Staten Island, Richmond County, NY Genealogical Resources

"God could have made a more beautiful place than Staten Island, but he never did." - George William Curtis

"Staten Island... is one of the sweetest spots on our globe. Travel where he may, the voyager fails to find a place where all the comforts and elegance of life are more profusely concentrated than on this island-suburb of the great metropolis America." - John Overton Choules, The Cruise of the Steam Yacht North Star (New York: Evans & Dickerson; Boston: Gould & Lincoln, 1854), p. 349

Thought for Today by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) From Ancestry Daily News, 12 May 2005
"Whatever you would do, begin it. Boldness has courage, genius and magic in it."

New! Update schedule for the site (in progress)

If you have material of genealogical interest and would like to have it included on our website, please contact me.

Please make sure you read our Crash Course in Staten Island Genealogy

Hello and Welcome! This page is intended to be THE ULTIMATE collaborative online source for Staten Island, Richmond County, New York genealogy. No one of us is an expert, though we welcome all contributions such as surnames, help offers, resource information, etc. Please feel free to send e-mail to SIGenealogy with any questions or expression of interest regarding the website. For research questions, join our e-mailing list!
We may not be able to answer all questions, but we will certainly try!

Here is an explanation of this site's major links and the information within.
• Books/Lookups ~ Books regarding Staten Island; where you may purchase them and people who have offered lookups.
• Cemeteries ~ List of Staten Island cemeteries, plus links to Asbury interments, FACSI burials database, and Vosburgh's inscriptions.
• Census ~ Information regarding the censuses, availability, indexes, transcriptions, and schedules. Also includes directories.
• Churches ~ List of some churches, plus transcriptions of Asbury interments and Dutch marriages.
• FHL Holdings ~ Listings from the FHL catalog which were catalogued under Staten Island.
• History and geography ~ History of the Island, towns, and maps.
• Immigration ~ Partial ship list and Ashburton Passenger list.
• Legal records ~ Wills, probate, land records
• Military ~ all military conflicts and how to get data - lots of data on our site!
• Newspapers ~
• Obituaries ~ how to get them. Will include current index from NYRICHMO-L.
• Organizations ~ FACSI, SIHS, SIIAS, and others, and how to join.
• Photo tour ~ Photos and postcards from old Staten Island.
• Schools ~ List, and yearbook transcriptions.
• Search ~
• Site Info ~ site history - will contain contact information as well.
• Surnames ~ Exchange information with other familial researchers!
• Vitals Info: B, M, D ~ availability and information.

Help needed! If you have ANY public domain records relating to Staten Island, please consider submitting them to this site. (Public domain includes anything published 72 or more years ago.) What kinds of documents are we looking for? We are looking for Deeds, Wills, Marriage Records, Census Records, Bible records, Photos, Military Rosters, Military Records and Pensions, etc. You will receive credit for any transcription you submit to us, on the page which it is posted. You shall also retain copyright of the material. If you have anything to donate or lend us, please send us e-mail at Coordinator: .

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Richmond County was the Featured NYGenWeb County for October 1999! Read the wonderful writeup and keep coming back! Thanks so much for making this site what it is!

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