Do you have ancestors from the state of New York? Search through these transcription images to discover birth, marriage, and death records, including full names, dates, and the churches of record.
Do you have ancestors from the state of New York? Search through these transcription images to discover birth, marriage, and death records, including full names, dates, and the churches of record.
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society transcribed and published religious records of baptisms, marriages, and deaths from dozens of New York State churches of various denominations. The records— many of which were transcribed by Royden Woodward Vosburgh (1875-1931)—are now digitized.
These records include images of the transcripts of the original baptism, marriage, and death registers kept by various New York churches. Depending on the type of record you are looking at, you can discover the following information:
Full names
Dates of baptisms, marriages, or deaths
Parents’ and witnesses’ names
Church name and denomination
Lists of church members
Located in the Useful Links & Resources section is a searchable version of these records.
The collection includes record abstracts from the following churches:
Canal Street Presbyterian Church, New York City
Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, New York City
Clove Dutch Reformed Church
Congregational Church and Society of New Canaan
Dutch Reformed Church of Port Richmond; United Brethren Congregation (Moravian) of Staten Island; St. Andrew's Church of Richmond
Episcopal Diocese of New York
First Baptist Church of Springfield
First Lutheran Church of Albany
First Presbyterian Church of Albany
First Presbyterian Church of Canaan
First Presbyterian Church of Lansingburgh
First Presbyterian Church of Oswego
First Presbyterian Church of Stamford
First Presbyterian Church of West Galway
First Presbyterian Church of Whitesboro
First Reformed Dutch Church at Glen
First Reformed Dutch Church of Coxsackie
Madison Avenue Reformed Church, New York City
Paris Religious Society
Park Presbyterian Church of Troy
Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown
Presbyterian Church, Newtown (now Elmhurst)
Presbyterian Congregation of Harpersfield
Protestant Presbyterian Congregation of Cambridge
Protestant Reformed Dutch Church of Leeds
Reformed Church in the Village of Gilboa; Reformed Dutch Church in Blenheim
Reformed Dutch Church
Reformed Dutch Church at Greenwich, New York City
Reformed Dutch Church in Oak Hill
Reformed Dutch Church of Beaver Dam
Reformed Dutch Church of Kakiat
Reformed Dutch Church of Kinderhook
Reformed Dutch Church of Kiskatom
Reformed Dutch Church of Stone Arabia
Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in Nassau
Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Florida
Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Herkimer
Round Top Lutheran Church of Pine Plains
Scipio Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
Second Street Presbyterian Church of Troy
Society of Clinton (a Congregational Church)
South Reformed Dutch Church in Garden Street, New York City
St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church at Manorton
St. John's Church of Tuckahoe
St. John's Episcopal Church of Johnstown
St. Mark's Church in the Bowery
St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Berne
St. Peter's Church of Auburn
United Presbyterian Church at West Charlton
United Presbyterian Church of Florida