New Web Site: www.NewYorkAncestors.org

The following announcement was written by the New England Historic Genealogical Society:

NEHGS LAUNCHES NEW WEB PORTAL HIGHLIGHTING NEW YORK RESEARCH TOOLS

NewYorkAncestors.org Features a Wealth of New York State Resources

Boston, MA – May 15, 2008 – New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston today announced the launch of a new Web portal highlighting the wide variety of New York resources available on their award-winning Website, NewEnglandAncestors.org. This new portal, located at www.NewYorkAncestors.org, will direct members to a wide range of databases, publications, and articles focusing on New York state research.

“We are thrilled to feature our New York resources with this new portal,” said D. Brenton Simons, NEHGS President and CEO. “We’ve seen a tremendous increase in New York research within our membership in recent years. Although our organization has long been associated with New England research, we want people to know that we offer so much more. When we look at the region genealogically speaking, the two areas of New England and New York are very closely connected.”

Resources and research tools will be available to all NEHGS members as part of their membership, and include a wide range of New York databases such as vital records, probate records, census, tax, and voter lists, cemetery records, church records, court records, and published genealogies and biographies. NEHGS also has available articles such as Marian Henry’s “The Erie Canal: ‘Mother of Cities’” and “New York State Cemeteries: A Finding Aid.” Visitors can also find for sale a variety of publications helpful to the New York researcher.

www.NewYorkAncestors.org is part of the growing NEHGS family of web portals, including www.NewEnglandAncestors.org, www.GreatMigration.org, and www.NotableKin.org.

Also, NEHGS will soon be making available for the first time, electronic access to the scholarly quarterly publication, “New Netherland Connections,” published by Dorothy Koenig.

About NEHGS
Founded in 1845, New England Historic Genealogical Society is the country's oldest and largest non-profit genealogical organization. Located in Boston, NEHGS collects, preserves, and interprets materials that help make accessible the histories of families in America. The NEHGS research library, one of the most respected genealogical libraries in the field, is home to millions books, journals, manuscripts, photographs, microfilms, documents, records, and artifacts that date back more than four centuries. The award-winning web site www.NewEnglandAncestors.org offers access to more than 110 million names in 2,400 searchable databases. NEHGS has more than 23,000 members nationally. NEHGS staff includes some of the leading expert genealogists in the country, specializing in early American, Irish, English, Italian, Scottish, Atlantic and French Canadian, and Jewish genealogy.

Comments

[Donna]

Isn't it the New England Historic Gen. Soc that was taken over by the Board of Directors and was going to sell their building and everyone was worried about what would happen to their massive collections. Or have I got the wrong society. Please advise if anthing has happened on that situation? Thanks.

[Dick Eastman]

No. Different group. That is the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society that is selling their headquarters building in New York City and recently fired all their members.

The above announcement discusses a new web site created by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, a a 163-year-old society with headquarters in Boston, a different and unrelated organization.

- Dick Eastman

[L. Bailey]

Near as I can tell this new Web portal is just a re-mix and a way to narrow your searches at the NEHGS main website. The best one do is a very preliminary search on this site. After which one must still pay the price for membership in order to access any of the databases. At $75 for a simple research membership or $70/hour to hire a researcher to make a couple of copies, I believe it is too expensive for me. Even Ancestry provides an option for a less expensive "monthly" access fee.

[E Kuchta]

NEHGS research fee is a bargain. Incomparable access to New England records, early newspapers, and more for about $6.00 a month. Less than 2 gallons of gas.

[LarryN the LibraryN]

Or, you can check your local public library to see if they have access. I am the head of genealogy and local hisotry at my workplace, and newenglandancestors.org was one of the first commercial databases we subscribed to. Patrons love it. And they can use it for free (remote accessis not permitted, though). You have to come onsite to use it.

[MirtyAnne]

Well I won't be buying the subscription because every link I have tested today gives me page cannot be displayed. Not good when you are tryin to sell a service. Although I will say that New York has some of the best genealogy records around.

[adele hynes]

Dear Sir, I belong to NEGHS and am trying to use plug in. What is it and how do I get it to work? Was unable to see the whole page or to see the top or bottom of the page or the extreme right or left sides. Adele Hynes

[Becky G]

I'm a member of NEGHS and love it!! I have found lots of valuable information on their site. For me it definitely is worth $75. a year.