"We are delighted to announce publication of the first disk in the CD-ROM edition of THE RECORD, covering the journal's first thirty years, 1870 through 1899. Every page of the first 120 issues of THE RECORD, plus the single issue of its predecessor, the Bulletin of 1869, has been scanned and digitized. The results can be viewed and searched on every word on your computer screen using Adobe Acrobat Reader"--Http://www.nygbs.org/info/therecordcd1.html....

Learn how to access New York State probate records spanning more than 350 years, through the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, each of New York's sixty-two county surrogate's courts (those in charge of probating estates today), and other key repositories. An essential handbook for anyone with New York ancestors.