Research

Research Tips

• GAR Records
• Town Clerks' Civil War Registers
• Civil War Service Abstracts
• World War I Service Records

Name Index

The Probate Records Leaflet identifies and discusses the various courts and offices that have filed, recorded, or maintained probate records in New York since 1665. It also describes probate records held by the State Archives and lists all known indexes and abstracts of those records.

• The indexes cover the entire state outside of New York City and start in June 1880 (deaths) or 1881 (marriages and births).
• Birth indexes are made available after 75 years, marriage and death indexes after 50 years. Birth indexes have been made available through 1937 only.
• An index entry states only the name of the person, date and place of event, and State certificate number. Indexes for certain years are arranged by SOUNDEX codes.

Name Index 

The Name Index includes individual names appearing in the records of various state agencies whose records are held by the New York State Archives.   The following record series are represented in the name index:

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Finding Aids
Finding aids provide detailed information about individual record series held by the State Archives.

Digital Collections
Select items from our collections are available in our Digital Collections, which provides access to photographs, textual records, government documents, film, audio and other materials.

Name Indexes 
The index includes individual names appearing in the records of various state agencies whose records are held by the New York State Archives.

Motion Picture Division Index
The Motion Picture Division index summarizes the information that exists in the case file for each film, and provides different ways of locating this information.