I have always thought it a shame that I don't have any recent New York City ancestors. Here and there I find a relative lived there but otherwise I don't know much about that iconic American city. To straighten out what areas comprise New York City I looked up what Wikipedia had:
New York City encompasses five different county-level administrative divisions called boroughs: Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island. Each of the boroughs is coextensive with a respective county, the primary administrative subdivision within New York State. The Bronx and Queens are concurrent with the counties of the same name, while Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Staten Island correspond to New York, Kings, and Richmond Counties respectively.
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| Screen capture of the boroughs of New York. By Vector adopted by User:NafsadhOriginal:Julius Schorzman, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36401671 |
Michael L. Strauss presented "New York City Genealogical Research: Navigating Through The Five Boroughs" on November 8, 2017:
Many persons can trace their origins to the Empire State. New York City being one of the largest urban center offers many genealogical resources. Between the American Revolution and the Civil War-several key urban cities along the eastern seaboard populations increased strikingly. In 1790 New York’s population was about 33,000 persons, and by 1860 more than 1 million persons lived in the metropolitan area. This lecture offer a unique prospective into the various genealogical sources and historical records that are New York City.Free to non-subscribers through November 15, 2017.
Runs 1 hour 41 minutes.
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