RESEARCH FACILITIES                        






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<font color="purple"><u>BROOKLYN, New York TELEPHONE BOOKS</u></font>
1934 - 1970, 1972 - 1974 
(film)
The Brooklyn Public Library:
718-230-2100
Grand Army Plaza
<a href="http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/">Brooklyn Public Library</a>

New York State Library
Albany, New York
City Directories & Telephone Books  
on Microfilm & Microfiche

City Directories on microfilm or microfiche and 
selected Telephone Books on microfilm are filed in cabinets 
in the 7th floor Microforms Area. City Directories and 
Telephone Books do not circulate, but are available for use 
on-site.

BROOKLYN, New York: 1822 - 1826, 1829 - 1860/61 (fiche); 
There are two sets of microfilm: 
1796, 1802/03, 1811/12, 1822 - 1910, (1911 not 
published), 1912 - 1913, (1914 - 1932 not published), 
1933/34 
1861 - 1902 

<u>New YorkC Municipal Archives</u></font>
31 Chambers St.
Brooklyn,New York.USA 
have these Directories also.
These directories are a wonderfully surprising 
place to find out info on your ancestors.They tell 
name/address/and occupation.They also have a "yellow 
pages" type directory,for listing by subject.
Ex:Liquor Dealers/Basket Makers/Flour Merchants etc.

NOTE:For those who have not used the city directory 
microfiche, please remember the dates when various 
municipalities joined Brooklyn as a political jurisdiction. 
Check the microfiche for directories under the 
neighborhood's name, in the years it was an independent municipality. 

<font color="purple"><u>Brooklyn Public Library/Business Library</u></font>: 
280 Cadman Plaza West
Brooklyn, New York, 
11201
718-722-3333

Newspapers  
(including the Brooklyn Daily Eagle,1841-1963), 
telephone directories, 
city directories,
passenger ship information

<font color="purple"><u>Brooklyn Public Library/Central Library</u></font>:
Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, New York
11238
(718) 230-2762
Local histories, town records, city directories, 
telephone directories, newspapers 
(including the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1841-1955), 
maps, newspaper clippings, photographs.

<font color="purple"><u>Buildings Department/ Brooklyn</u></font>: 
Municipal Building
210 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn, New York, 
11201
(718)802-3675

<font color="purple"><u>City Clerk’s Office Brooklyn</u></font>
Marriage License Bureau: 
(marriage records from 1908)
Municipal Building
210 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn, New York
11201
(718) 802-3581

<font color="purple"><u>City Register’s Office/ Brooklyn</u></font>: 
State Supreme Court
Municipal Building
210 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn, New York
11201
(718) 802-3590 
Property records,deeds, mortgages, maps:1689 to the present

<font color="purple"><u>County Clerk’s Office/ Brooklyn</u></font>: 
State Supreme Court
360 Adams Street 
Brooklyn, New York
11201
(718) 643-5790
Incompetency records (718)643-5894 
(Naturalizations and all other records) 
State census records:
Kings County (1855, 1865, 1875, 1892, 1905, 1915, 1925)
Federal census records, Kings County (1850-80)
Naturalizations and Declarations of Intentions
State Supreme Court, 1856-1924, and other records

<font color="purple"><u>Department of Health</u></font>
Bureau of Vital Records New York City:
125 Worth Street
New York, New York, 10013
(212) 566-8193 or 8194
birth records from (1898- present)
death records from (1930-present)for the five boroughs of New YorkC

<font color="purple"><u>Family History Center (LDS)</u></font>: 
125 Columbus Ave
New York, New York
10023
(212) 873 1690

<font color="purple"><u>Landmarks Preservation Commission</u></font>: 
100 Old Slip
New York, New York, 10005
(212) 487-6800

<font color="purple"><u>Municipal Archives/ New York City</u></font>: 
31 Chambers Street
New York, New York
10007
(212) 788-8577
Birth records (pre-1910), 
death records (pre-1949), 
marriage records (pre-1938)
for New YorkC and vital records (pre-1898) for those areas
joining New YorkC in 1898

<font color="purple"><u>Brooklyn Dodger Hall of Fame</u></font>: 
(516)-826-6266

<font color="purple"><u>Borough President’s Office</u></font>: 
(718) 802-3700
National Archives/ New York Branch: 
201 Varick Street
New York,New York
10014
(212) 337-1300
All extant Federal census records, naturalization records, 
immigrant and passenger arrivals, and other records

<font color="purple"><u>New York Genealogical and Biographical Society</u></font>: 
122 E.58th Street
New York, New York 
10022
(212) 755-8532
Genealogies, local histories, vital records, census
records, city directories, heraldic books,specializing in New York 
and the Northeast Manuscripts and microforms available only to members

What they have..Indexes;
<a href="http://www.New Yorkgbs.org/info/articles/indexes_vital_records.html">http://www.New Yorkgbs.org/info/articles/indexes_vital_records.html</a>

<font color="purple"><u>New York Historical Society</u></font>: 
170 Central Park West
New York, New York
10024
(212) 873-3400
Local histories, maps newspapers, and manuscripts 
for New York State and the surrounding states.

<font color="purple"><u>New York Public Library</u></font>
Local History and Genealogy Division: 
42nd Street and Fifth Ave
New York, New York
10018
(212) 930-0828
Genealogies, local histories, heraldic books, census record 
(federal and state, check for availability) city directories, 
telephone directories,vital records
New YorkC Health Dept. Indexes, passenger records,and photographs

<font color="purple"><u>Queens Borough Public Library</u></font>
Long Island Division:
89-11 Merrick Blvd
Jamaica, New York
11432
(718) 990-0770
Local histories, genealogies, vital records,town records, 
property records, passenger records,census records, 
city directories, telephone directories, 
Newspapers: Brooklyn Daily Eagle,1841-1955,Herald Tribune morgue
and a huge Queens selection.
Maps, and photographs for the four counties of Long Island

<font color="purple"><u>Queens College/ Historical Documents Collection</u></font>: 
Queen College
History Dept
Powdermaker Hall
Flushing, New York
11367
(718) 520-7910 or 7366 
(History Dept.) Original New YorkC documents dating from the 
17th thru 19th centuries. Included are court records, property
records, tax assessments, coroner’s office records,
town records, Revolutionary War pension petitions, and
colonial and national newspapers 
(Access restricted/contact HDC for information)

<font color="purple"><u>Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture</u></font>
New York Public Library
515 Lenox Ave
New York, New York
10037
(212) 491-2200
Black history material, Federal census records, 1790-1880 (all states) 
1900 (some states,including New York) 
1910 (some states) Soundex, 1880, 1900 (all states) 
May be viewed at New YorkPL/ 42nd street by request

<font color="purple"><u>Surrogate’s Court/ Brooklyn</u></font>: 
Supreme Court Building
2 Johnson Street
Brooklyn, New York
11201
(718) 643-8016
Probate, administration, guardianship, and adoption
records, (1785 to the present)

<font color="purple"><u>Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Archives</u></font>: 
555 W.57th Street
Suite 1100
New York, New York
10019
(212)246-6080

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