Upstate, downstate, all around the Empire State, and beyond, discover or rediscover free resources for investigating ancestors’ lives or family history context. Step-by-step, learn to navigate no-fee websites with many updated links to New York-area digitized county histories, digitized vital records, oral histories, old photos and postcards, state census records, historic newspapers, county/local history experts and more!

Marian Burk Wood is the author of the best selling genealogy book, Planning a Future for your Family’s Past.