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Church or Synagogue Records a. Use the Inventory of Church Archives in New York (see below) to locate churches near where your ancestor lived. b. Use the city directories to find what churches of each denomination were in the city in any year. c. Plot the address of the church on a map to find the churches nearest where your ancestor lived. d. Church records many times give important details such as foreign places of birth, and family relationships. e. Church records often list the address where the family was living. f. Churches were specific for ethnic groups, even within the same denomination.



Dutch Reformed
The Marble Collegiate Church, founded in 1628, is one of the oldest continuous Protestant congregations in North America. The congregation is part of the Reformed Church. Baptisms

Marriages

Burials

Membership Lists

Episcopal
Trinity Episcopal Church Parish has a long and cherished history. The Church of England built its first parish church here in 1698. Chapels of ease were (with years constructed): St. George's Chapel (1750; became separate parish in 1811), St. Paul's Chapel (1764), St. John's Chapel (1803/1807; demolished 1918), Trinity Chapel (1851/1856), St. Chrysostom's Chapel (1868; demolished 1924), St. Cornelius the Centurion Chapel (1868), St. Augustine's Chapel (1876), St. Luke's Chapel (1822; became part of Trinity Parish in 1892), St. Agnes' Chapel (1892), and Church of the Intercession Chapel (1846; became part of Trinity Parish in 1907). Vestry minutes survive from 1697.

The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record published Trinity Parish's old parish registers. The old register books dated 1697 to 1748 are lost. A 1750 fire likely caused their destruction.

Baptisms Marriages

St. Mark's Church in the Bowery was constructed in 1795. Baptisms St. Stephen's Episcopal Church was organized in 1805.

Marriages

Coloured Communicants

St. George's Episcopal Church was organized in 1749 as a chapel.

German Reformed
There is a gap in the marriage register during the Revolutionary War period (1776-1783).

Lutheran
The Lutheran Church of New York City has a long and cherished history. The editor of The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record translated and published their old parish registers:

First Communions

Baptisms

Marriages For later marriages, see Christ Church.

Burials

A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

New York, New York City, Saint Peter's Lutheran Church Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

Christ Church Lutheran was built in 1751. In January 1784, Trinity Church and Christ Church combined as "The United German Lutheran Churches in the City of New York."

Marriages

English Lutheran Church First Communions

Presbyterian
The First Presbyterian Church was organized in 1717.

Baptisms

Marriages

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Deaths

Membership Lists

Brick Presbyterian Church's marriage register dated 1727 to 1754 is lost.

The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church

Pre-1868 marriages are lost.

Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church

Scotch Presbyterian Church

Carmine Street Presbyterian Church

Quaker

 * 1657-1940 - Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy: New York City and Long Island 1657-ca. 1940 at Long Island Genealogy - free.


 * Quaker Records at Family History Library

Church of the Transfiguration

Bibliography for NYC Churches
Books about New York City churches in the Family History Library (Copies of these books can be requested at U.S. county libraries through Inter-Library Loan.)


 * Dolan, Jay P. The Immigrant Church: New York's Irish and German Catholics, 1815-1865. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975 FHL 974.71 K2d. Includes maps showing locations of church and when they were built [Manhattan only].
 * Haberstroh, Richard. The German Churches of Metropolitan New York: A Research Guide. New York: New York Genealogical &amp; Biographical Society, c2000. FHL 974.71 K2h. Includes history of the German churches in New York City and lists location, names of current pastors, location of records, and maps of church locations.
 * Mohrer, Fruma, and Marek Web. Guide to the Yivo Archives. New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, c1998.
 * Wolfert, Marion. Index to Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Matthew, New York City Records [database online]. Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 1999. http://www.ancestry.com/ Index includes over 8000 names taken from the marriage records dating from 1835 to 1854. In each case both bride and groom are listed, as well as their date of marriage and places of origin.
 * WPA, Guide to Vital Statistics in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan: Churches. Historical Records Survey, 1942. FHL 974.71 K23ma. Includes index of churches and an address index.


 * Note: the WPA Inventories of Church Archives of New York City (listed below) are essential to finding most church records in the city. The books generally include a list of all churches of the denomination, a chronological list of churches by borough, an alphabetical list of clergymen [incomplete], an address list by borough, and an index. Although the books were compiled in the 1940s, they are still very helpful.


 * WPA. Inventory of the Church Archives of New York City: Eastern Orthodox Churches and the Armenian Church in America. New York: Historical Records Survey, 1940. FHL 974.71 K23eo.


 * WPA. Inventory of the Church Archives of New York City: Lutheran. New York: Historical Records Survey, 1940. FHL 974.71 K23l. Online at findmypast.com


 * WPA.Inventory of the Church Archives of New York City: The Methodist Church. New York: Historical Records Survey, 1939. FHL 974.71 K23m. Online at findmypast.com.


 * WPA. Inventory of the Church Archives of New York City: Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Diocese of New York, 2 Vols. New York: Historical Records Survey, 1940. FHL 974.71 K23en. Online at findmypast.com


 * WPA. Inventory of the Church Archives of New York City: Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. New York: Historical Records Survey, 1940. FHL 974.71 K23p. Online at findmypast.com.


 * WPA. Inventory of the Church Archives of New York City: Reformed Church in America. New York: Historical Records Survey, 1939. FHL 974.71 K23r. Online at findmypast.com.


 * WPA. Inventory of the Church Archives of New York City: Roman Catholic Church, Archdiocese of New York, 2 Vols. New York: Historical Records Survey, 1941. FHL 974.71 K23rc. The library only has vol. 2, which excludes Brooklyn. Volume 2 online at rootsweb