Kings
County Seat - Brooklyn
NYS Censuses:
1855 - LDS film - #1930196+
1865 - LDS film - #1930202+
1875 - LDS film - #1930212+
1892 - LDS film - #1930212+
1905 - LDS film - #1930245+
1915 - LDS film - #525703+
1925 - LDS film - #526405+
Index to NARA naturalization records, 1792-1906, LDS film #1419807 and many
more. These are a soundex to federal, state and local courts
located in New York, NY including:
--City Court of Brooklyn, 1836-94
--Kings County Court, 1806-1906
--New York City Marine Court, 1806-49
--New York County Common Pleas Court, 1792-1895
--New York County Superior Court, 1828-95
--New York City and County Supreme Court, 1868-1906
--Queens County Court, 1799-1906
--Queens County Surrogate Court, 1888-98
--Richmond County Court, 1869-1906
--US Circuit Court, New York Southern District, 1846-76
--US District Court, New York Eastern District (Kings, Queens, Nassau, & Suffolk
counties), 1865-1906
--US District Court, New York Southern District (New York, Bronx, Dutchess,
Orange, Putnam, Richmond, Rockland, Sullivan & Westchester counties) 1824-1906
The soundex code must be used to search this index. Not all the records
that are indexed have been filmed.
US Circuit Court, New York Southern District
--Declarations of intention, 1845-1911, LDS film #1468586 and others Alphabetical
index to petitions, 1846-76, 1910-11, LDS film #1522858 This court sat at New
York, New York County.
US District Court, New York Eastern District
--Alphabetical index to petitions, 1865-1957, LDS film # 1561847 and others
Declarations of intention, 1865-1929, LDS film # 1728538 and others This court
sat at Brooklyn, Kings County.
US District Court, New York Southern District
--Alphabetical index to petitions, 1824-1941, LDS film # 1522691 and others
Alphabetical index to declarations of intention, 1917-50, LDS film #1487354 and
others
--Declarations of intention, 1924-5, LDS film #1769876 and others Naturalizations,
1824-82, LDS film # 1477178 and others
US District Court, New York Southern District
--Minutes and roll of attorneys, 1789-1841, LDS film #1402794 and others.
This includes aliens' oaths of intention to become US citizens.
The original Brooklyn records are at the Kings County Courthouse in Brooklyn and
the National Archives Regional Branch in New York City.
If you are looking for Brooklyn naturalizations from 1907 to 1924 they are on
line thanks to the Jewish Genealogy Society and the Italian and German
Genealogical groups at:
http://www.jgsny.org/kingsintro1.htm
You can also find the Southern district index 1906-1959 on line at the Italian
Genealogical Groups website at:
http://www.italiangen.org/southersearch.stm |
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New York
County Seat - Manhattan
NYS Censuses:
1855 - LDS film - #1018651+
1905 - LDS film - #1428423+
1915 - LDS film - #523274+
1925 - LDS film - #527049+
--Abstracts of will probated in the Common Pleas Couty (also known as Mayor's
Court), 1817-1892; Supreme Court of Judicature, 1821-1829, 1847- 1870, all of
New York County; film # 860314
--Abstracts of wills for New York County, New York, from 1808-1814; film #
860314
--Final statements of debits or credits which are not found in the decrees on
Accounting of deceased persons. The accounts are arranged in alphabetical
bundles, but they are not in strict alphabetical order; films start with #
911271+
--Administration bonds, 1753-1866, films start with #907917+
--Decrees on accounting, 1828-1865; indexes, 1828-1907
-Index to decrees A-N 1830-1907, film #872176
-Index to decrees O-Z 1830-1907, film #872177
-Decrees on accounting 1828-1835 (bound with own index), film #907916
-Decrees in bundles, index and bundle films start with #872177+
--Estate orders, 1840-1865, films by year, start with # 900421+
--Executors renunciations, 1792-1890, index, 1830-1912, films start with
#911785+
--Inventories, 1862-1865, contains inventories of deceased persons possessions.
The material is arranged semi-chronologically, but the dates given are only an
approximation since many individual papers are out of proper chronological
order, films start with #907919+
--Letters and petitions of administration, 1798-1862, films start with # 913432+
--Letters of administration, 1768-1866; index, 1743-1910, films start with #
872170+
--Letters of collection 1858-1865, film #912839
--Letters testamentary, 1793-1806, film # 17417
--Letters testamentary, 1830-1866, films start with #892774+
--Miscellaneous orders, 1803-1870, films start with # 909250+
--Miscellaneous probate records, 1800-1869, films start with # 909302
--Orders admitting wills, v. 2 1851-1853, film #912840
--Orders admitting wills v. 3 1853-1855 Orders admitting wills v. 4 1855-1857
Orders admitting wills v. 5 1857-1859 Orders admitting wills v. 6 1859-1860,
film #912841
--Orders admitting wills v. 7 1860-1862 Orders admitting wills v. 9 1862-1864
Orders admitting wills v. 10 1864-1866, film #907910
--Orders granting and denying petitions, 1828-1865; index, 1830-1882, films
start with #912807+
--Petitions and accounts, 1803-1888, films by surname start with #913516+
--Petitions for letters of administrations, 1830-1876, film arranged by year,
start with film #892796+
--Probate proceedings, 1830-1865, are arranged by month of final filing. They
are not in alphabetical order. They are not in numeral order. Only the date can
be found by looking for decendent's surname in the index to wills, films start
with #895749+
--Proceedings in the sale of real estate, 1800-1872, index, 1800-1872
-Proceedings in the sale of real estate, 1800-1872, index, 1800-1872
-Index to the proceedings in the sale of real estate, 1800-1872, film
#912835
-Proceedings in the sale of real estate, v. 1-3 1800-1833, film #912836
-Proceedings in the sale of real estate, v. 4-5 1834-1856, film #912837
-Proceedings in the sale of real estate, v. 6 1856-1872, film #912838
--Proceedings to probate wills of real estate, 1830-1867, films start with
#900915+
--Real estate proceedings, 1800-1880, films start with #906856+
--Record of dower, 1831-1856 (Dower is the right of a widow to a part of her
husbands land and property even though it may have been inherited by another),
film #912832
--Record of wills, 1665-1916; index to wills, 1662-1923 (New York County), films
start with #872164+
--Selected wills from the New York County Surrogate's records, film #17123
--Special collection bonds, 1849-1870, film #913527
--Wills and administrations, 1680-1804, films start with #497592+
--Wills, 1787-1822, original records at the Office of the Clerk of the Court of
Appeals for the State of New York in Albany, film #17416
--A list of wills, receipts for wills, Administration bonds, inventories
relative to the Southern district of the State of New York : heretofore filed in
the Probate office of the said State, delivered by the Judge of Probate thereof
to the Surrogate of the City and County of New York in pursuance of an act of
the Legislature passed the thirtieth day of March, 1799, film #17411
--Index of wills for New York County (New York City), from 1662-1850, film
#17827
--Index to letters of administration of New York County, from 1743-1875, film
#1425588
--Index to New York City inventories of estates, 1783-1834, film #514685
--Index to wills for New York County, New York, from 1851-1875, film #860313
--Municipal archive indexes, 1830-1929, film #899357
--Rejected wills index 1807-1926, film #912806
Available records
for Manhattan County can be found at the Manhattan ALHN website,
Manhattan Naturalization
(See Kings County for Index ot Naturalizations
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Queens
County Seat - Jamaica
NYS Censuses:
1892 - LDS film - #1976730+
1915 - LDS film - #523327+
1925 - LDS film - #529161+
--Abstracts of early wills of Queens County, New York : recorded in Libers A and
C of deeds now in the Registers Office at Jamaica, New York, 1683-1744; film
#17872
--Abstracts of wills for Queens County, New York, 1787-1850; film #860322
--Accounts of executors and administrators, 1835-1865, film #930546
--Probate records, Accounts, 1800-1888
-Index to accounts - A-O 1787-1899 - Film #933005
-Index to accounts - P-Z 1787-1899 - Film #933006
--Administration bonds, 1787-1791; film #488731
--Letters of administration, 1787-1799; film #481397
--Early wills of Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York, Sessions book no.1,
1669-1687 : includes early wills at Riverhead, Suffolk Co., N.Y.,
Lester Will book and abstracts of Queens County wills, Liber A of Deeds,
Jamaica, L.I., New York; film # 17117
--Letters of administration, 1792-1916; index to letters of administration,
1791-1900; film #930543+
--New York Queens County card index to probate records, 1900-1987; film #1765725+
--Personal wills, Queens County; film #17877
--Queens County, New York, Surrogate records at Jamaica, N.Y., 1787-1835; film
#17871
--Records in the Office of the County Clerk at Jamaica, Long Island, New York,
1680-1781 : Wills and administrations, guardians, and inventories; film #17715
--Records of dower, 1814-1865; film #941406
--Wills and probate proceedings, 1787-1881
-Index to probate proceedings and administrations - A-G 1787- 1899; film #933001
-Index to probate proceedings and administrations - H-R 1787-1899; film #933002
-Index to probate proceedings and administrations - R-Z 1787-1899; film #933003
-Real estate wills; film's numbers start at: 930528+
--Wills of personal estate, 1835-1898, Queens County
-Vol. 1-3, 1835-1875; film #1787648
-Vol. 4-6, 1875-1898; film #1787796
--Wills of real estate, 1864-1916 ; index, 1787-1922; index film #17869; wills'
film's numbers start with # 17869+
--Wills of Real Estate, Queens County; film #17872
--Wills of real estate, Queens County
-Liber 1-6, 1834-1855; film #17875
-Liber 7-9, 1853-1862, film #17877
--Card index to letters of administration, 1832-1899; film #1765841
--Index [to] Wills of Real Estate, Queens County, New York : Libers A-G,
1787-1835; film #17872
--An index of administrations of Queens County, New York, 1787-1908; film #17875
Queens County Courts
--Declarations of intention, 1824-1906, LDS film #1288956 and others
--Final applications, 1895-1906, LDS film # 1288956
--Naturalization certificates, 1794-1906, LDS film #1288955 and others
--Naturalization papers, 1888-98, LDS film #0945980
--Index to naturalization, 1906-41, LDS film #1818673 and others
Queens County Supreme Court
--Declarations of intention, 1906-26, LDS film #1822998 and others
The original records of both courts are at the
Queens County General Courthouse in Jamaica. Most of these are indexed in
the filmed NARA soundex, see below.)
(See Kings County for Index ot Naturalizations
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Richmond (Staten Island)
County Seat - St. George
NYS Censuses:
1855 - LDS film #946687
1865 - LDS film #946689
1875 - LDS film #946691
1915 - LDS film #523336, 523337
1925 - LDS film #532409
Richmond County Court
--Naturalization papers, including petitions, declarations of intention, oaths of
allegiance, affidavits of petitions and witnesses, applications for citizenship,
other papers 1820-1906, LDS film # 1310575 and others (This includes some
records of the supreme court and the circuit court.)
--Petitions and records, 1907-24, LDS film #0946529 and others
--Naturalization records, 1820-1906, LDS film #0945136 and others
Richmond County Supreme Court
--Military petitions, 1918-24, LDS film #0946528
The original records of both courts are at the
Richmond County Courthouse in Staten Island. Most are index in the filmed
NARA soundex, see below.
(See Kings County for Index ot Naturalizations
records, 1792-1906 plus Southern District records.) |
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