With St. Patrick’s Day coming up, don’t forget that New York State has three active Irish genealogy societies. The Buffalo Irish Genealogy Society was founded in 1997. Organization goals include: to create an Irish family database center in Buffalo, in conjunction with the Buffalo Irish
The Clifton Park-Halfmoon Public Library and the New York State Archives will present an in-person Genealogy Day on Saturday, March 8. 10-11 am – “How to Get Started Building Your Family Tree” – Clifton Park Town Historian John Scherer 11 am-12 pm – “Resources at
Dunkirk Public Library (Chautauqua County) will be offering three genealogy classes as part of its Tech-Talk Monday classes. All classes take place in person in the computing center. Thursday, Feb. 13 – Ancestry Library Edition – 1 to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25 – Exploring
The not-for-profit organization Preservation Long Island has been participating in a project called Digital Long Island, organized by the East Hampton Library. More than 500 items from Preservation Long Island‘s manuscript collection have now been digitized and are available online. This collection includes 17th-, 18th-,
The New York City Municipal Archives will present a free webinar, “Digitizing the 1890 Police Census” on Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 1 p.m. In 1890, questioning the accuracy of the city’s population count reported by the federal government, New York City officials launched an independent
