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Orange County Cemetery Records
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Transcribed gravestone inscriptions from cemeteries in Orange County, New York. Researchers can browse digital images of these records, but they cannot currently be searched. The collection page contains a complete list of all cemeteries available, including waypoint links to view images from each cemetery.
Orange County, New York Cities, Towns, and Villages
This guide for Orange County contains a detailed list of resources for those researching families that lived there. The guide includes a map of municipalities, a brief county history, as well as links to county, local and regional repositories, resources, and societies. A selected bibliography is also available, along with other links that researchers will find highly valuable.
Orange County, New York Guide
This guide for Orange County contains a detailed list of resources for those researching families that lived there. The guide includes a map of municipalities, a brief county history, as well as links to county, local and regional repositories, resources, and societies. A selected bibliography is also available, along with other links that researchers will find highly valuable.
Manors in New York (Part One)
One of the unique aspects of New York history was the existence of manors as political and judicial units in the colonial era.
Searching for Records in Orange County, NY
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Established by Dutch settlers on November 1, 1683, Orange County, NY was primarily inhabited by native Munsee people, with a handful of Dutch in the area. Within the next few decades, influxes of European settlers arrived from Germany (Palatines), the Netherlands, and England, and quickly populated the area.