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Guides to Historical Records

New York State Archives and Statewide Guides

County Guides
In 1978, the New York Historical Resources Center at Cornell University initiated the Historical Documents Inventory (HDI) to survey the holdings of New York’s publicly accessible archives and manuscript repositories. The survey results were carefully edited and compiled into 62 county level guides. The guides contain contact information and summary collection descriptions for more than 1200 repositories located throughout the State. You can order paper copies of the guides or search the HDI records through Excelsior, the on-line catalog of the New York State Archives. Holdings for Nassau County and new and updated records are only available on-line.