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    Long Island Life Saving Stations and Personnel 1872-1876
    F. W. Beers 1873 Atlas of Long Island
    Stratton genealogy of Long Island, Sidney Vanuxem Stratton, 1901
    Long Island Research Text Available online from Long Island Genealogy
    "Salmon Record" Indexes -   DEATHS  MARRIAGES
    Research Tool For Use With The Brookhaven Town Cemetery List
    Corrections to Robert Miller’s 1901 Hawxhurst Genealogy  Rebecca Walch
    The Old Horton House Built by Barnabas Horton Esq. in 1640, Oct. 1878
     Memoir of Johannes Schenk: the progenitor of the Bushwick, family, 1876
    Franklinville, Long Island Passing into History - 1898
    Garvies Point Museum and Preserve     - LI geology & Native Amer archaeology
    The Story of Long Island Presbytery and Churches - George Nicholson
    Wireless History - By L.I. Wireless Historical Society
    Old Medical Terms - often found in old death certificates
    Detailed Map of Long Island circa 1900
    Old Long Island - offsite link - Dedicated to the Presevation of LI's "Gold Coast" Estates etc
    Riverhead Town Place Names
    Early Moriches in the 17th and 18th centuries
    Image and info of Old Eastport by Don Michne
    Long Island's "Hunter's Garden Association"
    Hunters Garden Association by Don Michne
    New York State Military Unit History Project - off Site Link
    The Story of our LI Duck & "The Big Duck"
    Long Island Duck Fams - sources of Pollutants
    Where to get Suffolk Cty Birth, Marriage & Death Certificates - offsite link
    "LONG ISLAND RESORTS" - 1912 Booklet 112 Pgs of Images & Information
    George M. Easter's Collection of Marriage Records
    LI Wills and Death Notes, 1665-1776
    Vital Records Agencies in New York
    Long Island Outgrows the Country - National Geographic,  March 1951
    NY & LI Cemetery off-Site Iinks
    NY & LI Cemetery Addresses & Telephone Numbers
    Take a Virtual Tour of New Netherland - off site link
    Slavery on Long Island - Articles & off-site Links 
    Muster Rolls of New York Provincial Troops 1755-1764 
    Booker T. Washington Buys Home on LI - April 2, 1911
    The Knapps Lived Here - off site link
    The Camp Upton Story, 1917 - 1921
    Printable Ancestral Worksheets
    Influence of the "Duke's Laws"
    Samson Occum "a Fisher of Men" 1749
    A Quick Synopsis of Long Island History
    Before The Revolution
    What exactly is a GEDCOM File??
    Camp Black - Garden City, Hemstead Plains 1898
    Camp Upton, LI, NY - Images and History
    The Two War Camps On Long Island circa 1898
    Images of Long Island Windmills
    The Lighthouses of Long Island
    The Long Island Motor Races 1906 - 1911
    Important LI Women
    Historical Notes on Indiv. Churches of Early Republic
    Pirates, Whales, Wrecks and Salvage
    New Village Sewing Circle Long Island Quilt Circa 1855
    Historic Long Island Postcards- 1904-1947
    The History of Swift Stream Duck Farm, INC. Moriches, LI
    The Colonization of Eastern Long Island by Peter Venturini
    School Houses and School Teachers
    The Militia of Long Island
    The Ketcham Inn, a look at 18th Century life on Long Island.
    Lineage Societies of  Long Island
    Pirates and Prohibition on Long Island
    War Information, Links and resources relating to NY & LI
    Long Island Community Histories
    The Wreck of the Coal Schooner August Hunt - by Van R. Field
    What Became Of All The Old Port Jefferson Vessels
    Wreck of the Schooner Louis V. Place February 8, 1895
    The Wreck of the Bristol - November 21, 1836
    List of Long Island Life Savers 1901-2 - Brooklyn Eagle
    The strange story of the bark ELIZABETH - Van Field
    Death on the Schooner James E. Bayles
    The Park City of The Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Steamboat Co.
    The Long Island Forum is now available on CD 1938-2004
    Full Length Long Is Research books available online @ Long Is Genealogy
    The papers and biography of Lion Gardiner, 1599-1663 - Curtiss Crane Gardiner, 1833
    Suffolk-Times Obituaries - 1910 - 2003
    Deaths (1891-1900) and Marriages (1878-1900) as Reported by the "Long Islander"
    Patchogue High School Class of 1915
    Some Goldsmith, Hulse, Fordham & Wright History by Martha Wright Tyte
    The LI Native & Black History Newsletter - by Sandi Brewster-walker
    The History of the Sackett/Kelly/Howell Estate
    Assorted Moriches area resident Obits from abt 1900
    Battle of Brooklyn 1776, by  David Roberts
    Scrapbook of Clara Harriet (Young) Terry - clipping from East Moriches Ca.1900
    Anam Benum of Newtown - review by David Roberts
    Old Time Duck Hunting on Long Island
    The Founding Families of Woodside, Queens, New York
    Roster Of Capt. John Hulbert's Company of LI Minute Men
    Images of Old Long Island - Hicksville and Westbury, submitted by Mark Thomas
    "Center Moriches Record" Obituaries
    Poulianos/Poulos Family: First Greeks in Setauket: By George Moraitis
    Moriches Area, Brookhaven School Kids 1910-1924
    Coming to America:Immigrants & quarantine Port of NY, 1758-1954
    Center Moriches area Rebecca's and Mason's Group abt 1940
    Center Moriches Public School abt 1900-1908
    Center Moriches, NY - Class of 1941
    Center Moriches, NY - Class of 1942
     Shelter Island Map produced circa 1930's
    Suffolk County Historical Societies - offsite Link
    African & Native Americans Genealogies of Suffolk Cty, NY - the Invisible People
    A Few Famous Long Island Women
    Sample U.S. Fed Census Forms 1790-1930 (Minus 1890)
    Province of New York - Marriage Licenses previous to 1784
    Birth Date Calculator
    New York State Census Information
    New York Regional Quaker Records
    Old Cooksborough Cemetery, Town of Pittstown, Rensseler Co., NY
    List of Long Island Relatives Buried in NY - Submitted by Sheila Pannitti
    Nassau County Cemeteries - off site link
    The Calendar Change - Old Style vs. New Style
    The Real Founding Father's of LI
    Long Island's first Italian, 1639
    Ansel Smith's fence war - Port Jefferson  NY Times 1899
    Virginia and New York Genealogy - off site link
    The Charity Society, Jericho & Westbury Friends Monthly Meetings
    The Fort Salonga School - 1888
    Useful Information presented by Friends of Long Island Genealogy
    Aliens Naturalized in NY 1802-1814
    The Brooklyn Eagle
    What's In A Name?
    Panoramic Maps of NY State Towns & Villages 1847-1929
    Long Island Town Names Then and Now
    The Brooklyn Navy Yard by W F G Shanks
    The 1655 Indian Uprising on Staten Is
    Gardiners Island  "An American Lordship" by George Lathrop
    The roots of the town of Islip
    LI Indians & the Early Settlers
    Frequently asked Genealogy Questions
    Getting The Most Out of Census Records
    Online Resource Section
    Articles From Great-grandmother's Scrapbook
    Biographies Of a few Early New Yorkers
    What happened to the LI Historical Society?
    Long Island Family Coats of Arms
    Recipes From Grandma's Kitchen
    Touring The Winding Stretches Of The Beautiful Shore Road
    The Monstrous "Jersey" & other British prison ships in NY Harbor.
    Wyandance To Lion Gardener - 06/10/1658 by Richard G. Beyer
    Memories of an Heroic Woman- "Margaret Fuller"
    Long Island Shipwrecks
    The American Life-Saving Service by Martha Lamb
    The Schooner C. C. Colgate & Capt.Franklin N. Van Brunt
    Long Islanders on the Titantic
    The loss of the steamboat Lexington, in LI Sound 01/13/1840   
         
    The Hallock Ancestry - compiled by William A. Hallock, 1940
    Carpenter Family Heroine Escaped Indians Who Killed her Husband & Son
    Long Island Surname Myths
    The Webb Family      by Reynold Webb Wilcox
    Miss Dorothy Mather's Girlhood Scrapbook - "Once Upon a Time"
    Henry Augustus Almy: his descendants & Linage from William Almy
    The Moores of Southold - By Barrington S. Havens
    A List of Executions on Long Island
    Wyandanch:  Sachem of the Montauks - John A. Strong
    "The Verity Family of Long Island" over 270 pgs Available from the author
    The History of Eaton's Neck and Asharoken - Edward A T. Carr
    Joseph Brown of Scotland & Mehetable Vail of Miller's Place
    Titus family in America :  by Dorothy M Titus