Long Island Counties

Counties

-- Kings [or Brooklyn] (became a Borough of NYC after 1899)

• Brooklyn Collection (Brooklyn Public Library)
• Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online, 1841-1902 (Brooklyn Public Library) -- Its coverage included all of L.I.
• Brooklyn, NY History (Brooklyn On Line)
• Brooklyn Historical Society (The Society)
• Brooklyn On Line (BrooklynOnline.com)
• Kings County History and Information (My New York Genealogy.com)
• Welcome to Nassau County (Ancestry.com  Rootsweb. A New York GenWeb Page)

-- Nassau (part of Queens Co, to 1899, then separated to become a new county)

• Brief History (Nassau County Historical Society)
• Gold Coast Mansions, New York (Historic Long island.com)
• Nassau County Historical Society (The Society)
• History of Nassau County (Nassau County)
• Nassau County History Page (Ancestry.com.  Rootsweb)
• Nassau County, New York (Wikipedia)
• Patent (Ancestry.com.  Rootsweb. Nassau County History Page) 

-- Queens (after 1899, a NYC Borough; when eastern 3 towns became Nassau)

• Articles in the Nassau County Historical Society Journal, 1989-2009  (Nassau County Historical Society. Journal) 
• Cultural Affairs:  Historical Societies (Queens Borough President's Office)
• Cultural Affairs:  History (Queens Borough President's Office)
• History of the Queens Flag (Queens Borough President's Office)
• History of Queens County, with Illustrations, Portraits & Sketches of Prominent Families and Individuals.  New York:  W.W. Munsell & Co., 1882  (Brooklyn Genealogy.com)
• Long Island Division (Queens Library)
• Neighborhoods (Queens Borough President's Office)
• Queens County History and Information (My New York Genealogy.com)
• Queens Historical Society (The Society) 

-- Suffolk

          See  Suffolk County History

          See also Suffolk Historic Newspapers