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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
Environment and Landscape
Film Scripts
Genealogy
- Alien Depositions
- Almshouse and Poorhouse Census
- Civil Service Employee Records
- Civil War Service Abstracts
- Deeds
- Executive Clemency Records
- GAR Records
- Land Patents
- Marriage Bonds
- Military Patents
- Mix's Catalog
- Prison Inmate Records
- Sing Sing Admission Registers
- Tax Assessment Rolls
- Vital Records Index
- War of 1812 Claims
- War Service Records and Searches
- World War I Service Records
Legal and Corrections
- Alien Depositions
- Campaign Financial Disclosures
- Deeds
- Executive Clemency Records
- Land Patents
- Military Patents
- Marriage Bonds
- Prison Inmate Records
- Sing Sing Admission Registers
Military
- Civil War Service Abstracts
- GAR Records
- Military Patents
- Town Clerks' Civil War Registers
- War of 1812 Claims
- War Service Records and Searches
- World War I Service Records