BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SELECTED GENEALOGY TITLES AND RESOURCES IN THE RICHMOND MEMORIAL LIBRARY'S COLLECTION
GENERAL SOURCES
Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of New York (Civil
War and Spanish American War soldiers)
Archives, a Guide to the National Archives Field Branches
Center: a Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Capital Area
D.A.R. Lineage Books and D.A.R. Patriot Index
Directory of American Libraries with Genealogy or Local History Collections
Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada
Directory of New York State County and Municipal Historians
Famine Immigrants, 1846-1851
Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives
International Genealogical Index (IGI) for the United States and some European
countries (1988 edition)
International Vital Records Handbook
Lest We Forget: a Guide to Genealogical Research in the Nation's Capital
Library: a Guide to the L.D.S. Family History Library
Library of Congress, a Guide to Genealogical and Historical Research
Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (set incomplete)
New York Area Key
New York in the War of the Rebellion
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index
Ships of Our Ancestors
Source: a Guidebook of Amrican Genealogy
United States Local Histories in the Library of Congress
LOCAL MATERIAL
Beers, F.W.
Gazetteer and Biographical Record of Genesee County, N.Y., 1788-1890
Beers, F.W.
History of Wyoming County, 1841-1880
Bowman, Fred Q.
10,000 Vital Records of Western New York, 1809-1850
Churches of Genesee and Wyoming Counties, 1897
Cooley, LaVerne C.
Tombstone Inscriptions from the Abandoned Cemeteries and Farm Burials of
Genesee County
Foley, Janet Wethy
Early Settlers of Western New York
French, J. H.
Gazetteer of the State of New York, 1860
Genesee County Pioneer Association Record Book
Holland Land Company Records pertaining to Genesee County
Livsey, Karen E.
Western New York Land Transactions, 1804-1824
Western New York Land Transactions, 1825-1835
McCulley, Mary
History of Genesee County, New York 1890-1982
McEvoy, Ruth
History of the City of Batavia, 1915-1985
North, Safford E.
Our County and It's People
Saul's Notes on Genesee County People
Seaver, William
Historical Sketch of the Village of Batavia
Turner, Orsamus
History of the Pioneer Settlement of Phelps and Gorham's Purchase
and Morris' Reserve
Turner, Orsamus
Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase of Western New York
War Dead of Genesee County
CHURCH RECORDS
Attica
Presbyterian Church, 1823-1939
Batavia
Emmanuel Baptist Church, 1884-1939
First Baptist Church, 1834-1939
First Methodist Episcopal Church, 1841-1939
First Presbyterian Church, 1809-1939
St. James Episcopal Church, 1813-1939
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, 1849-1917
St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 1874-1936
Bergen
St. Brigid's Roman Catholic Church, 1871-1919
Stone Church, 1828-1842
LeRoy
First Baptist Church, 1850-1911
First Presbyterian Church, 1812-1885
St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, 1854-1917
United Methodist Church, 1851-1891
Morganville
United Church of Christ, 1817-1956
Oakfield
St. Michael's Episcopal Church, 1857-1922
Sheldon
St. Cecelia's Roman Catholic Church, 1848-1916
Stafford
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 1841-1981
TAX RECORDS
Genesee County Assessment and Tax Rolls, 1838-1979
(excludes the City of Batavia)
FEDERAL CENSUS RECORDS
Genesee and Wyoming Counties:
1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1890 (Civil War
Veterans only), 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930
NEW YORK STATE CENSUS RECORDS
Genesee County:
1875, 1892, 1905, 1915, 1925
INDEX TO NEW YORK STATE FEDERAL CENSUS RECORDS
1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1890
INDEX TO GENESEE COUNTY FEDERAL CENSUS RECORDS
1860, 1870, 1880
NEWSPAPERS
Republican Advocate, 1822-1876
Spirit of the Times, 1830-1902
Progressive Batavian, 1868-1897
Batavia Daily News, 1878-present
Batavia Times, 1902-1945
Some issues are missing. A few of the older newspapers have been indexed for
births, marriages, and deaths.
Batavia Daily News Index
1878-1995
FAMILY GENEALOGIES
The library has many published family genealogies, as well as a vast collection of
files and notes on individual families.
CEMETERY RECORDS
Batavia Cemetery, 1868-1989
Elmwood Cemetery (Batavia), 1872-1938
Grand View Cemetery (Batavia), 1906-1995
Also available are early records for many Genesee County cemteries.
DIRECTORIES, ETC.
Gazetteer and Business Directory of Genesee County, N.Y. for 1869-70
Directory of Persons, Firms, and Indians of Genesee County, N.Y., 1890
Batavia City Directories:
1880, 1883, 1898, 1900, 1913, 1915, 1919 --
Genesee County Directories:
1881, 1888 (Batavia, LeRoy, Oakfield only), 1896
Wyoming County 1870 Directory
Telephone Directories for the Batavia area:
1938--
Yearbooks of Batavia High School: 1913 --
PERIODICALS
Historical Wyoming
New England Historical and Genealogical Register
New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
Tree Talks (Central New York Genealogical Society
Western New York Genealogical Society Journal
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