The following link contains instructions for ordering Birth, Marriage, and Death certificates from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. The cost is $2 per record, with a $4 minimum. If you ordered the same document from the New York City Archives the cost would be $15 or more. [1]http://nycnuts.net/genealogy/obtaining_records/index.html Please let me know if you see any mistake, or have any ideas on how to make this page more informative. References 1. http://nycnuts.net/genealogy/obtaining_records/index.html

Walter, Thank you so much for all the information you send to the Bklyn list. It is all very interesting and informative. We appreciate all you do. Betty Noonan

Up to now, Green-Wood Cemetery has not had a formal visitors center, although visitors can wait in the administration building. But this will almost certainly change soon. Richard J. Moylan, president of Green-Wood Cemetery, has announced that the cemetery has received the necessary regulatory and legal approvals to purchase the landmark 19th-century Weir Greenhouse, currently occupied by Weir-McGovern Florist, at 25th Street and Fifth Avenue, across from the cemetery. http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/green-wood-set-obtain-historic-greenho use-visitors-center If the above URL breaks-up, then try: http://tinyurl.com/7l34vxz I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. Regards, Walter Greenspan Great Falls, MT & Jericho, NY

Many thanks to Dick EASTMAN for apprising us of the passing of one of NYC's genealogical giants, Steve SIEGEL, on January 21, 2012. Source: http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2012/01/steve-siegel-rip.html You've probably read Steve's posts on Rootweb's lists, a bit less frequently recently. But, when Steve posted, readers were assured that this man knew his facts and could substantiate all that he wrote. His knowledge of NYC History always impressed me. I only had the pleasure of speaking with Steve once, and exchanging a few emails. We were at the October 2005 Family History Fair at my alma mater, CCNY Graduate Center. Steve was the primary organizer for this annual event, representing the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York. The Fair ran for fifteen years, until 2005, when there was no longer deemed an affo rdable venue. Besides a crowd of metro area researchers, book sellers, genealogical and historical groups participating, we met the crème de la crème of NYC genealogists: Steve SIEGEL, Joy RICH, Jim GARRITY, the incomparable entertainer John MARTINO of IGG, Don ECKERLY of GGG, and Lauren MAHERLIN. As for Steve SIEGEL, succumbing to his battle with cancer, Steve's curriculum vitae is inspirational and thicker than Grandma's handmade, down quilt. * Genealogist for 40 + years dedicated to Jewish genealogy & archival sources, and local NYC history: * Jewish Genealogical Society---founding member, past president * Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York---past president * Jewish Historical Society of New York---president; * 92nd Street YM-YWHA, NY, NY--31 years, as archivist and library director; Steve SIEGEL's work lives on in all of his contribtions to Jewish culture and history, the City of New York, and the reference book he compiled: *Jewish Immigrants of the Nazi Period in the USA * (1978) which is researchable in several NYC universities. With deep thanks to his family, for sharing Steve with us, but for a brief flame in time: Eleanor Simon SIEGEL and the late Morris SIEGEL, brother Jerry SIEGEL, sister, Connie SIEGEL DENNIS, and nieces, Jessica and Katelyn DENNIS. Barb Metro NYC Researcher

Greenpoint’s history buffs will celebrate the 150-year anniversary of the construction of the Civil War ship the USS Monitor this weekend. http://brooklynpaper.com/stories/35/4/dtg_monitormuseum_2012_01_27_bk.html If the above URL breaks-up, then try: http://tinyurl.com/7bxajs9 I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. Regards, Walter Greenspan Great Falls, MT & Jericho, NY

Thank you, Barb, for the post about St. Stephen's Church. I found it quite interesting since my Fitzgerald ancestors attended that church, and my grandmother was married there. Dorothy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [BKLYN] St. Stephens Church, 1873 Brooklyn Eagle Date: July 19 1873 Page/Column: Page 3 St. Stephens Church---The laying of the Corner Stone Tomorrow--Meeting of the Irish Societies

Washington Times, published in Washington, D. C Description: Murder-Suicide Page 7 Date: August 10 1908 HE KILLS WOMAN; SHOOTS HER BABY Jealous Suitor, Cornered in Cellar, Sends Bullet Into Own Brain. KNOCKS DOWN MAN WHO BARS FLIGHT Young Boarder, Put Out for Attentions to Proprietress, Makes Night Attack. New York, Aug. 10 - In a fit of jealousy, Ernest SEITZ, a young fireman, who formerly boarded with Mrs. Bertha HOOD, at 382 Bergen street, Brooklyn, forced his way into her apartments there last night and shot her to death. Then, after stunning another boarder with a blow from the butt of his revolver, SEITZ paused in his flight from the house and fired a bullet into the head of his victim’s year-and-a-half-old daughter, Alice.

Brooklyn Eagle Date: July 19 1873 Page/Column: Page 3 St. Stephens Church---The laying of the Corner Stone Tomorrow--Meeting of the Irish Societies A meeting of the delegates from the various Irish societies to the Irish convention, was held last evening at Hibernian Hall, for the purpose of completing the arrangements for the grand procession, to celebrate the laying of the corner stone of the St Stephens new church, corner of Carroll and Hicks Streets tomorrow afternoon, Mr Ed FRAYNE, President of the Convention, occupied the chair, and Mr. NORTON acted as Secretary. After a readings of the minutes of the previous meeting, the Committee appointed to confer with the Police Commissioners in regard to the proposed procession reported that they has a long conference with the Commissioners, JOURDAN and BRIGGS, and had finally adopted the following route for the procession: Line of march forms at 3 o'clock sharp on Atlantic St, right resting on fourth Avenue countermarch down Atlantic to Columbia Street, Columbia to Carroll Street, to Hicks street, Hicks to Summitt Street by the church to Henry Street, to Atlantic Street, there to be reviewed by Edward HALPIN, Grand Marshal, and his aids The Committee further reported that the Police Commissioners had most decidedly refused to allow any music to be played in the procession. This announcement caused considerable dissapointment among the delegates but as there was no help for it, the decision of the commissioners was regarded as final. Some of the delegates said that , under the promise that they would be allowed to have music, the socieities which they represented had engaged bands, for which they would have to pay. The procession will be in charge of Edward HALPIN as Grand Marshall; Patrick KELLEY first aid; and B.McGUINNESS, second aid. Forty three Societies will turn out, and it is expected that at least six thousand men will parade There being no further business before the Convention, and adjournment was had. http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?action=detail&id=90713

>From The Weissman Center for International Business, Baruch College/CUNY 2011: http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/Population_and_Geography/NYCBoroughMaps.h tm If the above URL breaks-up, then try: http://tinyurl.com/7j3j4dj I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. Regards, Walter Greenspan Great Falls, MT & Jericho, NY

I understand it to be parent(s) meaning parent or parents, not both parents. They will also accept secondary documents, even family bible entries qualify. Dolores In a message dated 1/22/2012 12:54:48 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Folks, This from the page regarding passport application changes. Now, they require both parents names on a certified birth certificate for ID. In the past, how many unwed mothers omitted the father's names from birth certificates? This could impact someone's possibility of obtaining a passport later in life. It is my understanding that in NYS, for the past several years, a father's permission is required for his name to appear on a NYS birth certificate. This should not be at issue for a married couple, but once again puts the onus on the woman/birth mother, in an American society that has many children born outside of marriage, from each societal strata. Looks like Jerry Springer's show will be busier than ever performing paternity tests! Barb ========================================= "Beginning April 1, 2011, the U.S. Department of State will require the full names of the applicant’s parent(s) to be listed on all certified birth certificates to be considered as primary evidence of U.S. citizenship for all passport applicants, regardless of age. Certified birth certificates missing this information will not be acceptable as evidence of citizenship. This will not affect applications already in-process that have been submitted or accepted before the effective date. " http://travel.state.gov/passport/passport_5401.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

For those who may be experiencing difficulty in navigating and reading the two maps that are included in the New York Times article, I have extracted the URLs for these maps. These URLs follow my name. After accessing via these URLs, if you click on the maps, you will then get a larger version of that map. I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. Regards, Walter Greenspan Great Falls, MT & Jericho, NY Map 1 (Brooklyn): http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/nyregion/201111_ethnic_maps/lar ge-map-big.png If the above URL breaks-up, then try: http://tinyurl.com/6wcd9ln Map 2 (Manhattan and the Bronx): http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/nyregion/201111_ethnic_maps/ver t-map-big.png If the above URL breaks-up, then try: http://tinyurl.com/6rwkc3g

Folks, This from the page regarding passport application changes. Now, they require both parents names on a certified birth certificate for ID. In the past, how many unwed mothers omitted the father's names from birth certificates? This could impact someone's possibility of obtaining a passport later in life. It is my understanding that in NYS, for the past several years, a father's permission is required for his name to appear on a NYS birth certificate. This should not be at issue for a married couple, but once again puts the onus on the woman/birth mother, in an American society that has many children born outside of marriage, from each societal strata. Looks like Jerry Springer's show will be busier than ever performing paternity tests! Barb ========================================= "Beginning April 1, 2011, the U.S. Department of State will require the full names of the applicant’s parent(s) to be listed on all certified birth certificates to be considered as primary evidence of U.S. citizenship for all passport applicants, regardless of age. Certified birth certificates missing this information will not be acceptable as evidence of citizenship. This will not affect applications already in-process that have been submitted or accepted before the effective date. " http://travel.state.gov/passport/passport_5401.html

Thank you Walter. This information is very interesting and will be useful in my research. Lillian Pappas ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 3:00 AM Subject: NYBROOKLYN Digest, Vol 7, Issue 17 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. REQUEST:Directory Look-up-HANNAH/HONORA REYNOLDS (Sheila Ploof) > 2. Re: Directory (J Torre) > 3. Police Demographics Unit Casts Shadows From Past > ([email protected]) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:55:21 -0500 > From: Sheila Ploof <[email protected]> > Subject: [BKLYN] REQUEST:Directory Look-up-HANNAH/HONORA REYNOLDS > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]om> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > If anyone has access to City Directories, I would greatly appreciate a > look-up for HONORA/HANNAH REYNOLDS, especially for 1894 at 31 MONROE St., > but any year close to 1894 appreciated as well. > > I found a newspaper article, June 1894, relating that a Hannah Reynolds, > 84, laundress, fell 4 stories, relating her injuries, address, etc. Also > have a death date for a Hannah Reynolds, Aug. 1894. > > Trying to piece it together and figure out whether this Hannah is/was my > great-great grandmother. She was the widow of Martin Reynolds. (Not sure > whether Martin died in Ireland or the U.S.) Their children, that I know > of, > were Michael Reynolds, John Reynolds (my great grandfather) and Catherine > "Kate" Reynolds Conolly, wife of Thomas A. Conolly of Warren St., > Brooklyn. > > My thanks for reading this and for any possible assistance. > Sheila > Upstate NY > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:22:04 -0800 (PST) > From: J Torre <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [BKLYN] Directory > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Ditto -- directories are alphabetical by surname and sometimes also > business name.? They generally list only the head of household.? > Sometimes, I've seen a spouse's name in parentheses; for a woman?I've > sometimes seen (widow of ....).? Sometimes adults in the household?other > than the head?are listed separately.? The key word in it all is > "sometimes". > Also, like the censuses, spelling can be capricious. > ? > Nonetheless, I've found?directories very useful for tracking where?a > family lived from year to year, bracketing when someone died, etc. > > J Torre > >>Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:14:36 -0600 >>From: John Quigley <[email protected]> >> >>???Directories are in alphabetical order, so yes it will show people >>living at >>???that address but only in Alpha order, not by address. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:41:06 -0500 (EST) > From: [email protected] > Subject: [BKLYN] Police Demographics Unit Casts Shadows From Past > To: [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > NY Times has an article, with maps, about where the various ethnic > communities were in 1920 New York City. > > http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/police-demographics-unit-casts- > shadows-from-past/ > > If the above URL breaks-up, then try: > http://tinyurl.com/79s6t8y > > > I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. > > Regards, > > Walter Greenspan > Great Falls, MT & Jericho, NY > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the NYBROOKLYN list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the NYBROOKLYN mailing list, send an email to > [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of NYBROOKLYN Digest, Vol 7, Issue 17 > ***************************************** >

It can also be a good idea to scan the addresses listed for others of that same surname, once you've found your "people" in the directory. Occasionally, you'll see a relative with the same surname, shown with the same address, but listed under their own given name - this is sometimes the case with a son who was an adult and had a profession of his own, and was living at the same address as his parents. Judy H -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J Torre Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 8:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BKLYN] Directory Ditto -- directories are alphabetical by surname and sometimes also business name.  They generally list only the head of household.  Sometimes, I've seen a spouse's name in parentheses; for a woman I've sometimes seen (widow of ....).  Sometimes adults in the household other than the head are listed separately.  The key word in it all is "sometimes". Also, like the censuses, spelling can be capricious.   Nonetheless, I've found directories very useful for tracking where a family lived from year to year, bracketing when someone died, etc. J Torre >Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:14:36 -0600 >From: John Quigley <[email protected]> > >   Directories are in alphabetical order, so yes it will show people living at >   that address but only in Alpha order, not by address. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

NY Times has an article, with maps, about where the various ethnic communities were in 1920 New York City. http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/police-demographics-unit-casts- shadows-from-past/ If the above URL breaks-up, then try: http://tinyurl.com/79s6t8y I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. Regards, Walter Greenspan Great Falls, MT & Jericho, NY

Ditto -- directories are alphabetical by surname and sometimes also business name.  They generally list only the head of household.  Sometimes, I've seen a spouse's name in parentheses; for a woman I've sometimes seen (widow of ....).  Sometimes adults in the household other than the head are listed separately.  The key word in it all is "sometimes". Also, like the censuses, spelling can be capricious.   Nonetheless, I've found directories very useful for tracking where a family lived from year to year, bracketing when someone died, etc. J Torre >Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:14:36 -0600 >From: John Quigley <[email protected]> > >   Directories are in alphabetical order, so yes it will show people living at >   that address but only in Alpha order, not by address.

If anyone has access to City Directories, I would greatly appreciate a look-up for HONORA/HANNAH REYNOLDS, especially for 1894 at 31 MONROE St., but any year close to 1894 appreciated as well. I found a newspaper article, June 1894, relating that a Hannah Reynolds, 84, laundress, fell 4 stories, relating her injuries, address, etc. Also have a death date for a Hannah Reynolds, Aug. 1894. Trying to piece it together and figure out whether this Hannah is/was my great-great grandmother. She was the widow of Martin Reynolds. (Not sure whether Martin died in Ireland or the U.S.) Their children, that I know of, were Michael Reynolds, John Reynolds (my great grandfather) and Catherine "Kate" Reynolds Conolly, wife of Thomas A. Conolly of Warren St., Brooklyn. My thanks for reading this and for any possible assistance. Sheila Upstate NY

Directories are in alphabetical order, so yes it will show people living at that address but only in Alpha order, not by address. -- John Quigley Chair, USGenWeb Grievance Committee CC Kinney County TX

Can someone tell me what information is given in a directory? I am looking for my father and I have an address of 155 Hendrix St. In the year 1934. Will it give the names of all people living at that address? Eliz.

FYI While shopping for the holi-daze, I found that Best Buy carries a brand of acid free, multi-purpose, 20 lb. printer paper that does not jam my printer. The brand is Boise paper and called: X-9 Hi-Brite Multipurpose Paper. Plus, it is made in the USA. If you are interested, just go online to BestBuy.com, type in printer paper, and look for the specifications above. You can actually order paper online, and choose the exact store where you'd like to pick it up. Very handy tool. I have no personal connection to Boise paper or Best Buy. Barb Metro NYC Researcher