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• Queens Historical Society
Kingsland Mansion, 143-55 37th Avenue Flushing. • Greater Astoria Historical Society Quinn's Gallery (4th Floor ), 35-20 Broadway, Long Island City, N. Y. 11103 - 718-278-2437 • Bayside Historical Society P.O. Box 133 Bayside, NY 11361 Tel - 718-352-1548 FAX 718-352-3904 • Richmond Hill Historical Society • Jewish Genealogical Society, Queens page P.O. Box 6398, New York, N.Y. 10128 • New York Historical Society 2 West 77th Street, NY, NY 10024 Tue-Sun 11-5 -- 212-873-3400 • New York Genealogical & Biographical Society 122 East 58th Street, New York, NY 10022-1939 - 212-755-8532 
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• Queens Library, Long Island Division
• Queens Branch libraries • Queens Library catalog MARION • Nassau Co. library catalogs • nassaulibrary.org • NYC area library catalogs
• LI Library Resource Center
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| HISTORICAL | ||
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• Queens Chamber of Commerce
• Nassau Co History page • Richmond Hill info page • Hunters Point Tour • Long Island City Home Page • Queens: The City's Utopia architectural development • Medieval Astoria • Historical pages on [Hell Gate] [Queensboro] [Triborough] Bridges • Town of Hempstead site [Archive] [History] • Suffolk Co. site • WPA personal histories • Queens Courier archives • A page on the Sinking of the Gen'l Slocum a 1904 tragedy in which over a thousand people lost their lives Newsday's "Long Island: Our Story" Has an excellent series of articles and photographs of Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties. A few good pages to start at: [Histories of 300 towns] [Queens links page] Venture into the Front page only if you have a fast connection. The Cemetery Belt "Why does Queens have so many cemeteries?" by Rhona Amon of the Newsday staff Queens BBS |
MAPS - for download • Queens neighborhood contemporary outlines • Neighborhood maps (Queens Library) • A personal site, nycsubway.org has contemporary NYC Subway track maps as high or low resolution GIFs, route maps and historical maps including portions of 1888 USGS maps of Jamaica and Rockaway • 1906 L.I. town maps from Newsday click on image map at the top of the page • Interactive NYC neighborhood map • historical map s of Long Island and of NY State from David Yehling Allen at SUNY Stony Brook. Don't miss the Links page • UT Austin's list of Historical Map links PAPER MAPS - for purchase • Historical Ink Markets copies ($11) of old maps of NY and New England, including individual maps from an 1873 Beers Atlas of Kings, Queens and Suffolk • Slocum Historical maps sells inexpensive ($5.95)repros of US city maps • Gleason's markets inexpensive ($5) repros of pages from a 1891 atlas of the Hudson Valley • heritageantiquemaps.com, and their New York page (expensive originals) • generationspress.com repro maps • wardmaps.com • communityheritagemaps.com • Queens Public Library's list of maps in their collection • genealogy.com's NY maps page | |
| INFORMATIONAL | ||
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• Queens Branch libraries (hint: if you'd
like to get a flavor of Queens neighborhoods, each branch library page
features a short description of the area and a photo of the library building
• The LDS's research guides to localities and subjects CENSUS INFO • Page on Rochester Gen. Soc.'s list of New York State Census, includes a list of available Microfilm • AGLL's page of Queens microfilm reels for sale (note that they don't have State census for Queens) • Rootsweb's page on [N.Y.S. links] N.Y.S. Census Incorrectly omits Queens from its list of 1892 census available. STREET NAME CHANGES • In Queens (Steve Morse) • Astoria • Richmond Hill VITAL RECORDS • My table of repositories for Queens vital records • Good overviews of vital records from the N.Y. State Archives and the N.Y. State Library • vitalrec.com has state research guides to Vital Records [New York State] [Queens County] • Nassau County vital records] CHURCHES • Brooklyn Diocese web page CEMETERIES • Cemeteries, Queens from Genweb • Catholic cemeteries Brooklyn Diocese page • list of Queens cemeteries • Queens Jewish cemetery list from Jewish Gen. Org. • Brooklyn cemetery list addresses/phone #s SCHOOLS • NYC Board of Ed school lookup this page leads you to lists, by district, of all NYC public schools. Queens schools fall into districts 24-30 • Long Island school links • Nassau Co. public schools • PS 1, L.I. City LINK PAGES (also see genealogical link pages, below) •Queens pages from about.com | Yahoo | epodunk | epodunk communities Wikipedia: Queens County | Queens neighborhoods • A few Open Directory sites: [NYC] [Queens] [LI guides] • Long Island's Page of Pages • My genealogy links page has several useful NYC links |
VISITING QUEENS ARCHIVES • Subway route map of downtown Jamaica from nycsubway.org • My walking map of the Jamaica archives (43k) • courtguide.com has research primers, travel directions, floor plans, screen-shots of on-site programs and street maps for NY area courts, including Queens County Courthouse. Be warned that their address for the City Register is out of date. NEWSPAPER Web sites • fultonhistory.com Scanned archival NY State newspapers • Queens Tribune • Queens Courier • New York Times, [Post], [Daily News], • Newsday [archive] • Links to New York newspaper Web sites not necessarily archival • newsbrowser.com full text search, newspaper selection recent vintage - NY Newsday is included • Obit links in NY State Good page of small papers . • Open Directory's NY NP links • Long Island Voice LOCAL Web sites (not necessarily genealogical, but some have historical sections) List of links to some Queens neighborhood sites • queensnewyork.com also has neighborhood links. • Maspeth site (has posted a reprint of 1889 article on the History of Maspeth) • Queens Connection • Long Island City's licweb • Steinway Street • influshing.com • queensboard.com • da Queens Stoop • Old Kew Gardens Web efforts in neighboring boroughs • NYC Marriage index Not comprehensive, but thousands of index entries, nonetheless. From five published sources, including indexes to some marriage registers for Manhattan (1869-1880) and Brooklyn (1895-1897). (Queens is not represented). • A Brooklyn information page includes table of 1880 Brooklyn/ Manhattan ED boundaries and several other valuable tables • A personal Brooklyn page The owner has been transcribing background articles from 19th century Brooklyn Eagles. • Longwood Gen. Group has 1868 Queens directories online • longislandgenealogy.com A private site; lists, transcripts, cemetery lists • NY libraries online Internet Public Library | |
| GENEALOGY Web sites | ||
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• Queens genealogy message boards at Genforum | Ancestry | • ROOTS-L New York resources page • New York State GenWeb Project • NYCGenWeb Queens page | Nassau | Kings Co. (Brooklyn) • Linkpendium's Queens page |
LINK PAGES • Cyndi's List New York State page • NUCMC's page of NY State archives • Archives in Eastern United States University of Idaho's link-list • links to New York State record sites U. Michigan • kindredtrails.com | |
| MAILING LISTS | ||
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• Roots-L NYS mailing lists
The Queens mailing list: NYQUEENS-L or NYQUEENS-D (digest mode) If you are new to NYC genealogy, consider joining NYC-ROOTS or NYBROOKLYN. Try digest mode to avoid heavy traffic. |
• A merged list of New York mailing lists | |
