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Released April 11!

Onondaga Cemetery Records

Location
Onondaga County
Collection Category
Cemetery
Collection Type
Indexed
Body

The Onondaga Cemetery Records collection contains records from the South Onondaga Cemetery and Walnut Grove Cemetery. This collection contains a searchable database, but researchers can also browse images using the waypoints below. South Onondaga Cemetery Walnut Grove Burials Walnut Grove Plots The...

Released December 07!

Onondaga County Histories and Directories

Location
Onondaga County
Collection Category
County Histories
Collection Type
OCR
Body

Histories and directories of Onondaga County, New York. These volumes provide crucial historical context and contain information on the people of Onondaga County. Researchers can search all volumes or browse volumes individually. The collection description contains an overview of each volume.

Released November 21!

Onondaga Court Records

Location
Onondaga County
Collection Category
Court
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Collection Type
Indexed
Body

The Onondaga Court Records collection consists of three searchable collections containing Supreme Court judgements, Surrogate records, and a Common Please Judgement Register. Records can also be browsed. Onondaga Supreme Court Judgements (circa 1809-1821) Onondaga County Surrogate Records, 1795-1834...

Released December 15!

Onondaga Religious Records

Location
Onondaga County
Collection Category
Religious Records
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Collection Type
Indexed
Body

The Onondaga Religious Records collection consists of the following: East Hill Methodist Episcopal Church, Quarterly Conference Records, 1894-98 East Reservation Church Records (published 1908) First Onondaga Religious Society Records (published 1821) Records of the First Congregational Church of...

Released February 13!

Orange County Cemetery Records

Location
Orange County
Collection Category
Cemetery
Collection Type
Image Browse
Body

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.

Released September 07!

Orleans County Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1869

Location
Orleans County
Collection Category
County Histories
Collection Type
OCR
Creator
Hamilton Child
Body

Access the Gazetteer's title page here or try one of the entry points below: General Contents Abstract from Census Report of 1865 Valuable Recipes Index to Advertisements

Released February 13!

Oswego County Religious Records

Location
Oswego County
Collection Category
Religious Records
Collection Type
OCR
Creator
Royden Woodward Vosburgh
Body

Transcribed genealogy records from churches in Oswego County, New York. Researchers can search these records by text and can browse digital images. The collection page contains a complete list of all congregations available, including waypoint links to images from each church.

Released February 13!

Otsego County Cemetery Records

Location
Otsego County
Collection Category
Cemetery
Collection Type
Image Browse
Body

Transcribed gravestone inscriptions from cemeteries in Otsego 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.

Released February 13!

Otsego County Religious Records

Location
Otsego County
Collection Category
Religious Records
Collection Type
Text & Images
Creator
Royden Woodward Vosburgh
Body

Transcribed genealogy records from churches in Otsego County, New York. Some volumes are searchable, others can only be browsed by image. The collection page contains a complete list of all congregations available, including waypoint links to images from each church.

Released October 24!

Our County and Its People: A Descriptive and Biographical Record of Genesee County, New York

Location
Genesee County
Collection Category
County Histories
Collection Type
OCR
Creator
The Boston History Company
Publishers
Body

This volume covers Genesee County from 1683 to 1899 and includes biographical information, photos and illustrations, military and colonial history, and land and building records. Detailing the history of Genesee County from the time of the early explorers and colonial settlers to the end of the 19th...

Released October 24!

Our County and Its People: A Descriptive and Biographical Record of Genesee County, New York

Location
Genesee County
Collection Category
County Histories
Collection Type
OCR
Creator
The Boston History Company
Publishers
Body

This volume covers Genesee County from 1683 to 1899 and includes biographical information, photos and illustrations, military and colonial history, and land and building records. Detailing the history of Genesee County from the time of the early explorers and colonial settlers to the end of the 19th...

Released November 20!

Pine Family Account Books, Rye, Westchester County, 1794-1832

Location
Westchester County
Collection Category
Account Books
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Collection Type
Image Browse
Body

This collection of manuscript images dated from 1794 to 1832 includes a shop ledger, account book, and cipher book belonging to James Pine of Rye, New York. Shop Ledger of James Pine This title is dated from 1794 and is James Pine's shop ledger. Goods like rum, tobacco, and sugar are frequently...

Released March 06!

Pine Plains, Round Top Lutheran Church, 1760–1788

Location
Dutchess County
Collection Category
Religious Records
Collection Type
Image Browse
Creator
Royden Woodward Vosburgh
Body

This collection contains births and baptisms from 1760 to 1788, and communicants from 1763-1788. Births and Baptisms, 1760 to 1788 Communicants, 1763 to 1788 View the full file. This collection was edited by Royden Woodward Vosburgh.

Released September 21!

Pioneer History of Orleans County, New York

Location
Orleans County
Collection Category
County Histories
Collection Type
OCR
Creator
Arad Thomas
Body

Written by Arad Thomas and printed by H. A. Bruner of Albion, New York, in 1871. Subtitle, in full: "Containing Some Account of the Civil Divisions of Western New York, with Brief Biographical Notices of Early Settlers, and of the Hardships and Privations They Endured, the Organization of the Towns...

Released July 25!

Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase of Western New York

Location
Allegany County
Cattaraugus County
Chautauqua County
Erie County
Genesee County
Livingston County
Monroe County
Ontario County
Niagara County
Orleans County
Schuyler County
Seneca County
Steuben County
Wayne County
Wyoming County
Yates County
Collection Category
Colonial
Collection Type
OCR
Body

Written by O. Turner in 1850, this text surveys major events in the history of Western New York, with remarks on the ancient “remains” in the region, the life and culture of the Seneca Iroquois, the Dutch colonization, the War of 1812 and, finally, the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825. Broken...