This is a list of free New York Genealogy Records at FamilySearch.

These records include birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, former slave records, freedmen records, pension records, military records and more. Included as well are general United States collections if they include or could reasonably include New York residents.

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New York Birth Records

• New York Births and Christenings, 1640-1962, index
• New York, Buffalo, St. Paul’s Epsicopal Church Records, 1812-1970, images
• New York, New York City Births, 1846-1909, index
• New York, New York City, Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church Records, 1862-1955, images
• New York, Yates County, Swann Vital Records Collection, 1723-2009, index & images
• United States Births and Christenings, 1867-1931, index
• United States Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940, index
• United States National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel Files, 1954-1970, index
• United States Public Records, 1970-2009, index

New York Marriage Records

• New York Marriages, 1686-1980, index
• New York, Buffalo, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Records, 1812-1970, images
• New York, Church and Civil Marriages, 1704-1995, index
• New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936, index & images
• New York, Frank S. Rowland Church Register, 1889-1917, images
• New York, New York City Marriage Licenses Index, 1950-1995, index
• New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940, index links to images
• New York, New York City, Church of the Transfiguration Records, 1847-1938, images
• New York, New York City, Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church Records, 1862-1955, images
• New York, Yates County, Swann Vital Records Collection, 1723-2009, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872, index & images
• United States Western States Marriage Index, index
• United States Marriages, 1733-1990, index

New York Death Records

• New  York Deaths and Burials, 1795-1952, index
• New York Probate Records, 1629-1971, images
• New York State Health Department, Genealogical Research Death Index, 1957-1963, index
• New York Bronx Probate Estate Files, 1914-1931, images
• New York, Buffalo, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Records, 1812-1970, images
• New York, Frank S. Rowland Church Register, 1889-1917, images
• New York, King’s County Estate Files, 1866-1923, index & images
• New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949, index
• New York, New York City, Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church Records, 1862-1955, images
• New York, Yates County, Swann Vital Records Collection, 1723-2009, index & images
• New York, Orange County Probate Records, 1787-1938, index & images
• New York, Queens County Probate Records, 1785-1950, index & images
• United States Deaths and Burials, 1867-1961, index
• United States Deceased Physician File (AMA), 1864-1968, images
• United States Social Security Death Index, index
• United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014, index & images
• United States Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940, index
• United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images
• United States, Panama Canal Zone, Index to the Gorgas Hospital Mortuary Registers, 1906-1991, index & images
• BillionGraves Index, index & links to images
• CurrentObituary Index, 2001-2014, index & links to images
• Find A Grave Index, index & links to images

New York Residence Records

• New York Naturalization Index, 1792-1906, index and images
• New York, County Naturalization Records, 1791-1980, index and images
• New York, Eastern District Naturalization Petitions, Index, 1865-1957, index links to images
• New York, Southern District Index to Petitions for Naturalization, 1824-1941, index links to images
• New York, Southern District Naturalization Index, 1917-1950, index & images
• New York, Southern District, US District Court Naturalization Records, 1824-1946, index & images
• New York, Western District, Naturalization Index, 1907-1966, index links to images
• New York State Census, 1855, index & images
• New York State Census, 1865, index & images
• New York State Census, 1875, index & images
• New York State Census, 1892, index & images
• New York State Census, 1905, index & images
• New York State Census, 1915, index links to images
• New York State Census, 1925, index links to images
• New York, New York City, Police Census, 1890, index
• United States Census 1790, index & images

• United States Census 1800, index & images
• United States Census 1810, index & images
• United States Census 1820, index & images
• United States Census 1830, index & images
• United States Census 1840, index & images
• United States Census 1850, index & images
• United States Census (Slave Schedule) 1850, index & images
• United States Census (Mortality Schedule) 1850, index & images
• United States Census 1860, index & images
• United States Census 1870, index & images
• United States Census 1880, index & images
• United States Census 1890, index & images
• United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890, index & images
• United States Census 1900, index & images
• United States Census 1910, index & images
• United States Census 1920, index & images
• United States Census 1930, index & images
• United States Census of Merchant Seamen, 1930, index
• United States Census 1940, index & images
• United States Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1800 – circa 1955, images
• United States Enumeration District Maps for the Twelfth through the Sixteenth US Censuses, 1900-1940, images
• United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index
• United States National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel Files, 1954-1970, index
• United States Public Records, 1970-2009, index
• United States Freedmen’s Branch Records, 1872-1878, images
• United States, War Relocation Authority Centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946, index & images

New York Daily Life Records

Compiled Genealogies

• Family Group Records Collection, Archives Section, 1942-1969, images
• United States National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel Files, 1954-1970, index

Court Records

• United States Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers, 1918, index & links to images
• United States Internal Revenue Assessment Lists, 1862-1874, images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bank Records, 1865-1874, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Freedmen’s Court Records, 1865-1872, index & images

Employment Records

• United States Panama Canal Zone, Employment Records and Sailing Lists, 1905-1937, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Hospital and Medical Records, 1865-1872, index & images

Ethnic Records

African American Records

• United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records, 1865-1872, index & links to images
• United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872, index & images

• United States Freedmen’s Bureau Ration Records, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States Freedmen’s Bureau Claim Records, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States Freedmen’s Bureau Labor Contracts, Indenture & Apprenticeship Records, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States Freedmen’s Bureau Records of Persons and Articles Hired, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States Freedmen’s Branch Records, 1872-1878 
• United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen’s Complaints, 1865-1872, index & images

Japanese American Records

• United States, War Relocation Authority Centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946

Immigration Records

• New York Book Indexes to Passenger Lists, 1906-1942, index & images
• New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924, index & images
• New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1891, index & images
• New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957, index & images
• New  York, New York, Index to Passenger Lists, 1820-1846, index & images
• New York, New York, Index to Vessels, 1897-1956, images
• New York, New York, Soundex to Passenger & Crew Lists, 1887-1921, index & images
• New York, Northern Arrival Manifests, 1902-1956, index & images
• New York, Ogdensburg Passenger & Crew Lists, 1948-1972, index & images
• New York, Rouses Point and Waddington Crew Lists, 1954-1956, index & images
• United State Famine Irish Passenger Index, 1846-1851, index

Prisons/Prisoners Records

• United States, War Relocation Authority Centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946, index & images

New York Military Records

New York Records of the State National Guard, 1906-1954

War of 1812

• United States War of 1812 Index to Pension Application Files, 1812-1910, index & images
• United States War of 1812 Index to Service Records, 1812-1815, index & images

Mexican-American War

• United States Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926, index & images

US Civil War

• New York, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865, index links to images
• New York, New York, Index to Alien Crewmen Who Were Discharged or Who Deserted, 1917-1957, index & images
• United States Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865,  index & links to images
• United States Civil War Service Records of Union Colored Troops, 1863-1865,  index & links to images
• United States Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1864-1866,  index & links to images
• United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865, index
• United States Civil War Unfiled Papers of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865,  index & links to images
• United States Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files, 1861-1934,  index & links to images
• United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917,  index & links to images
• United States Confederate Navy and Marine Service Records, 1861-1865, images
• United States Confederate Officers Card Index, 1861-1865, images
• United States Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981, index
• United States Casualties of the Vietnam War, 1956-1998, index
• United States Civil War Confederate Applications for Pardons, 1865-1867, index & links to images
• United States Civil War Confederate Papers of Citizens or Businesses, 1861-1865, index & links to images
• United States Civil War Records of Confederate Nonregiment Soldiers, 1861-1865,  index & links to images
• United States Freedmen’s Branch Records, 1872-1878, images
• United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903, index & images
• United States Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865, images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Hospital and Medical Records, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Assistant Commissioner, 1865-1872, images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Commissioner, 1865-1872, images

Indian Wars

• United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images

Spanish-American War

• United States Index to Service Records, War with Spain, 1898, index & images

World War I

• United States, YMCA World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919, index & images
• United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, index & images
• United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 1917-1919, index

World War II

• United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946, index
• United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, index & images
• United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 images
• United States World War II Prisoners of War of the Japanese, 1941-1945, index
• United States, World War II Prisoners of War, 1941-1945, index

Korean War

• United States, American Prisoners of War During the Korean War, 1950-1953, index
• United States Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981, index
• United States Korean War Battle Deaths, 1950-1957, index
• United States Korean War Dead and Army Wounded, 1950-1953, index
• United States Korean War Repatriated Prisoners of War, 1950-1954, index

Vietnam War

• United States Casualties of the Vietnam War, 1956-1998, index
• United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890, index & images
• United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images
• United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images
• United States Index to General Correspondence of the Pension Office, 1889-1904, index & images
• United States Military Personnel who Died During the Vietnam War, 1956-2003, index

Veterans, Enlistments, Pensions

• United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938, index & images
• United States Naval Enlistment Rendezvous, 1855-1891, index & images
• United States Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926, index & images
• United States Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914, index & images
• United States Remarried Widows Index to Pension Applications, 1887-1942, index & images
• United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Individual Civilians, 1861-1866, images
• United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Two or More Civilians, 1861-1866, images
• United States Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907-1933, images
• United States, Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations,1768-1921, index & images
• United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940, index
• United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images
• United States Muster Rolls of the Marine Corps, 1798-1937, index & images

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