illustrated History of the Borough of Queens: By George Von Skal Compiled By: FT Smiley Publishing Co., New York City: 1908 The Index and Sectons are Here ~ Read Online or Download ///??\\\ History of the Bronx Borough: City of New York Compiled for the North Side News: Randall Comfort, AB, LLB North Side News Press, 149th Street and Bergen Avenue, 1906 The Biographical and Historical Indexes are Here ~ Sections are Here ///??\\\ The aristocracy of New York, who they are and what they were : being a social and business history of the city for many years Author: Armstrong, William, 1718- ///??\\\ Autobiography of N.T. Hubbard : with personal reminiscences of New York City from 1789 to 1875 Author: Hubbard, N. T. (Nathaniel Tuthill), 1785- ///??\\\ Biographical catalogue descriptive of the portraits belonging to the Society of the New York Hospital Author: Society of the New York Hospital ///??\\\ The Brown book : a biographical record of public officials of the city of New York for 1898-9 ///??\\\ Contributions to the history of ancient families of New Amsterdam and New York Author: Purple, Edwin R. (Edwin Ruthven), 1831-1879; Purple, Samuel S. (Samuel Smith), 1822-1900 ///??\\\ General biographical catalogue of Auburn Theological Seminary, 1818-1918 Author: Auburn Theological Seminary (New York, New York); Adams, John Quincy, 1849-1940; Hinke, William John, 1871-1947 ///??\\\ Herringshaw’s city blue book of biography : New Yorkers of 1917 , ten thousand biographies: Several Years, 1916-1917-1919 ///??\\\ History of the City of New York, 1609-1909 : from the earliest discoveries to the Hudson-Fulton... Author: Leonard, John William The Index is Here: The Biographies are on pages 485-953 Read Online or Download ///??\\\ In memoriam, Rev. G.F. Krotel, D.D., LL. D. : born February 4, 1826, died May 17, 1907 ///??\\\ Leslie’s history of the greater New York Author: Van Pelt, Daniel There are Three Volumes, the Index and Biographies are in Vol 3 Read Online or Download ///??\\\ Lives of the clergy of New York and Brooklyn : embracing two hundred biographies of eminent living men in all denominations. Also, the history of each sect and congregation Author: Patten, J Alexander (James Alexander) ///??\\\ Makers of New York : an historical work, giving portraits and sketches of the most eminent citizens of New York Author: Morris, Charles, 1833-1922 The Index and Sections are Here ///??\\\ The New York of Yesterday : a descriptive narrative of old Bloomingdale, its topographical features, its early families and their genealogies... Author: Mott, Hopper Striker, 1854-; Reformed Church (Bloomingdale, New York) There are marvelous records in this Book: Biographies ~ Baptism Records ~ Marriages: Bks 1 & 2 ~ Appendex ///??\\\ Notable New Yorkers of 1896-1899 : a companion volume to King’s handbook of New York City Author: King, Moses, 1853-1909 ///??\\\ Off-hand portraits of prominent New Yorkers Author: Fiske, Stephen, 1840-1916 ///??\\\ The old merchants of New York City [5Vols] Author: Barrett, Walter ///??\\\ Prominent families of New York : being an account in biographical form of individuals and families... Author: Historical Company (New York, N.Y.) ///??\\\ Recollections of persons and events chiefly in the city of New York : being selections from his journal Author: Mathews, J. M. (James McFarlane), 1785-1870 ///??\\\ A seven years’ record of the Society of Alumni of Bellevue Hospital, 1915-1921 : being the year-book with memorials of those who died in the Great War Author: Carlisle, Robert J. The Index is Here ///??\\\ Sunshine and shadow in New York Author: Smith, Matthew Hale, 1810-1879 Note: Really interesting history of "Social Life" ///??\\\ Who’s who in New York, city and state: 1904, 1907, 1909, 1914 [1904-Film] ///??\\\ The NY Genealogical & Biographical Record , Many Films / with Indexes Maps Historical Maps and Atlases for New York City [Public Library] Smithsonian: Interactive Map for New York City [1836Now] Historic District Maps for Manhattan Digital Atlases for New York City ~ NY City Map: Online Portal NY Digital Gallery of Maps: Extensive Collection of Antiquarian Maps Getty Geographical Thesaurus ~ Perry Castaneda ~ Quadrangles Surveyor’s Base Maps Bureau of Land Management USGS Maps ~ 1869 Railroad Map ~ Sanborn Maps: Library of Congress Michael Fox Map Collection ~ Digitized Plat Maps / Atlases Map Goose ~ The Alabama Collection Borchert Map Library ~ "Home Town Locator" The Viele Map of underground waterways Queries & Lookups There is a...