Manhattan Genealogy (in New York County)

Birth Records

Births Reported in Brooklyn 1891, 1898, and 1899 (includes parts of Manhattan and Bronx) Brooklyn Genealogy Information Page
Manhattan birth certificates, 1866-1897; birth index cards, 1866- 1897 Family History Library
Manhattan birth certificates, 1866-1897; birth index cards, 1866- 1897 Family History Library
Register of births, borough of Manhattan, 1847-1873; indexes, 1830-1865 Family History Library
State of New York certificate and record of birth (Borough of Manhattan) 1898-1909 Family History Library

Cemetery Records

African Methodist Cemetery Find a Grave
African Zion Cemetery Find a Grave
Burials in the Dyckman-Nagel burial ground and the Berrian graveyards near Kingsbridge, New York City Family History Library
Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine Find a Grave
Church of the Transfiguration Find a Grave
East Coast WWII Memorial at Battery Park Find a Grave
First Presbyterian Church Find a Grave
Gravestone inscriptions of Trinity Cemetery, New York City, New York Ancestry
Gravestone inscriptions of Trinity Cemetery, New York City, New York Ancestry
Marble Cemetery Marble Cemetery
Saint Mark's Church-In-The-Bowery Find a Grave
Saint Patrick's Old Cathedral Churchyard Find a Grave
Saint Patricks Cathedral Find a Grave
Saint Paul the Apostle Church Find a Grave
Saint Paul's Chapel and Churchyard Find a Grave
Second African Burial Ground Find a Grave
The Nagle-Dyckman-Vermilye Cemetery : West 214 Street & 10th Avenue, anciently known as Kings Bridge, now known as The Dyckman Section, New York City Family History Library

Census Records

1855 census of the 15th Ward, New York City Ancestry

Church Records

A History of the parish of Trinity Church in the city of New York Ancestry
A Monograph to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of the organization in 1628 of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church (of NYC) Ancestry
A brief history of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church and its activities Ancestry
A century's progress : an historical sketch of the First Seventh Day Baptist Church of New York City Ancestry
A historical discourse delivered at the seventieth anniversary of the New York Presbyterian Church Ancestry
A history of the Brick Presbyterian Church in the city of New York Ancestry
A history of the Moravian Church in New York City Ancestry
A jubilee sermon(First Baptist Church of NYC) Ancestry
A romance of providence : being a history of the Church of the Strangers, in the city of New York Ancestry
A short history of the Brick Presbyterian Church in the city of New York : 1768-1943 Ancestry
A short history of the Church of the Holy Apostles (P.E.) : 9th Ave. & 28th St., New York City, 1836-1907 Ancestry
An historical sketch of Trinity Church, New-York Ancestry
Annals of New York Methodism (history of the Methodist Episcopal church in NYC 1766-1890) Ancestry
Catalogue of members in the communion of the (Collegiate) Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the City of New York Ancestry
Catalogue, Methodist Episcopal Church (principally New York and vicinity) official manuscript records (includes marriage records) Ancestry
Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine (history of of NYC church) Ancestry
Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church; Nineteenth Street, Manhattan, New York City; parish registers, 1868-1946 Family History Library
Chronicle of the Church of the Holy Communion (in NYC) Ancestry
Complete guide to St. Patrick's, New York (cathedral of NYC) Ancestry
Diamond jubilee in commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary : 1940 (Church of Gustavus Adolphus, New York City) Ancestry
Directory of the Eighteenth St. M.E. Church of New York : containing a list of the present members and probationers, alphabetic (1878) Ancestry
Directory, Tremont Baptist Church : Tremont Avenue west of Webster Avenue, New York City, 1916 Ancestry
Fifty years of parish life (Church of the Ascension of NYC) Ancestry
Forty-and-five years : an anniversary sermon (of Church of the Transfiguration of NYC) Ancestry
From Abyssinian to Zion : a guide to Manhattan's houses of worship Family History Library
Golden jubilee of St. Philip Neri Parish : Sunday October 3, 1948 Ancestry
Golden memories : Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, New York, 1887-1937 Ancestry
Grace Church and old New York Ancestry
Historical sermon delivered at the sesquicentennial celebration of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, New York City Ancestry
Historical sermon, Ten years in a downtown church (Greenwich Presbyterian Church, New York) Ancestry
Historical sketch of the Church of the Holy Apostles : (Protestant Episcopal) in the city of New York Ancestry
Historical sketch of the South Church (Reformed) of New York City Ancestry
Historical sketch of the origin and organization of the Reformed Church in America and of the Collegiate Church of the City of New York Ancestry
History of St. George's Church in the city of New York, 1752-1811-1911 Ancestry
History of St. Stephen's Parish : in the city of New York, 1805-1905 Ancestry
History of the Church of Zion and St. Timothy of New York : 1797-1894 Ancestry
History of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York City, New York from 1808 to 1908 Ancestry
History of the Parish of the Incarnation, New York City : 1852-1912 Ancestry
History of the school of the Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church in the city of New York Ancestry
History of the school of the Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church in the city of New York : from 1633 to 1883 Ancestry
Lost chapters recovered from the early history of American Methodism (John Street Methodist Episcopal Church of NYC) Ancestry
Narrative of events connected with the bicentennial celebration of Trinity Church, New York : in May, 1897 Ancestry
Old Chelsea and Saint Peter's Church : the centennial history of a New York parish Ancestry
Old Spring Street Presbyterian Church, New York City : an historical discourse Ancestry
Parish annals : a sermon giving historical notices of St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, N.Y. (from A.D. 1795 to A.D. 1845) Ancestry
Seventieth anniversary of the New York Baptist City Society Ancestry
Souvenir album : some portraits of prominent New York clergymen (Church of the Strangers, New York) Ancestry
St. Luke's Lutheran Church : in the city of New York, 1850-1940 Ancestry
Ten years of history (1893-1903 of Anderson Memorial Church of NYC) Ancestry
The Broadway Tabernacle Church, 1901-1915 Ancestry
The Broadway Tabernacle of the past and future Ancestry
The Church of St. Stephen : 1849-1894 : an historical sketch Ancestry
The Church of the Puritans, Presbyterian (history) Ancestry
The Huguenot Church of New York : a history of the French Church of Saint Esprit Ancestry
The Little Church Around the Corner (Church of the Transfiguration of NYC) Ancestry
The New York down-town Presbyterian churches Ancestry
The Parish of St. Michael, 1857-1957 : a century of grace on the West Side Ancestry
The Riverside Church in the city of New York : a handbook of the institution and its building Ancestry
The centennial history of Saint Bartholomew's Church in the city of New York : 1835-1935 Ancestry
The history of the Church of the Holy Apostles (Protestant Episcopal) : 1844-1944 Ancestry
The oldest Lutheran church in America : a brief chronicle of events in the history of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Matthew Ancestry
The services in celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Old First Presbyterian Church in the city of New York Ancestry
The stone of help : a discourse, historical and commemorative(Reformed Presbyterian Church of New York city) Ancestry
The story of Old John Street Methodist Episcopal Church : 44 John Street, New York City, 1766-1934 Ancestry
The story of St. Mary's : the Society of the Free Church of St. Mary the Virgin, New York City, 1868-1931 Ancestry
The story of St. Monica's Parish : New York City, 1879-1954 Ancestry
Trinity Church bicentennial celebration : May 5th, 1897 (of NYC) Ancestry
Walks in our churchyards : old New York, Trinity Parish Ancestry

Death Records

Death certificates (Manhattan, New York), 1919-1948 Family History Library
Index of marriages and deaths in New York weekly museum (1788-1817) Ancestry
Manhattan death certificates, 1866-1919 ; index, 1868-1890 : Works Projects Administration, project no. 265-1-97-28; Work project no. 1 Family History Library
Manhattan death registers, 1795-1865 Family History Library
Marriage and death notices from the New York weekly museum, 1789-1796 Ancestry
Marriage and death notices from the New-York weekly museum, 1790-1793 Ancestry

Directories

Brightest spot in New York (history of Eighth Avenue Mission) Ancestry
From Abyssinian to Zion : a guide to Manhattan's houses of worship Family History Library
General directory of the boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, city of New York, 1913 Family History Library
Manhattan 1930 Directory Brooklyn Genealogy Information Page
Manhattan New York City Directory: 1829-30 Ancestry
Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City telephone directories, 1923-1926 Family History Library
Manhattan, New York City, New York Directory: 1839-1840 Ancestry
Manhattan, New York County, New York, City Directory, 1943 World Vital Records
Manhattan, New York County, New York, City Directory, 1949 World Vital Records
New York, City Directories(includes Manhattan 1931) Ancestry
New York, City Directories(includes New York 1836, 1857, 1859, 1915, 1917, and 1925) Ancestry
U.S. City Directories (includes Manhattan 1931) Ancestry

Historical Records

A landmark history of New York : including a guide to commemorative sites and monuments (printed 1928) Ancestry
Annals of old Manhattan (1600-1775) Ancestry
Fifth Avenue (history published in 1918) Ancestry
Fifth Avenue events : a brief account of some of the most interesting events which have occurred on the avenue Ancestry
Guide to Genealogical and Biographical Sources for New York City (Manhattan), 1783 - 1898 World Vital Records
History of the town of Kings Bridge (now part of the 24th Ward, New York City) Ancestry
List of persons who were taxed on seventeen thousand five hundred dollars and upwards in the city of New York (in 1850) Ancestry
Manhattan Club 1897 List of Members Genealogy Today
Manhattan Club 1905 List of Members Genealogy Today
Manhattan Club 1913 List of Members Genealogy Today
Manhattan Club 1918 List of Members Genealogy Today
Manhattan, 1624-1639 Ancestry
Manhattan, now and long ago Ancestry
New York's Chinatown : an historical presentation of its people and places Ancestry
Old New York : a lecture (1880) Ancestry
Old buildings of New York City : with some notes regarding their origin and occupants Ancestry
Olden time in New York Ancestry
Progress of New York in a century, 1776-1876 Ancestry
Tales of old New York Ancestry
The Metropolitan Hospital : a chronicle of sixty-two years Ancestry
The New Yorkers : the story of a people and their city Ancestry
The book of New York : forty years' recollections of the American metropolis Ancestry
The chronicles of Gotham Ancestry
The description of the city of New-York Ancestry
The evolution of Stuyvesant Village (New York City) : Tenth to Bleecker Streets, Broadway to Second Avenue and around there Ancestry
The great metropolis : a mirror of New York : a complete history of metropolitan life and society, with sketches of prominent people in 1869 Ancestry
The old merchants of New York City Ancestry
The settlement of Manhattan in 1624 Ancestry
The story of Manhattan Ancestry
The story of the city of New York Ancestry
The story of the volunteer fire department of the city of New York Ancestry
Three hundredth anniversary of the settlement on Manhattan Island, 1614-1914 Ancestry
When old New York was young Ancestry
Ye Olde Settlers' Association of ye West Side : history, by-laws, list of members, and historical papers Ancestry

Marriage Records

Catalogue, Methodist Episcopal Church (principally New York and vicinity) official manuscript records (includes marriage records) Ancestry
Index of marriages and deaths in New York weekly museum (1788-1817) Ancestry
Manhattan (New York City) marriage records, 1866-1937 ; index to all boroughs, 1866-1937 Family History Library
Marriage and death notices from the New York weekly museum, 1789-1796 Ancestry
Marriage and death notices from the New-York weekly museum, 1790-1793 Ancestry
New York City Marriages Groom Index (Brooklyn 1864-1907, Manhattan 1866-1907, and New York City Grooms All Boroughs 1908-1936) Italian Genealogical Group

Military Records

How the Dutch came to Manhattan Ancestry

Newspapers

Index of marriages and deaths in New York weekly museum (1788-1817) Ancestry
Marriage and death notices from the New York weekly museum, 1789-1796 Ancestry
Marriage and death notices from the New-York weekly museum, 1790-1793 Ancestry

School Records

U.S. School Yearbooks Index (includes Dalton School 1961) Ancestry
U.S. School Yearbooks Index (includes New York University 1919) Ancestry

Vital Records

Births Reported in Brooklyn 1891, 1898, and 1899 (includes parts of Manhattan and Bronx) Brooklyn Genealogy Information Page
Catalogue, Methodist Episcopal Church (principally New York and vicinity) official manuscript records (includes marriage records) Ancestry
Death certificates (Manhattan, New York), 1919-1948 Family History Library
Index of marriages and deaths in New York weekly museum (1788-1817) Ancestry
Manhattan (New York City) marriage records, 1866-1937 ; index to all boroughs, 1866-1937 Family History Library
Manhattan birth certificates, 1866-1897; birth index cards, 1866- 1897 Family History Library
Manhattan birth certificates, 1866-1897; birth index cards, 1866- 1897 Family History Library
Manhattan death certificates, 1866-1919 ; index, 1868-1890 : Works Projects Administration, project no. 265-1-97-28; Work project no. 1 Family History Library
Manhattan death registers, 1795-1865 Family History Library
Marriage and death notices from the New York weekly museum, 1789-1796 Ancestry
Marriage and death notices from the New-York weekly museum, 1790-1793 Ancestry
New York City Marriages Groom Index (Brooklyn 1864-1907, Manhattan 1866-1907, and New York City Grooms All Boroughs 1908-1936) Italian Genealogical Group
Register of births, borough of Manhattan, 1847-1873; indexes, 1830-1865 Family History Library
State of New York certificate and record of birth (Borough of Manhattan) 1898-1909 Family History Library


More records for Manhattan are available on the New York County page and the statewide page