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Research Tips

Research Tips introduce some of the most informative collections in the New York State Archives and guides visitors through their use. Each tip includes a brief description of records pertaining to a particular topic and clear and concise instructions on how to use the records to get information.

Business and Labor

  1. Civil Service Employee Records

Environment and Landscape

  1. CSCIC Aerial Photos
  2. Fairchild Aerial Surveys
  3. Highway Corridor Maps
  4. Mix's Catalog

Film Scripts

  1. Film Scripts

Genealogy

  1. Alien Depositions
  2. Almshouse and Poorhouse Census
  3. Civil Service Employee Records
  4. Civil War Service Abstracts
  5. Deeds
  6. Executive Clemency Records
  7. GAR Records
  8. Land Patents
  9. Marriage Bonds
  10. Military Patents
  11. Mix's Catalog
  12. Prison Inmate Records
  13. Sing Sing Admission Registers
  14. Tax Assessment Rolls
  15. Vital Records Index
  16. War of 1812 Claims
  17. War Service Records and Searches
  18. World War I Service Records

Legal and Corrections

  1. Alien Depositions
  2. Campaign Financial Disclosures
  3. Deeds
  4. Executive Clemency Records
  5. Land Patents
  6. Military Patents
  7. Marriage Bonds
  8. Prison Inmate Records
  9. Sing Sing Admission Registers

Military

  1. Civil War Service Abstracts
  2. GAR Records
  3. Military Patents
  4. Town Clerks' Civil War Registers
  5. War of 1812 Claims
  6. War Service Records and Searches
  7. World War I Service Records

People, Groups, and Cultures

  1. Alien Depositions

Transportation

  1. Fairchild Aerial Surveys
  2. Highway Corridor Maps