Since it began in 1870, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record has been the leader in publishing articles on Long Island families, many of them spread out over several issues. The work of such well-known genealogists as Donald Lines Jacobus, Arthur Adams, Herbert F. Seversmith, and George McCracken, as well as the contributions of many other writers on Long Island genealogy, is well represented, and frequently the English or Dutch origins of families are established. So, reprinting these articles in their entirety makes available a mass of information on Long Island families that has previously been difficult to locate. With additions and corrections from the Record properly appended, this compilation becomes the single greatest repository of Long Island genealogies in existence! (For a complete list of the contents write the Publisher.)