New York Town Guides

The material in this section was taken from New York State Towns, Villages, and Cities: A Guide to Genealogical Sources by Gordon L. Remington, published by NEHGS in 2002.  It is intended to help locate published and transcribed records for the state's nearly 1700 organized municipalities.

 The tables give basic information on each of New York's towns, villages, and cities: the county in which it is located, the date of organization or incorporation, and whether or not a dedicated history of that place has been published. It then provides information on transcribed church and cemetery records and the collections or repositories in which they are found. Key letters to sources, repeated at the bottom of each page, allow you to locate these sources in a relatively straightforward manner.