I might have posted this before, if I had, please forgive me for posting again.

Brooklyn Newsstand is a database of the Brooklyn Public Library.

It’s free. One does not need a Brooklyn Public Library card to access this database.

Just google, Brooklyn Newsstand, and go from there.
There you will ...

Okay, I’m starting with the easiest. This commitment decree concerns
Mary A Linden.

There is no date of birth or residence of note for Mary Ann Linden. But she did live in New York City at that time. Remember, in 1872,NYC was solely Manhattan and some areas of the Bronx.

She was committed to ...

Thank you all for your responses and assistance.

DNA won’t help as I was not related to Joe and my cousin who suspected that he was her real grandfather died over a decade ago.

My father’s baby sister, Annie, had NF. It did not materialize until she was in her late thirties. The only other person ...

Nancy is a nickname for those named Ann. True story.

My husband came upon documents tossed onto a street in Lower Manhattan. They’re patients’ records from the notorious Blackwell’s Island from the mid to late 19th century.

I’ve been attempting to track down descendants through Ancestry to no avail.

I’m re-reading the documents now as some of the ...

My paternal grandparents, Anthonio Alessandro Gardella, a/k/a Alex and Maria Musa a/k/a Mamie were both born in the States.
Alex in Detroit in 1875. Mamie in East New York, Brooklyn in 1888.

Their marriage fell apart. Their six children were sent to orphanages. None of the children had been ...

That is a bother. What else do you know about him? What about his marriage certificate? A marriage certificate will always show the parents’ names.

Do you know where and when he was born, or approximately so?

Baptism?

Tell me more.

My daughter is not of 100 percent Italian ancestry. She has English and Mexican ancestry as well.

She clearly looks like a northern Italian with very, very pale porcelain skin, dark blonde hair and chestnut brown eyes. Then there are the cheekbones.
I must confess that everyone in my family has ...

No one gets my DNA without a court order. But that’s me, of course.

In fact I have in my possession, my great grandfather, Guglielmo’s passport. He was my father’s maternal grandfather.

This Nonno of mine had blond hair, blue eyes and a red beard.
He was from Soragna and was often indicated as Swiss on ships’ manifests coming to the New World.

I am of 100 percent Italian ancestry. But some of the family, fifty percent, came from the North Liguria and Emilia Romagna, and fifty percent from Benevento.
None of us have olive toned skin.

Not a one.

Our skin tone is pale. Our hair coloring runs from chestnut brown to light brown to blonde ...

I was going for Jure Sanguinis through my great grandfather. I was just about to schedule an appointment with the Italian Consulate when the law changed.

My contacts tell me that it might change back so hang on to all of your documents in case it does.

It took me so long to prepare for the Italian ...

NY State records. Depending upon what records you are seeking, it is sometimes faster to deal with the actual county that issued those records rather than going through the state itself.

Let me know what you are looking for.

I live in NY. I’ve had great success going directly to Westchester County ...

As to Military records, I wrote directly to the Department of the Navy and received the records for two of my paternal uncles. One uncle died prior to World War II, the other served in the Pacific during the war.

The records arrived to me rather quickly.

You might try writing directly to the ...

What State of NY records are you looking for?