Kings County New York Genealogy and History     This site is available for adoption! Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this website become a useful research tool. If you would like to join our group and become the host of this county, please read what we're all about on our Volunteer Page (A desire to transcribe data and basic webpage skills are necessary) Until we get a dedicated volunteer to maintain this site, we'll do the best we can to add data as we come across it. You can send your family's raw data (transcribed birth/marriage/death, cemetery, census, biography records) to us and we'll include it on this site. WE REGRET THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO DO PERSONAL RESEARCH FOR YOU. All data we come across will be added to this website, so please keep checking back. County Information Note: Because the term "New York City" is used very freely in newspapers, bios, etc., we have placed data that doesn't specify EXACTLY what part of "New York City" it's from, here "New York City" is composed of 5 counties (aka boroughs): Bronx County (aka The Bronx) Kings County (aka Brooklyn) New York County (aka Manhattan) Queens County (aka Queens) Richmond County (aka Staten Island) New York City is considered the county seat of all of the 5 boroughs. Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County Brooklyn Bridge, c. 1919 From Library of Congress Original Contributor: Irving Underhill Brooklyn is connected to Manhattan by three bridges: the Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Williamsburg bridges; a vehicular tunnel, the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel; and several subway tunnels. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge links Brooklyn with the more suburban borough of Staten Island. Though much of its border is on land, Brooklyn shares several water crossings with Queens, including the Kosciuszko Bridge (part of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway), the Pulaski Bridge, and the JJ Byrne Memorial Bridge, all of which carry traffic over Newtown Creek, and the Marine Parkway Bridge connecting Brooklyn to the Rockaway Peninsula. (source: wikipedia.org) View a list of the neighborhoods of Brooklyn City-County Consolidation: New York City consolidated with the Counties of Bronx (The Bronx), Kings (Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Queens (Queens), and Richmond (Staten Island) in 1874. County Seat: New York City Year Organized: 1683 Square Miles: 309 Courthouse Info: City Hall 52 Chambers Street New York, NY 10007-1222 Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories and Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Apr 2013: Obits for FARMER, COMBS, NIEDRACH, GORMAN, MCGUIRE, BAYLIE, WEBER, MURPHY; LOEWY birth announcement Mar 2013: bios for FILMER, BELL, FOBES, CORLISS, HARTSON Oct 2012: Miscellaneous news item for RYAN, bio for MURPHY, MYERS, MURRAY, BLYDENBURGH July 2012: death notices for LOEWENTHAL, GREENE; Marriage notice for GREEN-REDHEAD June 2012: MYGATT death notice Apr 2012: OPPS obit; Miscellaneous news story for Trolley strikers Nov 2011: ADAMS, ARNOLD, MARUM, MITCHELL bios; RHODES obits; Fire news stories Oct 2011: DIMITRY, JOHNSON, CONNORS, POTTER bios; death notice for ELLISON; List of Cemeteries June 2011 obits for MURRAY, HISLOP, JOHNSON, LOW, CAHILL, SMYTH, BUTTS/SCHULTZ, MENAHAN, WELLS, TRAINOR, OLIVER, MOTT, LOVITT, LEFFERTS, LARGE, KANE, JOY, HAYNE, HALL, GENUNG, BIBBS, CARRINGTON, BUTLER, MORRISON, RIVERS; biography of EARLY, SCANLON, DARLINGTON, KELLOGG, STRINGHAM, SCHROEDER, BELL, LEWIS Wills for CONREL, RAPALYE, VAN BRUNT, VAN DUYN, VOORHEES; Index to Estate Inventories 1666-1775 Previous Updates: Duryea bio; obits for AYRES, BAILEY, BEECHER, GRAY, HIRSHLEIFER Search Our Sites | Join Our Mailing Lists (New York is covered on the Northeast Mailing List)       Visit our NY State Site Surrounding Counties Richmond Queens New York Visit the National Genealogy Trails Site       Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.