Religious Records

Guides and General Resources

• Roger D. Joslyn, "New York," in Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County & Town Sources, rev.ed. (1992) pp. 521-40

The films listed below contain records of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), created by the Monthly Meetings (MM) within the jurisdiction of the New York Yearly Meeting.

Previous articles in this series have covered records in the NYG&B Collection for the Methodist, Dutch Reformed, Lutheran, Episcopalian and Presbyterian churches of old New York City (Manhattan).

Germans, Scandinavians, and others of the Lutheran faith were among the earliest European settlers of Manhattan Island.

Our Online Records Platform features religious records—including birth, marriage, and death records—from over 120 congregations across New York State. 

Vital records—records of birth, marriage, and death events—are some of the most important records to pursue when piecing together your family history.

St. Luke’s Church was started in 1850 by Rev. William Drees and a small group of his Dutch Reformed congregation.

St. Paul’s Evangelical Reformed Church was organized around the year 1852 as the German Evangelical Reformed Church.

The church was located on Suffolk Street near Delancey Street in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

This inventory lists the records available to researchers in the Archives of the Episcopal Diocese of New York at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

Between 1913 and 1921, Royden Woodward Vosburgh (1875-1931) transcribed for The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society records of some 94 New York State Protestant churches, in 104 volumes.