Welcome. Feel Free To Poke Around.

You don’t have to be Sherlock to figure out that this blog is no longer being updated on the regular. But I still periodically check and update the resource links at the right-hand side of the page.

Most of the links reflect the core mission of this blog: research in urban and suburban New York and New Jersey. If you want to know about New Jersey churches, or forgotten movie palaces, or everything Newark, check them out. And use the search box to find past posts on Brooklyn, Jersey City, the Albany-Troy (NY) area, and general musings on big-city ancestors.

This blog remains dedicated to everyone whose ancestors lived in tenement apartments and commuter-town bungalows instead of on cattle ranches and colonial farms, to everyone with a brick-wall Brooklyn ancestor who despaired at the classic census advice to “read the whole county.” In short: to all of us with city cousins waiting to be found.

Happy searching, urban genealogy friends.

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