To Denise Jones and others : The GODFREY Library, with MANY Databases can be visited without charge for some of their databases. The Library itself is located in Middletown, CT.and was incorporated in 1947.......... The url is www.godfrey.org. .......... .I believe they 'partner' ,also, with www.familysearch.org Since this Library's location is adjacent-so to speak- to NYS as well as Long Island and the New England States--the Library is 'heavy' on these areas, Denise. I, also, have 1600 and 1700 ancestors from New Amsterdam and Long Island / New Haven Colony---who worked their way up into Westchester,then Duchess Co.,then on up the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys. Let me tell you of ONE of their very useful databases, for example, for very early NYS. researchers which I have mined and am still using extensively: About the late 1890's, the New York Geg. and Biog. Society hired a well-known researcher / author of early Westchester Co.when it was NOT a county but just called Westchester-William S.Pelletreau, to 'read' the old NY/ New Ansterdam original WILL-books which were where? Sorry, I do not know, but originally were in the New York [city] Surrogate's Office and at White Plains ,NY. I n these late1800-earlier 1900's this was the kind of really good-genealogical work that the NYGBS was famous for accomplishing. These books-the earliest over 200 years old when Mr.Pelletreau was hired, were not in good shape-especially the earliest ones. Those remnants-if possible-were copied as they appeared-and damaged- with some readable surnames and words. Then he continued ,chronologically, to EXCERPT all those early WILLS from New York to ,I think 1800. To realize the importance of this body of work--one must remember that because of the early Dutch, English, French, and Spanish SEA-TRADE and wars going on at this time around the Atlantic Ocean and up and down the east-coast of N.America-- where would all these people choose to go for legal business?To register WILLS, Property Transfers, etc. Often, either London or New Amsterdam / New York [city] were chosen. Holland less so-it appears. it amazes me, as I researched through 1660-1730,........the places people came from to Record their business in 'New York: Jamaica ,the Antilles , and all over the Caribbean Islands; up and down New Jersey and the Chesepeake; eastern Pennsylvania ; ;Long Island; Rhode Island; the lower Connecticut River; England and Holland. Obviously--ocean-going- business brought people here and it was convenient to also take care of other personal business at the same time. There were many inter-family-connections for me to find here in these WILL-extracts --by looking up the maiden- surnames of wives when I knew them and verifying places and locations which had not been clearly known--to give two examples.. On-site at Godfrey Library --in hard-copy--there are the ' 'BOSTON'Transcript' newspaper-genealogy columns [1890-1933 or so] and the famour CT. BARBOUR Collection. I live in CA., but have writteb ti Godfrey and arranged for Look-Ups from these most valuable collections. Although the GODFREY Library is NOT as well-known as NEHGS -to which I DO subscribe] or Ancestry.com [to which I do NOT subscribe on ethical grounds]--I find it very easy-to use and the best internet investment I have made. There are 4 Levels: I happened to select Level 3 of 4 levels and it is $80.per year. Level one may be 'no charge' but not sure as more may be accessed as a guest . Good luck, Charlotte J.Sheldon