Free
Digital Texts Online
Many Books Useful to the
Genealogist
Have you ever coveted the
precious volumes of E. B. O'Callaghan's The
Documentary History of the State of New-York, or
perhaps David Thomas Valentine's History of the City
of New-York for your own personal library? Well,
they are already yours without the expense of purchasing
them.
Thousands of digitized
books, journals and monographs are online waiting for you
to browse. These texts are open to the general
public free of charge, and are well worth looking at.
Perhaps you might put off your
subscription to GenealogyLibrary.com or Ancestry.com on
account of the wealth of information available free in
these resources.
Digital Texts Available
Online
These are only examples.
See the links to the complete collections at the bottom
of this page.
Various Genealogies
Schermerhorn
Richard Schermerhorn Jr., Schermerhorn
Genealogy and Family Chronicles,
New York: Tobias A. Wright, Publisher, 1914.
Roll
Roll, Martha and Kennedy, Thelma Lynn, Genealogy of the New Jersey Rolls, Manuscript, 1984. 595 pp.
Second digital edition, updated by Hansel Haycox, 1999.
911 pp.
Various City Histories
Schenectady, Schenectady, NY
Pearson, Jonathan, Contributions
to the Genealogies of the Descendants of the First
Settlers of the Patent and City of Schenectady, from 1662
to 1800, (1873).
Brooklyn, NY
Stiles, Henry Reed, A History of the City of Brooklyn.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Pub. by subscription, 1867-70. 3 v.
fronts., illus., plates, ports., plans. 25 cm.
Harlem, NY
Riker, James, Harlem
(City of New York) : its origin and early annals,
prefaced by home scenes in the fatherlands, or, notices
of its founders before emigration ; also, sketches of
numerous families, and the recovered history of the land-titles
New York, 1881.
New York, NY
Valentine, David Thomas, History
of the City of New-York,
New York: G. P. Putnam & Company, 1853. vi, 404 p.,
front., plates, plans, maps. 22 cm.
Various County Histories
Kings, NY
Teunis G. Bergen, Register
in Alphabetical Order, of the Early Settlers of Kings
County, Long Island, N. Y. : from its First Settlement by
Europeans to 1700 : with contributions
to their biographies and genealogies, compiled from
various sources, New York City: S. W. Green's Son
Publication, 1881 City: New York. 454 page images.
Hudson, NJ
Winfield, Charles Hardenburg, History
of the County of Hudson, New Jersey, From its Earliest
Settlement to the Present Time,
New York: Kennard & Hay, 1874. vii, 568 p. front.,
illus., plates, ports. 24 cm.
Schenectady, NY
Yates, Austin A., Schenectady
County, New York: Its History to the Close of the
Nineteenth Century, New
York History Company, 1902.
Various State Histories
New York
O'Callaghan, E. B., The Documentary History of the
State of New-York, Albany : Weed, Parsons & Co.,
Public Printers, 1850-51. 4 v. ill., maps, ports., 30 cm.
Digital Texts at Cornell
University
Cornell University Library Digital
Collections
Cornell Digital Library Collections are online, and
include hundreds of digital texts including the following.
The
Making of America Collection
This digital library of primary sources in American
social history from the antebellum period through
reconstruction is located at Cornell University.
The
New York State Historical Literature Collection
This site contains scanned copies of the pages
of hundreds of historical texts useful to the genealogist.
A few examples of the books in this
collection are:
Abstracts
of wills on file in the Surrogate's Office, City of New
York, Vols. I-VII.
Early Long Island wills of Suffolk
county, 1691-1703, by William Smith Pelletreau.
Extract from Wagenaar's "Beschryving
van Amsterdam", relating to the colony of New
Amstel, on the Deleware, by Jan Wagenaar.
Genealogical record, Saint Nicholas
society of the city of New York, Vols. I-III.
Digital Texts at The
University of Michigan
The
Making of America Collection
This digital library of primary sources in American
social history from the antebellum period through
reconstruction is located at the
University of Michigan. They are not the same texts
available in the Cornell University collections.
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