Links and Resources

New York City

CEMETERIES
www.green-wood.com - online searchable- a well indexed Brooklyn cemetery
Cemeteries
www.stmichaelscemetery.com - Episcopal cemetery in Astoria Queens – ca.1860’s
www.thewoodlawncemetery.org - huge non-denominational Bronx cemetery- late 1800’s
Calvary Cemetery - huge old Catholic Cemetery Woodside Queens-need name and interment date
www.findagrave.com - online searchable
www.interment.net - online searchable

NEWSPAPERS
www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle - online searchable from ca.1850-1907
www.bronxhistoricalsociety.org - ‘Home News’ 1907-1948. Must know specific dates.

LIBRARIES
www.godfrey.org - many databases online – subscription required for some- Searchable NY Times.
www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy - Ft Wayne, IN library- large genealogy holdings.
www.nypl.org/research/chss/lhg/research.html - NY Pub Lib.5th Ave- Milstein -Us History/Genealogy

SOCIETIES
www.Italiangen.org - online searchable births/deaths/marriages NYC- 1900 +/-
www.CFSNA.org - Clan Ferguson Society
www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org - NY Genealogical & Biographical Society-library- 59 th St.

GOVERNMENT
www.nyc.gov - land records-more recent dept health records
www.archives.nysed.gov - research room- NY resident military records-basic- Civil War thru WWI
www.ellisisland.org - online searchable immigrant arrivals 1892-1924
www.archives.gov - NARA records –fed census / immigration records –Varick St NYC
New York City Municipal Archives- Worth St- City directories-old
birth/death/marriage-Census 1855

MISC
www.familytreedna.com - male saliva DNA testing- many family projects underway including Ferguson
www.rootsweb.com - Bronx and Queens message boards –among many others
www.familysearch.org - social security death index 1960’s to present

Scotland

www.electricscotland.com
www.rampantscotland.com
www.origins.net - IGI searches (Scotsorigins)
www.anesfhs.force9.co.uk - Aberdeen & Northeast Scotland Family History Society
www.gro.Scotland.gov.uk - Old Parish Records
www.scotsgenealogy.com - Edinburgh based Scotland Genealogy Society