Research Assistance for Historical Records Throughout the State and Beyond
- Find out if an organization has an archives by using the Historical Records Repository Directory. The Directory provides contact information for the majority of the repositories in the State.
- Find out if a historical record repository has a web site and/or online catalog by searching the New York listing of the Repositories of Primary Sources
- Locate specific records by searching
- Rediscovering New York History and Culture web pages, which provide links to online finding aids, indexes, publications, digitized collections and virtual exhibits.
- Historic Documents Inventory, the statewide section of Excelsior which contains catalog records for more than 25,000 archives and manuscripts collections housed locally at repositories throughout New York State (libraries, historical societies, and other organizations with established archives).
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
The Library of Congress provides a gateway for searching OCLC WorldCat (Manuscript materials) -- nearly 1.5 million catalog records describing archival and manuscript collections and individual manuscripts in public, college and university, and special libraries located throughout North America and around the world. - OCLC MSS Records (via NUCMC Z39.50 Gateway)
Close to 300,000 catalog records available in the OCLC bibliographic database describing archival and manuscript collections in public, college and university, and special libraries located throughout North America and around the world.
- Don't forget about Federal records repositories such as the National Archives, the National Archives Northeast Region (New York City), and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library which hold numerous records relating to New York and its residents.
- Learn how you can care for your personal, family, or organizational records