Sourcery is a not-for-profit service that gives researchers access to documents that can't be found online by paying other researchers to find them. It aims to streamline the process that researchers go through by providing one simple platform that works at any collecting institution in their service area (currently New York City, Boston, and Storrs; coming soon to Providence, New Haven, Washington, DC, and other cities). Just provide the document’s citation information, and Sourcery will do the rest.

The New York State Family History Conference is online and underway. Registration is unfortunately closed, but if you happen to be attending, be sure to check out the session at 8:30am on Saturday ("Dutch Naming Systems in Early America" has been cancelled) with Sue Miller of NYG&B and NNI director Steve McErleane on the resources of the New Netherland Institute. 

NNI will receive a total of $16,500 from Dutch Culture USA for two projects related to New Netherland and its legacy.

The first is an ArcGIS StoryMap—an immersive web experience that combines text, interactive maps, and other multimedia content—of Dutch-American heritage sites. 

The second—a collaboration between NNI and the Archives of the Reformed Church in America in New Brunswick, NJ—will digitize and create a calendar for the manuscripts in "The Amsterdam Correspondence," a collection held by the Reformed Church Archives that consists of nearly 400 documents (approximately 1,000 page-sides), almost exclusively in the Dutch language, written in places now within the bounds of the states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania from the 1640s to the early 1800s.

Keep in mind that no more than 50% of these projects are funded by Dutch Culture USA. The remainder comes from NNI's annual fund.

In the third episode of their series "Legends and Lore of the Empire State," A New York Minute In History explored the inspirations behind Washington Irving’s “Headless Horseman” and “Ichabod Crane.”