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DUTCHESS COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY LIBRARY
This list of books and CD-ROMs in the DCGS Library is not a complete list of resources, although it does
include all books and CDs added to the library in the last 10 years. Titles are arranged in alphabetical order by
author within the following subject areas:
Dutchess County Vital Records
Town & County Records
Local History, Places, Maps
Family Histories, Genealogies, Biographies, Compendiums
Family Histories (arranged in order of principal surname covered)
Compendiums
Census
Military Records, Pensions, Loyalists, Etc
New York State (Outside Dutchess County)
Columbia County, NY
Putnam County, NY
New York State - Other Areas
Outside New York State
U.S. - Connecticut & New England
U.S. - Miscellaneous
International
Palatines & Immigration
Bibliographies, Guides, Reference Books, Lineage Societies, Etc
New York
General Reference
DUTCHESS COUNTY VITAL RECORDS
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Baptisms (1716-1824)
Reformed Dutch Church,
Poughkeepsie, NY.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship Publ. This is an
undated transcript.
Dutchess County, NY
Obituaries. 100 Years of
Deaths Beginning 1849.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 2001. This book
consists of the photocopied pages of a
scrapbook of newspaper clippings, primarily
obituaries. Although this means the book has
the basic disadvantage of clippings (the name
and date of the newspaper are seldom included,
although dates were often added by the
unknown person who kept the scrapbook), it
has been indexed.
Index to Baptismal Surnames
in Reformed Churches...
Holland Society of New York, c1990. Index to
baptisms of Reformed churches in the
collection of the Holland Society. Includes
churches in Columbia, Westchester, Dutchess,
Kings, and Ulster counties of New York.
Methodist Church, Glenham,
NY. Record Book
Commencing May 2, 1853.
Pamphlet. List of church members 1853 ,
probationers 1856, members 1865, marriages
1857-1872 (6 marr.), baptisms 1855-1885 (30
baptisms). This material has been published in
The Dutchess quarterly.
Quaker Records: Creek
Monthly Meeting, Dutchess
County, New York.
Abstracts of birth, marriage, death and some
removal records by John Cox Jr. were copied
by Willard Heiss into an alphabetical
arrangement; “some of the script was nearly
indecipherable and was copied as it appeared”.
Quaker Records: Nine
Partners Monthly Meeting,
Dutchess County, New York.
Abstracts of birth, marriage, death and some
removal records by John Cox Jr. and arranged
by Willard Heiss into an alphabetical
arrangement; “some of the script was nearly
indecipherable and was copied as it appeared”.
Quaker Records: Oblong
Monthly Meeting, Dutchess
County, New York.
Abstracts of birth, marriage, death and some
removal records by John Cox Jr. and arranged
by Willard Heiss into an alphabetical
arrangement; “some of the script was nearly
indecipherable and was copied as it appeared”.
Vital Records
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Quaker Records: Oswego
Monthly Meeting, Dutchess
County, New York.
Abstracts of birth, marriage, death and some
removal records by John Cox Jr. and arranged
by Willard Heiss into an alphabetical
arrangement; “some of the script was nearly
indecipherable and was copied as it appeared”.
Quaker Records: Stanford
Monthly Meeting, Dutchess
County, New York.
Abstracts of birth, marriage, death and some
removal records by John Cox Jr. and arranged
by Willard Heiss into an alphabetical
arrangement; “some of the script was nearly
indecipherable and was copied as it appeared”.
Record of Dutch Reform
Church at Fishkill, NY.
Baptisms 1731-1807.
58 photocopied pages of transcript held at
Brett House, Beacon, NY, headquarters of
Melzingah Chapter, DAR. Original transcript
probably done about 1932-33. Located in
Subject File under "Fishkill".
Town of Amenia records
1749+
Births (recorded by Michael Hopkins, town
clerk), Overseers of the poor 1765-1817, town
meetings, ear marks 1762-1795. Photocopies
of original record books. Abstracts were
published in The Dutchess. Located in Subject
Vertical File under “Amenia”.
Baldwin, Evelyn Briggs,
transcriber.
Dutchess County, NY
Cemetery Inscriptions.
(1904-1905).
From the collections of the NYG&B Society
Library. With added index by Beverly Kane.
Sixteen cemeteries, some also in Poucher’s
Old Gravestones of Dutchess, but with
differences.
Braman, Edward. Braman Cemetery
Transcriptions.
Readings by Edward Braman (1833-1907);
transcribed by Jim & Mary Lou Davison.
Braman transcriptions made in the 1880s and
1890s are now in the collection of the
Dutchess County Historical Society. The
Davisons edited entries to show omissions and
differences from Poucher’s transcriptions of
the same cemeteries in Old Gravestones of
Dutchess County.
Vital Records
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Burtch, Luman. The Marriage Book of
Lumon Burtch, Elder of the
Baptist Church of Stanford
at Bangall, Dutchess County,
N.Y.
1805-1821 and 1823-1855. Edited by Carroll
Rikert. Mount Herman, MA: 1945. Record of
over 460 marriages, mostly in the northeastern
part of Dutchess County, but scattered in other
areas also, particularly LaGrange/Fishkill.
Binder holding these pages also include copies
of: Evelyn B. Briggs, “The First Stanford
(Baptist) Church at Bangall, Dutchess Co.,
NY. Early marriage records [before 1805], and
abstracts of tombstone inscriptions”, NYG&B
Record, Vol.37:174-178,314-316; Vol.38:95-
98, 206-208; Vol.40:46-48. Also J. Wilson
Poucher et al, Old Gravestones of Dutchess
County, NY (Poughkeepsie, NY: 1924), p.333-
338.
Chamberlain, Katharine
Meyer.
Clippings from The Fishkill
Standard, Fishkill Landing,
New York and from The
Fishkill Journal, Village of
Fishkill, New York. Vol.3,
1869.
New Orleans: by author, 1996. Includes
Standard: January 2, 1869 - May 1, 1869; July
10, 1869; July 24, 1869 - December 25, 1869;
Journal: January 27, 1869 - May 13, 1869. All
newspaper items that contain a name are
abstracted.
Chamberlain, Katharine
Meyer.
Clippings from the Fishkill
Standard, Fishkill Landing,
New York. Vol.1, 1866-1867.
Rev. and expanded.
New Orleans: by author, 1998. December 7,
1865 to December 28, 1867 with gaps. All
newspaper items that contain a name are
abstracted.
Chamberlain, Katharine
Meyer.
Clippings from the Fishkill
Standard. Vol.4. January 2,
1870 - February 5, 1870,
and February 19, 1870 -
June 24, 1871.
New Orleans: by author, 1997. All newspaper
items that contain a name are included; name
& place indexes .
Chamberlain, Katharine
Meyer.
Clippings from The Fishkill
Standard, Fishkill Landing,
New York Vol.5, 1871-1872.
New Orleans: by author, 1998. Includes July 1,
1871 - July 8, 1871; July 22, 1871 - May 16,
1872; and June 1, 1872 to December 28, 1872.
All newspaper items that contain a name are
abstracted.
Chamberlain, Katharine
Meyer.
Clippings from the Fishkill
Standard, Fishkill Landing,
New York and from The
Fishkill Journal, Village of
Fishkill, New York. Vol.2,
1868.
New Orleans: by author, 1995. Includes
Standard: January 4, 1868 - December 26,
1868; Journal: February 27, 1868 - December
31, 1868. All newspaper items that contain a
name are abstracted.
Chamberlain, Katharine
Meyer.
Death Notices and Other
News from The Fishkill
Journal, Fishkill, New York.
New Orleans: by author, 1993. Abstracted
newspaper items from isolated issues of 1860;
and June, 1862 to July 1865 with gaps.
Vital Records
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Chamberlain, Katharine
Meyer.
Death Notices and Other
News from The Fishkill
Journal, Fishkill, New York.
Expanded edition.
New Orleans: by author, 1998. Includes issues
of May 30, 1860; August 8, 1860; June 12,
1862; June 26, 1862 - July 16, 1862;
September 4, 1862 - May 5, 1864; June 23,
1864 - July 6, 1865. Abstracted newspaper
items.
Chamberlain, Katharine
Meyer.
Marriages and Deaths
Reported in The Fishkill
Standard, Fishkill Landing,
New York, 1874-1877.
Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2000. Abstracts
from a microfilm copy of several scrapbooks in
which newspaper clippings from the weekly
paper of Fishkill Landing were collected. Some
appendices include Revolutionary War era
information that appeared in the newspaper
during the 1876 Centennial.
Fisher, Rev. Floyd. They All Rest Together.
Burial Sites of Early Settlers
- Southern Dutchess and
Putnam Counties.
Publ. by author, c1972.
Herrick, Margaret. Death Notices, Dutchess and
Columbia County, NY 1859-
1918 from Red Hook
Newspapers.
Compiled by John and Clara Losee, transcribed
by Margaret Herrick. Rhinebeck, NY:
Kinship, 1991. Most records are taken from
Red Hook Journal, 1859-1917; with some
additional sources.
Herrick, Margaret E.
(transc.)
Death Notices, Dutchess &
Columbia County, New York
1919-1936 from Red Hook
and Rhinebeck Newspapers.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1992.
Alphabetically arranged with abstracts from
Red Hook papers, and simple listing of age and
death dates from the Rhinebeck paper.
Herrick, Margaret. Marriage Notices, Dutchess
& Columbia Counties, NY
1859-1936.
Kinship, Rhinebeck, NY, c1991. Notices
compiled from Red Hook Journal, Red Hook
Times-Journal, Red Hook Advertiser,
Rhinebeck Gazette.
Herrick, Margaret E.
(transcr.)
The Union Church of
Shookville, the Cemetery,
and Recollections of
Shookville Hamlet.
LaGrangeville, NY, 1990. Pamphlet. Records
of the Union Church include Milan M.E.
church trustees' elections 1834-1899 (many
missing), 1889 Sunday School attendance,
three 1846 baptisms; copy of cemetery
inscriptions as published in Poucher's Old
Gravestones of Dutchess County with some
additional burials; recollections of Burton
Coon about the hamlet.
Vital Records
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Kelly, Arthur C.M. Baptism and Marriage
Records of the Reformed
Churches of Upper Red
Hook, Tivoli, Mellenville and
Linlithgo 1766-1899.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kelly, 1973.
Kelly, Arthur C.M. Baptism Record, St. Paul’s
Lutheran Church of
Wurtemburg, Rhinebeck, NY
1760-1899.
Rhinebeck, NY: by author, 1969.
Kelly, Arthur C.M. Baptisms - 8 Episcopal
Churches Rhinebeck, NY
Area.
Rhinebeck, NY, 1972. "Old Rhinebeck": All
Saint's Chapel, Upper Red Hook; Christ
Church, Red Hook; St. John the Evangelist,
Annadale-On-Hudson; Church of Messiah,
Rhinebeck; St. Paul's, Tivoli; Clarkson
Memorial Chapel, Germantown; Trinity
Church, Tivoli; Church of the Ascension,
Rhinecliff.
Kelly, Arthur C.M. Deaths (Vol. 1) from
Rhinebeck, NY Newspapers.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1978. Also includes
much miscellaneous material from Rhinebeck
newspapers 1846-1899. Vol.2 extracts
Marriages.
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Dutchess County, NY
Probate Records 1787-1865.
Register of Wills and Letters
Testamentary and of
Administration in the
Surrogate's Office,
Poughkeepsie, NY.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1997. Lists wills in
chronological order by testator to 1838 with
reference to published abstracts; and lists
intestate estates and administrators to 1865.
Kelly, Arthur C.M. Early Records of First
Reformed Church of Fishkill,
Dutchess County, N.Y.
1717-1922.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 2006. Transcribed
from 8 original books in the custody of the
Fishkill Church. Includes various lists of
church officers, members, ministers,
subscribers, Bible Society members, Women’s
Missionary Society members, dismissals, notes
from Consistory minutes, a Register of
Licentiates, and recorded deaths 1837-1916.
The numerous “Remarks” have additional
detail.
Vital Records
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Early Records of Fishkill
Landing Methodist Church,
Beacon, Dutchess County,
N.Y. 1862-1933.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 2006. Transcribed
from 5 original books in the custody of Christ
United Methodist Church of Beacon, NY.
Includes various lists of probationers, offices,
class lists, and member lists with many
remarks (usually including marital status) for
the period 1862-1933.
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Early Records of Matteawan
Methodist Church, Beacon,
Dutchess County, N.Y. 1862-
1920.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 2006. Transcribed
from 8 original books in the custody of Christ
United Methodist Church of Beacon, NY
covering membership records from 1862-1920.
Includes lists of probationers, offices, class
lists, members with many remarks (usually
including marital status).
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Early Records of St. Paul’s
(Zion’s) Lutheran Church,
Red Hook, Dutchess County,
N.Y. 1738-1954.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 2006. Transcribed
from 3 original books in the custody of the Red
Hook church; covers Members, 1738-1954;
Confirmands, 1846-1960; Officers, 1846-1881;
Communicants, 1872-1941.
Kelly, Arthur C.M. Marriages (Vol. 2) from
Rhinebeck, NY Newspapers.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1978. Also includes
much miscellaneous material from Rhinebeck
newspapers 1846-1899. Vol.1 extracts Deaths.
Kelly, Arthur C.M. Marriage Notices from
Dutchess County, NY
Newspapers 1826-1851.
Extracted by Helen W. Reynolds. Rhinebeck,
NY: Kelly, 1983. From file cards in Adriance
Memorial Library, Poughkeepsie, NY.
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Peter J. Schultz Account
Book 1824-1846. Rhinebeck,
Dutchess County, New York.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1999. Lists debits
and credits with names.
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Records of Lutheran
Churches of Rhinebeck,
Dutchess County, NY Area.
Members, Confirmands, &
Family Lists 1734-1889.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 2001. These name
lists cover varying time periods, for the
Lutheran Churches of St. Peter’s, St. Paul’s
(Zion’s), St. Paul’s Wurtemburg, and Third
Lutheran.
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Red Hook Undertaker’s
Records, Dutchess County,
New York.1874-1936.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1999. Lists death
date, name, age and amount charged by the
undertaker. Data abstracted from account book
of Stephen V.R. Burnett, undertaker & cabinet
maker.
Kelly, Arthur C. M. The Remarkable Records of
Rev. Gideon Bostwick 1770-
1793. Great Barrington, MA.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1988. Bostwick’s
ministry in the Episcopal Church covered 4
states including a few in Pine Plains of
Dutchess County. [Call Number 974/K]
Vital Records
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Rhinebeck, New York Death
Records of the 18th and 19th
Centuries.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1992. A complete
reading of all stones at 7 Rhinebeck cemeteries
(with some other scattered stones), death
records of 8 town churches, and records of lot
owners at the largest town cemetery.
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Rhinebeck Precinct Account
Book 1783-1788. Rhinebeck,
Dutchess County, New York.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1999. Lists debits
and credits with names.
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Stephen V.R. Burnett
Account Book 1865-1882.
Cabinet Maker &
Undertaker, Red Hook,
Dutchess County, New York.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1999. Lists names
of those who had accounts with the cabinet
maker. Items purchased are not noted unless
they relate to coffins or funerals.
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Vital Records of First
Reformed Church of Fishkill,
Dutchess County, NY
1731-1915.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 2006. Transcribed
from 8 original books in the custody of the
Fishkill Church. Baptisms & marriages
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Vital Records of Fishkill
Landing Methodist Church,
Beacon, Dutchess County,
N.Y. 1860-1962.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 2006. Transcribed
from 5 original books in the custody of Christ
United Methodist Church of Beacon, NY.
Includes baptisms of children and adults 1860-
1951; marriages 1860-1953; and cemetery plot
owners, circa 1879.
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Vital Records of Matteawan
Methodist Church, Beacon,
Dutchess County, N.Y. 1860-
1962.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 2006. Paper, 129pp.,
indexed. Transcribed from 8 original books in
the custody of Christ United Methodist Church
of Beacon, NY. Covers baptisms of children
and adults 1861-1961, marraiges 1860-1962,
and deaths 1881-1884, 1931.
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Vital Records of the
Methodist Churches of Red
Hook, Elizaville and Milan,
Dutchess County, New York.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 2000. Covers about
1860 to 1904 - baptisms (mostly adult),
marriages, deaths, and lists of members for 3
small churches.
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Vital Records of the
Methodist Churches of
Rhinebeck, Dutchess County,
NY (Hillside and Riverside)
1856-1907.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1999. Transcription
of record book includes baptisms 1856-1907,
marriages 1858-1894, probationers,
membership lists and notes from minutes.
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Vital Records, The Reformed
Dutch Church, Hyde Park,
New York 1810-1899.
Rhinebeck, NY: 1979. Also called "Church of
Stoutsbourgh". Abstracts of baptism, marriage
and death records, and memberships, arranged
by date.
Vital Records
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Vital Records of St. Paul’s
(Zion’s) Lutheran Church,
Red Hook, Dutchess County,
N.Y. 1803-1968.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 2006. Transcribed
from 3 original books in the custody of the Red
Hook church; covers Baptisms, 1900-1950;
Marriages, 1900 - 1950; Deaths, 1803-1968.
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Vital Records of Smithfield
Presbyterian Church,
Amenia, Dutchess County,
NY 1787-1942.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 2004. Includes
Baptisms 1810-1937, Marriages 1823-1891,
Deaths 1890-1893, Members 1787-1942.
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Vital Records of First
Presbyterian Church,
Millerton, Dutchess County,
NY [Congregational Church
of North East] 1829-1950.
Rhinebeck: Kinship, 2004. Includes Baptisms
1830-1891, 1907-1946; Marriages 1860-1892,
1907-1946; Deaths 1907-1945.
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Vital Records of First
Presbyterian Church,
Amenia, Dutchess County,
NY 1749-1956.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 2004. Includes
Baptisms 1749-1955, Marriages 1865-1955,
members.
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Vital Records of First
Presbyterian Church, Pine
Plains, Dutchess County, NY
1839-1978.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 2004. Includes
Baptisms 1911-1975, Marriages 1912-1965,
Deaths 1912-1971, Members 1839-1978.
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Vital Records of South
Amenia Presbyterian
Church, Wassaic, Dutchess
County, NY 1756-1989.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 2004. Pt. 1. Includes
Baptisms 1759-1989, Marriages 1756-1989,
Deaths 1937-1989; [gap 1785-1815].
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Vital Records of South
Amenia Presbyterian
Church, Wassaic, Dutchess
County, NY 1777-1989.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 2004. Pt. 2.
Poucher, J. Wilson Old Gravestones of Dutchess
County, New York.
Poughkeepsie, NY: 1924 (Photoduplication).
19,000 inscriptions.
Reynolds, Helen
Wilkinson.
Notices of marriages and
deaths, about 4,000 in
number: published in
newspapers printed at
Poughkeepsie, New York,
1778-1825.
Poughkeepsie, N.Y. : Dutchess County
Historical Society, 1930.
Vital Records
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Reynolds, Helen
Wilkinson.
The Records of Christ
Church, Poughkeepsie, NY.
Vol.II.
Retyped, reprinted, and fully indexed by Mrs.
Jean D. Worden. Anundsen Publ, 1994.
Originally printed in 2 vol. Vol. 2 included all
vital records of the church to 1916. Coded
index added and original transcript completely
retyped.
Sincerbox, Henry. Bible of Henry Sincerbox. Family Record recorded in pages of original
1848 Bible. The information on these pages
was published in The Dutchess in Vol.5 #4
(Spring, 1978). Related families include:
Sincerbox, Stone, Vanderburgh, Lane.
Smith, Martha Z. (comp.) Hedding Methodist Church,
Poughkeepsie, NY. Births
and Marriages 1853-1861.
Pamphlet.
Stevens, Mark. Gravestone Inscriptions of
Old St. Joachim's Cemetery.
Pamphlet. Matteawan, now Beacon, New
York. Transcribed by Life Scout and members
of Boy Scout Troop #24, St. Joachim's Church,
Beacon, NY, 1993. Alphabetized computer
listing.
Tower, Maria, ed. The Records of the Reformed
Dutch Church of New
Hackensack, Dutchess Co,
NY.
Kinship, 1993. Reprint of 2 parts originally
published 1932 by Dutchess County Historical
Society – Baptismal Registers 1757-1906,
Marriage Registers 1765-1906.
Tower, Maria, ed. The Records of the Reformed
Dutch Church of New
Hackensack, Dutchess
County, New York.
Clearfield, 2002. Reprint in reduced print of
1932 Dutchess County Historical Society
publication. Contents include chapters on the
beginnings of the church, Baptismal Register
(1757-1905), Marriage Register (1765-1906),
list of Members and Communicants (1766-
1906), Register of Officers (1765-1906) and
Minutes of the Consistory (1765-1856), Index
of Pews, Gifts from Peter and Jacob Van
Bunschoten, and “Sundry Accounts”.
Van Alystyne, L. Burying Grounds of Sharon,
Connecticut, Amenia and
North East, New York.
Amenia, NY: Walsh, Griffen & Hoysradt,
1903. Records stones in 30 burial grounds.
Van Alystyne, L. Burying Grounds of Sharon,
Connecticut, Amenia and
North East, New York.
Reprint 1983, Heart of the Lakes Publishing
with added index. (Orig. 1903) Records stones
in 30 burial grounds.
Vital Records
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Van Vliet, George S.,
compiler.
Scrapbook of Dutchess
County, NY People and
Places 1930-1960.
Photocopied pages of 2 green linen-bound
volumes in the Dutchess County Historical
Society collection; newspaper clippings and
articles about local persons, especially
clergyman and physicians. 294 pp. Located in
Subject Vertical File in folder labeled
“Dutchess County, NY - Scrapbook 1930-
1960 [Van Vliet]” Accessed by: Kelly, Arthur
C.M. An Index to Scrapbook of Dutchess
County, NY People and Places 1930-1960.
Rhinebeck: Kinship, 2001.
Worden, Jean D. First and Second Dutch
Reformed Church,
Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, NY. 1716-1912.
Copied, typed and indexed by Mrs. Jean D.
Worden, 1992. Includes all extant records of
the Reformed churches from founding in 1716-
including baptisms, marriages, and deaths.
Copied from microfilm in NY State Library.
First Reformed - baptisms, marr., deaths, and
members (1765-1857) all with gaps; 2nd
Reformed - baptisms & marr. 1849-1912,
deaths 1849-1888.
Vital Records
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
CD-ROM Marriage Index: Selected
Areas of New York, 1639-
1916.
Family Tree Maker’s Family Archives CD-
ROM #401. Genealogy.com, 2000. Partial
listing of approx. 100 record sources:
Reynold’s Notices of Marriages &
Deaths...Newspapers 1778-1825; St. John's
Low Dutch Reformed Church of Upper Red
Hook: 1795-1899; St. Paul's Lutheran
(Rhinebeck Germ. Reformed), Red Hook:
1756-1899; Christ Episcopal Church, Red
Hook: 1855-1898; Reformed Church (Red
Church), Tivoli, Red Hook: 1795-1899; St.
Paul's Episcopal Church, Tivoli: 1817-1899;
Trinity Episcopal Church, Tivoli: 1856-1897;
Sylvania Lutheran Church, Barrytown:
1794-1899; St. John Evangelist (Episcopal),
Annandale-on-Hudson: 1855-1899; Church of
Ascension (Episcopal), Rhinecliff: 1871-1898;
St. Peter's Lutheran (Stone Church),
Rhinebeck: 1746-1899; St. Paul's Lutheran,
Wurtemburg, Rhinebeck: 1746-1899; Third
Lutheran Church, Rhinebeck: 1746-1899;
Reformed Church, Rhinebeck: 1731-1899;
Marriages ... from Rhinebeck Newspapers,
1846-1899; Reformed Church, Hyde Park:
1810-1899; Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie:
1746-1824; Christ Church (Episcopal),
Poughkeepsie: 1766-1916; First Presbyterian
Church, New Hamburg: 1811-1862; Reformed
Church, New Hackensack: 1757-1906;
Remarkable Records of Rev. Gideon Bostwick;
Nine Partners Monthly Meeting (Quaker):
1869-1898; Oblong Monthly Meeting
(Quaker): 1744-1852.
CD-ROM Marriage Index: New York
#2, 1740s-1880s.
Family Tree Maker’s Family Archives CD-
ROM #402. Broderbund, 1997. Collection of
marriage records gathered by Nancie Davis
from local New York church records, censuses,
vital records, magazines, journals, and
newspapers, including Dutchess County
sources such as The Red Church at Madalin in
Red Hook, St. Peter’s Catholic Church in
Poughkeepsie, the First and Second Reformed
Church in Poughkeepsie, Presbyterian
churches in Poughkeepsie, New Hamburg and
Rumbout, Baptist marriages of Elder Lumon
Burtch, Poughkeepsie newspaper notices, etc.
The original marriage records may contain
more information than indexed on the CD.
Vital Records
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
CD-ROM New York Births &
Baptisms: Southeast Region
1660-1916.
Ancestry.com. MyFamily.com, 1999.
“Compiled from New York church registers
from the counties of Dutchess, Greene,
Putnam, Rockland, Ulster and Westchester by
Arthur C.M. Kelly. This CD contains details
on more than 220,000 individuals.” Partial
listing: Kingston Baptismal Register
1660-1809; St Paul’s Lutheran Church, West
Camp 1708-1906; Zion Evangelical Lutheran
Church, Athens 1704-1918; Gilead
Presbyterian Church [Putnam County]
1757-1857. Union Corners, Jackson Corners,
Shookville, & West Gallatin 1865-1904;
"Round Top" Church Bethel, Pine Plains
1760-1805. St Paul’s (Zion’s) Lutheran
Church, Red Hook 1730-1904; Reformed
Churches of Upper Red Hook, Tivoli,
Mellenville & Linlithgo 1785-1911; St Peter’s
Lutheran Church, Rhinebeck (Stone Church)
1733-1899; Reformed Church, Rhinebeck
1731-1899; St Paul’s Lutheran Church of
Wurtemburg [Rhinebeck] 1760-1902; Eight
Episcopal Congregations of Old Rhinebeck
1816-1899; Third Evangelical Lutheran
Church, Rhinebeck 1843-1899. Poughkeepsie
Reformed Church Baptisms 1716-1824; Christ
Church [Poughkeepsie, Episcopal] 1766-1916;
Poughkeepsie Presbyterian Church Baptisms,
Rumbout 1750-1764; Late Presbyterian
Church at Brinckerhoffville 1749-1869;
Quaker Oblong Monthly Meeting 1759-1860;
Quaker Nine Partners Monthly Meeting
1758-1792, 1810-1876; First Presbyterian
Church of Pleasant Valley, 1793-1830; St
Paul’s Episcopal Church of Pleasant Valley
1837-1899; Freedom Plains Presbyterian
Church 1840-1890; Staatsburg Methodist
Church 1877-1914; Reformed Dutch Church,
Hyde Park 1810-1900; First Presbyterian
Church, New Hamburg (Wappingers Creek)
1811-1862; First Presbyterian Church,
Wappingers Falls 1870-1915; Hopewell Dutch
Reformed Church, Hopewell, Township of
East Fishkill 1758-1910; Reformed Dutch
Church of New Hackensack 1757-1906;
Beacon Reformed Dutch Church 1819-1876;
Beacon First Presbyterian Church 1847-1898.
TOWN & COUNTY RECORDS
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Church Directory, August
1977.
The Community United Methodist Church,
Hackensack Rd, Poughkeepsie. Pamphlet.
Alphabetical listing of church members with
name (including spouse & children), address
and telephone.
Official Minutes of the
Common Council,
Poughkeepsie, NY.
1922.
Old Miscellaneous Records
of Dutchess County
(The Second Book of the Supervisors and
Assessors). Higginson reprint, 2004. (Orig.
published by Vassar Brothers’ Institute,
Poughkeepsie, NY, 1909). Old Miscellaneous
Records (from 1720s and 1730s), Marks of
Animals, Apprentices Contracts, Wills,
Administration, Roads, Elections,
Assessments, Supervisors Proceedings,
Treasurers receipts and Great Nine Partners
Patent.
Polk's Poughkeepsie City
Directory. 1960. Including
Arlington and Fairview.
R.L. Polk, Publishers, 1960. Sections include
index to advertisers, names of residents in
alphabetical order, householders by street, and
classified advertising.
Winchell's Wappingers Falls
Business Directory and
Hand book 1874-1875.
Photocopied pages, pamphlet size. [FHC
collection]
Buck, Clifford M. Dutchess County, NY Tax
Lists 1718-1787.
With Rombout Precinct by William Willis
Reese. Edited by Arthur and Nancy Kelly.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1990. Index to extant
colonial tax lists for Dutchess County,
arranged alphabetically within the civil
divisions that collected the taxes (wards,
precincts, towns).
Buck, Clifford & William
McDermott, comp.
Eighteenth Century
Documents of the Nine
Partners Patent, Dutchess
County, NY.
Vol.10, Collections of the Dutchess County
Historical Society. Baltimore: Gateway Press,
1979. Includes deeds 1718-1800, mortgages
1754-1800, and estates (wills) to 1800
including those in Albany and New York
counties; tax lists (including 1801) and
proceedings & minutes of the Nine Partners.
Vital Records
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Dern, John P., ed. The Albany Protocol.
Wilhelm Christoph
Berkenmeyer's Chronicle of
Lutheran Affairs in New
York Colony, 1731-1750.
Translated by Simon Hart & Sibrandina
Geertrud Hart-Reememan. Camden, ME:
Picton Pr, 1992. Minutes of Church Committee
meetings with documents relating to problems
of the day. Appendix 6 includes genealogies
of Christiaan, Freese, Halenbek, Herdyk,
Staats, Van Hoesen, Van Loon, Van Schaayk,
and Wingate families. [Call Number 974.7/D]
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Rhinebeck Road Records,
Dutchess County, NY 1722-
1857.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 2001. Arranged by
date, this book shows the development of
roads as they were added to the town -
including who requested the road, a description
of where a road runs, names of people who
lived at either end of the road section and
names of path masters and/or Overseers of
Highways.
Reese, William Willis,
compiler.
Eighteenth Century Records
of the portion of Dutchess
County New York that was
included in Rombout
Precinct and the original
Town of Fishkill. Presenting
Historical Source-Material
Regarding Land and People.
Edited by Helen Wilkinson Reynolds.
Poughkeepsie, NY: 1938. Collections of the
Dutchess County Historical Society, Vol. VI.
[photocopy]. Material includes alphabetical
list of Fishkill tax-payers 1717-1779, abstracts
of deeds (1718-1800), mortgages (1754-1800),
and estates (to 1805), road acts (to 1788).
Includes an index to names and separate
indexes to miscellaneous references to places,
bridges, mills, burying grounds, etc.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
ed.
Records of Crum Elbow
Precinct, Dutchess County,
New York, 1738-1761.
Together with Records of Charlotte Precinct
1762-1785, Records of Clinton Precinct 1786-
1788, and Records of the Town of Clinton
1789-1799. Dutchess County Historical
Society, 1940. Collections of the Dutchess
County Historical Society, Vol.VII. Includes a
map of Nine Partners Patent and outline maps
of present townships located within the various
precincts. Contents include ear marks and
brands 1739-1795, minutes of annual meetings
1738-1799, and transcripts of 19 deeds and
powers of attorney 1739-1753.
Town & county records
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
ed.
Records of the Town of Hyde
Park, Dutchess County.
Hyde Park, NY: 1928. Collections of the
Dutchess County Historical Society, Vol. III.
[photocopy of original publication]. Material
includes minutes of Hyde Park town meetings
1821-1875; information about the Stoutsburg
Religious Society, Regina Coeli Catholic
Chrurch and the Baptist Society; and
information and vital records from 3 churches -
the Reformed Church of Hyde Park, Methodist
Episcopal and St. James [Episcopal] Church.
LOCAL HISTORY, PLACES, MAPS
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Clinton Volunteer Fire
Department 50th
Anniversary History Book,
1931-1981.
Includes listings of officers elected each year
for the Town of Clinton volunteer fire
department. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Community: Birthplace of
Popular Consent. A Salute
to New York's Bicentennial
Towns.
Shirley A. Rice, editor. Published for the New
York State Commission on the Bicentennial of
the US Constition, 1988. Heart of the Lakes
Publishing, Interlaken, NY. [Call Number
974.7/C]
From English Colony to
Sovereign State. Essays on
the American Revolution in
Dutchess County, Province
of New York.
“John Jay and the Revolution in New York”;
“The Jay Family in Fishkill (now East Fishkill)
1776-1781"; “Listing of Elected Deputies to
the Fourth Provincial Congress from the
Counties of the Province of New York”; “A
Government to Form, the Story of Dutchess
County and the Political Upheaval in
Revolutionary New York”. [FHC collection]
[Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Historic Markers &
Monuments in Dutchess.
c1990. A Preliminary Inventory. Text of
known markers with maps of location of the
markers. [FHC collection] [Call Number
974.77/Dut]
The Histories of Dutchess
County’s Predominantly
Black Churches.
Their Histories as Told in Their Words.
Compiled by Bethel Missionary Baptist
Church, Black History Committee,
Wappingers Falls, NY, 1998. Gives a brief
history of 18 churches, most established in the
second half of the 20th century. [Call Number
974.77/Dut]
Municipal Historians’ Book
of Dutchess County.
Tercentenary Edition 1683-1983. [1983?]
Brief highlights of each town’s history;
Committees and programs of Tercentenary
events. [FHC collection] [Call Number
974.77/Dut]
Rhinebeck, Dutchess County,
NY.
Rhinebeck Chamber of Commerce, 1972.
Many photos, brief text of history and
contemporary Rhinebeck. Includes many
business ads. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Local histories, maps
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Transformations of an
American County. Dutchess
County, New York 1683-
1983.
Papers of the Tercentenary Conference April
23 and 24, 1983. 1986. [FHC collection] 24
essays focusing on political and social history
of the county. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Ahlquist, Roy. A Postal History of the Town
of Milan.
Published by author, Nov 1992, revised Nov.
1995. Pamphlet. Name and location of all
post offices within the town and brief
biographical information on postmasters.
[Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Ahlquist, Roy. A Postal History: Town of
Northeast.
Published by author, October, 1992. Pamphlet.
Name and location of all post offices within
the town and brief biographical information on
postmasters. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Ahlquist, Roy. Town of Amenia, NY. Post
Offices, Postmasters and
Other Notes.
Published by author, March, 1992. Pamphlet.
Name and location of all post offices within
the town and brief biographical information on
postmasters. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Ahlquist, Roy. Town of Clinton, Dutchess
County, NY. Post Offices,
Postmasters and Other
Postal Notes.
Published by author, May, 1993. Pamphlet.
Name and location of all post offices within
the town and brief biographical information on
postmasters. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Ahlquist, Roy. Town of Dover, NY. Post
Offices, Postmasters and
Other Notes.
Published by author, April, 1993. Pamphlet.
Name and location of all post offices within
the town and brief biographical information on
postmasters. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Ahlquist, Roy. Town of East Fishkill: A
Postal History.
Published by author, March, 1995. Pamphlet.
Name and location of all post offices within
the town and brief biographical information on
postmasters; includes time the town was still
part of Fishkill. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Ahlquist, Roy. The Town of Fishkill: A
Postal History.
Published by the author, Oct., 1994. Pamphlet.
Name and location of all post offices within
the town and brief biographical information on
postmasters. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Ahlquist, Roy. The Town of Hyde Park: A
Postal History.
Published by author, August, 1993. Pamphlet.
Name and location of all post offices within
the town and brief biographical information on
postmasters. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Local histories, maps
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Ahlquist, Roy. Town of LaGrange. A Postal
History.
Published by author, April, 1994. Pamphlet.
Name and location of all post offices within
the town and brief biographical information on
postmasters. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Ahlquist, Roy. The Town of Pawling: A
Postal History.
Published by author, June, 1994. Pamphlet.
Name and location of all post offices within
the town and brief biographical information on
postmasters. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Ahlquist, Roy. Town of Pine Plains, NY.
Post Offices, Postmasters
and Other Notes.
Published by author, January, 1993. Pamphlet.
Name and location of all post offices within
the town and brief biographical information on
postmasters. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Ahlquist, Roy. The Town of Pleasant
Valley: A Postal History.
Published by author, March, 1994. Pamphlet.
Name and location of all post offices within
the town and brief biographical information on
postmasters. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Ahlquist, Roy. Town of Poughkeepsie, NY.
Post Offices, Postmasters
and Other Notes.
Published by author, May, 1992. Pamphlet.
Name and location of all post offices within
the town and brief biographical information on
postmasters. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Ahlquist, Roy. Town of Red Hook, NY. Post
Offices, Postmasters and
Other Notes.
Published by author, December, 1992.
Pamphlet. Name and location of all post
offices within the town and brief biographical
information on postmasters. [Call Number
974.77/Dut]
Ahlquist, Roy. Town of Rhinebeck, NY. Post
Offices, Postmasters and
Other Postal Notes.
Published by author, May, 1993. Pamphlet.
Name and location of all post offices within
the town and brief biographical information on
postmasters. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Ahlquist, Roy. The town of Union Vale: A
Postal History.
Published by author, January, 1995. Pamphlet.
Name and location of all post offices within
the town and brief biographical information on
postmasters. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Bahn, Gilbert S. American Place Names of
Long Ago.
A Re-publication of the Index to Cram’s
Unrivaled Atlas of the World as Based on the
Census of 1890. Baltimore: Gen. Pub. Co,
c1998. Reprint (maps not included) with every
place name listed in the missing 1890 census;
even small, unofficial place names identified
by the county in which they were located.
[Call Number 912/B]
Local histories, maps
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Biever, Duane. Old Poughkeepsie, New York
- 1865.
A history of a city and its lifestyle at the end of
the Civil War, intended to give a feel for the
life of the average citizen, much of it based on
newspaper resources. [Call Number
974.77/Dut]
Bruno, Maryann and
Elizabeth A. Daniels.
Vassar College. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publ, c2001. The
College History Series. 128pp, laminated
softcover, photos. Photographic history of the
college with extensive captions covers the
period from the founding of the college in
1861 to the present. [Call Number
974.77/Dut]
Carr ,Clare O’Neill. A Brief History of Red Hook. NY: Wise Family Trust, c2001. Brief text with
copious photographs and illustrations cover a
variety of topics such as original settlements
and growth; slavery; Margaret Beekman
Livingston; the great estates and their legacy;
some individual communities; the nineteenth
century and the twentieth century. [Call
Number 974.77/Dut]
Cassidy, Henry. The Rombout Patent. Dutchess County Historical Society, 1985.
Collections of the Dutchess County Historical
Society Vol. XI. Pamphlet “Including
biographical information on the two original
purchasers, Francis Rombout and Gulian
Verplanck.” [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
DiArpino, Carmen. A History of the Town of
Washington and Millbrook.
1988. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Fishkill Historical
Society.
Around Fishkill. Dover, NH: Arcadia Publ., 1996. Images of
America series. Photographic history of the
town with very brief text and expanded
captions covering about the 1850's to the
1950's. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Fredericksen, Beatrice. The Role of Dutchess County
During the American
Revolution.
A Dutchess County American Revolution
Bicentennial Project, c1976. Pamphlet. [Call
Number 974.77/Dut]
French, J.H. Historical and Statistical
Gazetteer of New York State.
Interlaken, NY: Heart of the Lakes Publishing,
1980 (Orig. publ. 1860). Arranged
alphabetically by county, then town within the
county. Includes geological description, history
of formation & settlement, churches, etc. [Call
Number 974.7/F]
Local histories, maps
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
All-Name Index to the 1860
Gazetteer of New York State
by J.H. French.
And a listing of Geographic Names Missing in
the Original Index. Interlaken, NY: Heart of
the Lakes Publ., 1993. [Call Number 974.7/F]
Ghee, Joyce C., and Joan
Spencer.
Harlem Valley Pathways
through Pawling, Dover,
Amenia, North East, and
Pine Plains.
Images of America Series. Charleston, SC:
Arcadia Publishing, c1998. [Call Number
974.77/Dut]
Ghee, Joyce C. & Joan
Spence.
Poughkeepsie 1898-1998; A
Century of Change.
Dover, NH: Arcadia Publ., 1999. Images of
America series. Photographic history of the
town with very brief text and expanded
captions covering the 20th century. [Call
Number 974.77/Dut]
Ghee, Joyce C. & Joan
Spence.
Poughkeepsie: Halfway Up
the Hudson.
Dover, NH: Arcadia Publ., 1997. Images of
America series. Photographic history of the
town with very brief text and expanded
captions covering about the 1850's to the
1950's. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Hasbrouck, Frank. The History of Dutchess
County, New York.
Poughkeepsie, NY, 1909 [facsimile reprint
2005 by Higginson Book Company]. Typical
arrangement of a county history - chapters
covering early history and settlement, the
American Revolution and the Civil War, the
law and medical professions, some chapters on
the Catholic Church and Quakers, a separate
chapter on the history of each town and a 100-
page biographical and genealogical section.
There are numerous photos and several maps,
including a fold-out map of the Albany post
road circa 1820 (map is shelved in Subject
Vertical File under “Maps”). [Call Number
974.77/Dut]
Herrick, Margaret E. Early settlements in
Dutchess County, New York.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1994. A compilation
of the "Why...?" stories by Poughkeepsie
Journal writer Helen Myers. [Call Number
974.77/Dut]
Humphrey, Thomas J. Land and Liberty. Hudson
Valley Riots in the Age of
Revolution.
DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press,
c2004. A scholarly history of tenant / landlord
violence and the manorial system in the
Hudson Valley from the 1750s through the
1790s. It includes descriptions of the
communities involved, tactics of tenants which
included challenging the owners’ Indian-
related title to the lands, and Revolutionary
War politics. [Call Number 974.7/H]
Local histories, maps
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Huntting, Isaac. History of Little Nine
Partners of North East
Precinct, and Pine Plains,
New York, Duchess County.
Rhinebeck, NY: Palatine Reprint, 1974 [orig.
publ. Amenia, NY, 1897]. Area of Little Nine
Partner Patent of 1706 included present towns
of Milan, North East & Pine Plains. [Call
Number 974.77/Dut]
Kelly, Nancy V. A Brief History of Rhinebeck. NY: Wise Family Trust, c2001. Brief text with
copious photographs and illustrations cover a
variety of topics such as original settlements
and growth; slavery; transportation, the great
estates, and the Gilded Age; the effect of the
various wars including the American
Revolution, Civil War and World Wars;
education, churches and Rhinebeck today.
[Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Koehler, Linda C. Dutchess County, NY
Churches and Their
Records: An Historical
Directory.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1994. Alphabetical
listing of churches that existed in Dutchess
County before 1900; includes brief church
history and information on their records. [Call
Number 974.77/Dut]
Leonard, Roger M. The Red Church. 1990. Detailed history of the church
congregation, the building and the cemetery in
the town of Red Hook, and its survival from
1766 to the present. No vital records included
in the text. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Lukacs, George H. Poughkeepsie Potters and
the Plague.
Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publ., 2001. Images
of America series. 128pp, laminated softcover,
photos. Photographic history of the stoneware
pottery industry in Poughkeepsie mostly
through expanded captions, majority of photos
are of stoneware jugs. [Call Number
974.77/Dut]
Marquez, Margaret
Logan.
Hyde Park on the Hudson. Dover, NH: Arcadia Publ., 1996. Images of
America series. Photographic history of the
town with very brief text and expanded
captions covering about the 1850's to the
1950's. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
McDermott, William P.,
ed.
Clinton, Dutchess County,
NY. A History of a Town.
Clinton Corners, NY: Clinton Historical
Society, c1987. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Moffett, Glendon L. To Poughkeepsie and back.
The story of the
Poughkeepsie - Highland
Ferry.
Fleischmann’s, NY: Purple Mountain Press,
1994. Pamphlet. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Local histories, maps
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Morse, Howard H. Historic Old Rhinebeck.
Echoes of Two Centuries.
Rhinebeck, NY, 1908. [facsimile reprint 2005
by Higginson Book Company]. Chapters
cover subjects such as the Palatines, roads,
churches, schools, river travel, violets, etc.
Appendix includes items such as a precinct
census of 1740, slave census of 1755, 1790
federal census, deeds and patents, signers of
the “Revolutionary Pledge”. [Call Number
974.77/Dut]
Murphy, Robert J. &
Denise D. Van Buren.
Historic Beacon. Images of America Series. Charleston, SC:
Arcadia Publishing, c1998. [Call Number
974.77/Dut]
Nestler, Harold, comp. A Bibliography of New York
State Communities.
Third edition. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books,
1990. About 2500 citations to books and
pamphlets emphasizing local history of smaller
communities, towns and counties of NY State.
[Call Number 016/Nes]
Platt, Edmund. The Eagle’s History of
Poughkeepsie from the
Earliest Settlements 1683 to
1905.
Poughkeepsie, NY: Platt & Platt, 1905.
Chronological history of the city includes brief
(30 page) Appendix with biographical sketches
of important citizens. [Call Number
974.77/Dut]
Reed, Newton. Early History of Amenia with
Impressions of Amenia by
Dewey Barry.
Amenia: Harlem Valley Times, 1985. Fourth
edition. Reed’s Early History was originally
published in 1875. The “Impressions of
Amenia” section is a collection of articles
written by Dewey Barry on Amenia history
with a late 20th century perspective. [Call
Number 974.77/Dut]
Remington, Gordon L. New York State Towns,
Villages, and Cities. A Guide
to Genealogical Sources.
NEHGS, 2002. In column format, it gives the
name of the locality (current or former), its
county, legal status (town, village or city), date
of formation, whether any published town,
church or cemetery histories and records are
available, and whether Town Clerk’s Registers
re Civil War enlistment bounties are available
(they include much genealogically significant
information). [Call Number 974.7/R]
Reynolds, Helen
Wilkinson.
Dutchess County Doorways
and Other Examples of
Period-Work in Wood 1730-
1830 with Accounts of
Houses, Places & People.
NY: William Farquhar Payson, 1931. Focus is
on architectural details of early homes, but
includes much family information about house
owners. Half of book consists of black & white
plates of houses and details. [Call Number
974.77/Dut]
Local histories, maps
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Reynolds, Helen
Wilkinson.
Poughkeepsie; The Origin
and Meaning of the Word.
Poughkeepsie, NY: 1924. Collections of the
Dutchess County Historical Society, Vol.1.
98pp, index, maps, photos. [photocopy of
original publication]. This small volume is
packed with information about the origins of
the name of Poughkeepsie based mostly on
extensive research in deeds and land records.
There is a considerable collection of material
on place names with descriptions of where they
apply (using 1924 landmark references) as well
as original settlers in the town and city of
Poughkeepsie; discusses Dutch, Indian and
English terms. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Rozell, Edwin H. Historical Sketch of
Poughkeepsie Township
1609-1949.
[Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Skinner, Willa. Signal Fires in the
Highlands. A History of
Fishkill, NY 1683-1873.
Town of Fishkill, 1978. [Call Number
974.77/Dut]
Smith, Edward M. Documentary History of
Rhinebeck in Dutchess
County, NY.
Rhinebeck, NY: Palatine, 1974. (Orig. publ.
1881) "Embracing biographical sketches and
genealogical records of our first families and
first settlers with a history of its churches and
other public institutions." [Call Number
974.77/Dut]
Smith, Edward M. Kipsbergen in Dutchess
County:
Its History, Location and Boundaries; Its
Founders and Their Families Through Many
Generations. 1894. Transcribed, indexed &
reprinted by Margaret E. Herrick, 1990. Short
history of Rhinebeck area with family histories
of Kip, Van Wagenen, Roosa, Osterhout, Van
Etten & Heermance families. [Call Number
974.77/Dut]
Smith, James H. History of Duchess County,
New York: with illustrations
and biographical sketches of
some of its prominent men
and pioneers.
Interlaken, N.Y.: Heart of the Lakes Publ.,
1980. (Reprint of original: Syracuse, NY,
1882). [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
Local histories, maps
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Smith, Philip H. General History of Duchess
County from 1609 to 1876
inclusive.
Published by the author, Pawling, NY, 1877.
Appendix A - brief sketches of Putnam County
towns; Appendix B - lists, mostly of Signers of
1775 Association. Brief genealogies for Cole,
Belden, Pearce, Akin, Vanderburgh, Brill,
Ferris, Lattin, Holmes, Haynes. [Call Number
974.77/Dut]
Spafford, Horatio Gates. A Gazetteer of the State of
New-York, 1824.
Interlaken, NY: Heart of the Lakes Publ., 1981.
Reprint of 1824 original edition. Describes
counties, towns, villages, and geographic
features in one alphabetical order; appendix
lists post-offices in NY as of Jan. 1, 1824.
[Call Number 974.7/S]
Tompkins, Louise. The History of St. Peter’s
Protestant Episcopal Church
at Lithgow, New York
[founded 1801]. A
Landmark.
1971. Pamphlet. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
[Map] Atlas of New York and
vicinity.
Beers, Ellis & Soule, 1867. Atlas was
photocopied in its entirety, with each over-size
page covered by two to six 8 ½” x 11" pages;
the pages are stored in 3-ring binder. Atlas
covers Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess
County in detail, including the names of
property owners. [Call Number 974.77/Dut]
[Map] Atlas of the World. Fifth Edition. National Geographic,
Washington, DC, 1981. [Call Number
912/Atl]
[Map] Mid-Hudson Atlas. A book of detailed road maps for Greene,
Columbia, Ulster and Dutchess Counties of
New York State. JIMAPCO, c1994. 90 maps,
spiral-bound, street indexes for each county.
[Call Number 912/M]
[Map] World Atlas. Unabridged. Chicago: Encyclopedia
Britannica, c1951. [Call Number 912/Wor]
[Map]
Dutchess County, NY 1850 (Map 491) Land ownership maps. Library of
Congress Geography and Map Division.
Washington : Library of Congress, 1983. (2
fiches, Library of Congress collection of
pre-20 th century land ownership maps.) (filed
with Patron fiche under “DCGS” - LDS
Fiche # 6079728 )
Local histories, maps
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
[Map] Dutchess County, NY 1858 (Map 492) Land ownership maps. Library of
Congress Geography and Map Division in
cooperation with the Library of Congress
Photoduplication Service. Washington :
Library of Congress, 1983. (3 fiches, Library
of Congress collection of pre-20 th century
land ownership maps.) (filed with Patron fiche
under “DCGS” - LDS Fiche # 6079729 )
[Map] New York - 1779. By Claude Joseph Sauthier. Reprinted from
original 19 th century engraving by Jonathan
Sheppard Books, Albany, NY. Two sheets, 23"
x 29". "A chorographical map of the Province
of New York in North America, divided into
counties, manors, patents and townships...by
order of...Major General William Tryon by
Claude Joseph Sauthier, Esq."
[Map] Map of the State of New York
with Part of Upper Canada.
Reprinted by Jonathan Sheppard Enterprises
from original steel engraving published Sept.
1, 1831 in London, England by Hinton,
Simpkin & Marshall. One sheet 11" x 17".
[Map] New York - 1866. By A.J. Johnson. Reprinted from an original
by Jonathan Sheppard Books, Albany, NY.
One sheet 18" x 24". "Johnson's New York"
published by A.J. Johnson, New York in 1866.
FAMILY HISTORIES, GENEALOGIES, BIOGRAPHIES, COMPENDIUMS[this section only arranged in alphabetical order by principal subject family]
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
FAMILY HISTORIES
Newman, Janet T., comp. Family genealogy of the
Adamses of Putnam County,
New York.
1994. Manuscript family history starts with
Adamses probably resident in the area of
Putnam County (then still part of Dutchess
County), before 1790. [Call Number
929.2/Ada]
Newman, Janet Terman. Gilbert Adams (1760-1825)
of Fishkill, New York.
Revision 3.2 (June 1989). computer typescript,
index. Located in Family File Folder
"Adams". This compilation is based on family
records, research and correspondence.
Includes descendants of all of Gilbert Adams'
sons except Joseph. Spouses' surnames
include: Dingee, Sherwood, Nichols,
Ridgeway, Raynor, Shaw, Travis, Hulse,
Adams, Barrett, Van Nostrand, Rundal, and
Turney.
Aiello, John F. The History of the Aiello
Family from Corigliano,
Calabria - Providence[sic]
of Cosenza, Italy and
Poughkeepsie, New York,
U.S.A.
By author, 2005. Manuscript genealogy is a
simple, 4 generation descendancy for John
Aiello (1865-1934) & Mary Malagrino (1873-
1932) who immigrated from Italy to
Poughkeepsie in 1923, written by their
grandson. [Call Number 929.2/Aie]
Armstrong, John Edward. An Armstrong Ancestry. A
Genealogy of the
Descendants of Robert R.
Armstrong.
Publ. by author: 66E Ponwood Circle,
Madison, WI 53717. 1990. The Robert
Armstrong family of Oswego Co, NY migrated
to Wisconsin in 1840's and 1850's. Could be
the Robert Armstrong residing in Dutchess Co
in 1790 census. [Call Number 929.2/A]
Babcock, Gwendolyn
Garland.
The Ancestry of the Babcock
Family.
By author, November, 1992. Brief biographies
of ancestors & descendants of Guilford
Babcock (1899-1955) and Dorothy Beck
(1897-1982). First American generations of
Babcock, Fisher, Kelsey, Sturgis/Ewing, Beck,
Cornelius, Scott, Martin, Dutchess Co.
Palatines - Roos & Benner. Includes 9-gen.
chart, no index. [Call Number 929.2/Bab]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Badgley, George A. George Badgley & Emma
Seelye and Their
Descendants 1791-1983.
typescript. Includes Badgely, Seelye, Moss,
Thurston, Pells, Van Wagner, etc [Call
Number 929.2/B]
Baker, Emerson R.
(comp.)
Peter Baker of New York
1767-1822 and His
Descendants. Vol.1 - Peter
Baker.
Matlacha, FL: by the author, 1986. Peter
Baker was resident in Orange County, NY by
1805, place of birth unknown; moved to Tioga
Co., NY, Michigan & Tennessee. Includes
background material about areas where his
children settled. [Call Number 929.2/B]
Baker, Emerson R.
(comp.)
Peter Baker of New York
1767-1822 and His
Descendants. Vol.2 - Nathan
Baker.
Matlacha, FL: by the author, 1986. Nathan
Baker, son of Peter Baker, was born in Tioga
County, NY, moved to Michigan & Tennessee.
[Call Number 929.2/B]
Newcomb, John Bearss. Contribution to the
Genealogy of the Bearse or
Bearss Family in America
1618-1871.
Elgin, IL: 1871. 16 pp. Located in Family File
Folder "Bearss". Photocopied pages of a
privately printed book. Surnames of some NY
state spouses include: Beardsley, Rose, Buell,
Evarts, Bissel and Newcomb.
Benton II, Ezra Reed. Genealogy Four Family
Lines of William A. Benton I
1906-1978 Including
Interlocking Families.
Includes Benton, Hitchcock, Bassett, Tyler,
Reed, Smith, etc [Call Number 929.2/B]
Benton, Wm. A. Benton
(1881-1971).
Thumb Nail History of Wm.
A. Benton 1st 1788-1865
and some of His Descendants
with Side Lights and
Anecdotes.
“Dedicated to the clan with NO APPOLOgy
for Miss. pelling.” Informal, anecdotal account
of the Benton family of Leedsville in the town
of Amenia, builders of the homestead
“Troutbeck”. It includes references to daily
life throughout the 19th and 20th century and
various family stories. Also includes
Reminiscences by Rebecca Hitchcock Benton
(died 1901), with a number of old recipes (26
pages). [Call Number 929.2/Ben]
Bogardus, William
Brower (comp.)
Anneke Jans-Bogardus and
Adam Brouwer Research Aid
Bibliography.
1989, Anneke Jans and Everardus Bogardus
Descendants Assoc. Subject arrangement of
buried published sources in genealogies and
periodical articles on the Jans, Bogardus and
Brouwer/Brewer families. [Call Number
929.2/B]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Bogardus, William
Brower (comp.)
Dear “Cousin”: A charted
genealogy of the descendants
of Anneke Jans Bogardus
(1605-1663) to the 5th
generation.
Wilmington, OH: Anneke Jans and Everardus
Bogardus Descendants Association, c1996.
Brief biographies of Anneke Jans & Everardus
Bogardus; also discusses the most frequent
errors and incorrect lines for this family. A
separate annotated bibliography lists sources
for each chart. Related families - Bogardus,
Teller, Stoutenburgh, Van Rensselaer, Scott,
Elsworth, Oosterhout, DeDuyster. Roelofs,
Kierstede, Traphagan, DeWitt, Rosenkrans,
Wynkoop, Elmendorf, Bayard, Romme, Van
Ranst, Kip, Van Vleck, Van Borsum, De Kay,
Rodenburg, Van Brugh, Wendell, Clopper,
Gravenraedt, Ten Broeck, Douw, Richard,
Harters, Brouwer, Quackenbosch, Petit, Van
Note. [Call Number 929.2/Bog]
Stuart, Carol. Bon(e)steel, U.E.L. Manuscript, unpaged, in binder. Collection of
papers, family group sheets, family history,
memoirs, and correspondence during research
on Bonesteel family of Rhinebeck. Jacob
moved to Canada after serving with Loyalist
forces during the American Revolution. [early
version of Genealogy of Jacob Bonesteel Sr....]
[Call Number 929.2/B]
Stuart, Carol.
Genealogy of Jacob
Bonesteel Sr. (U.E.L.) and
Christian Welch.
2005. Manuscript in 3-ring binder. Genealogy
of Jacob Bonesteel, born 1757 in Pine Plains,
who joined Burgoyne’s army as a Loyalist
member of “Jessup’s Rangers” and was in the
first group of settlers of Prescott, Ontario,
Canada after the American Revolution. The
computer-generated genealogy consists of
several parts - Ancestors (18 pages, with
index); Descendants - numbered, with many
notes and sources (218 pages with index); a
compressed chart of descendants. Alt.
spellings - Bohnenstiel Bonisteel Bonsteel
Bonstelle [Call Number 929.2/Bon]
Cassidy, Henry. Catharyna Brett, Portrait of
a Colonial Businesswoman.
Collections of the Dutchess County Historical
Society, Vol.13, 1992. Published as the
historical society's 1992 Yearbook (Vol.77).
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Briggs, Harry Talmadge. The Colonial Ancestry of the
Family of John Greene
Briggs, son of Job Briggs
and Patience Greene, and
Isabell Gibbs De Groff,
daughter of William
Stoutenbergh De Groff and
Susan Hopkins.
By Harry Talmadge Briggs and John Greene
Briggs. Connects with many Dutchess county
families, including Briggs, Greene, De Groff,
Hopkins, Robinson, Delavergne, Stoutenbergh,
etc. [Call Number 929.2/B]
Collins, Ronald W. The Ancestral History of
William H. Bronk.
Northeast Genealogy Research & Collins Publ,
1997. “Contains genealogies of the Bronk,
Bronck, van Hoesen, Halenbek & Funston
families.” Jarvis Bronck was living in Fort
Orange (Albany) NY as early as 1643. [Call
Number 929.2/Bro]
Brower, Alfred H. The Brouwer or Brower
Genealogy.
typescript [Call Number 929.2/B]
Young, Mary Lynch. Descendants of Josiah Bull,
Jr. (1738-1813) of Dutchess
County, New York and his
ancestry
(Josiah3, John2, Isaac1). Vol.1 Baltimore:
Gateway Pr., 1992. Includes sons Stephen and
Joseph of Dutchess Co., Amos, John and
Josiah 3d of Ontario, Canada. Also Canadian
families of his daughters' husbands: Stephen
Blount, Thomas Bowerman, William Christy,
John Cooper, William Garratt, Amos Hubbs,
William Hubbs, Corey Spencer, John Striver.
[Call Number 929.2/B]
Todd, Mary Louise B. Descendants of Thomas and
Susannah Bull of Hartford,
Connecticut. Part 1, The
First Five Generations.
Lake Forest, IL: Heitman Printers, 1981. Pages
numbered 1-58, index, paper. [Call Number
929.2/Bul]
Todd, Mary Louise B. Descendants of Thomas and
Susannah Bull of Hartford,
Connecticut. Part 2,
Generations 6 and 7.
Lake Forest, IL: Heitman Printers, 1983. Pages
numbered 59-149, index, paper. [Call Number
929.2/Bul]
Todd, Mary Louise B.
Descendants of Thomas and
Susannah Bull of Hartford,
Connecticut. Part 3,
Generations 8 and 9.
Lake Forest, IL: Heitman Printers, 1985. Pages
numbered 150-226, index, paper. [Call
Number 929.2/Bul]
Todd, Mary Louise B. Descendants of Thomas and
Susannah Bull of Hartford,
Connecticut. Part 4,
Generations 10 and 11
with Additions and Corrections for Parts 1, 2,
3. Lake Forest, IL: Heitman Printers, 1986.
Pages numbered 227-279. [Call Number
929.2/Bul]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Bullock, Paul D. A Bullock Family History
from Rehoboth to Holcomb
(1643-1957).
1983. Short narrative; copy of a 1949
manuscript Bullock genealogy; and pedigree
charts and family group sheets. [Call Number
929.2/Bul]
Thompson-Stahr, Jane. The Burling Books.
Ancestors and Descendants
of Edward and Grace
Burling, Quakers (1600-
2000).
2 vol. Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc, 2001.
Family history covering up to 16 generations
including women’s lines, documented.
Includes: Barnes, Bedell, Bowne, Brown,
Carpenter, Cornell, Cruger, De Zeng,
Dusenbury, Ferris, Field, Ford, Griffin,
Gummere, Hallock, Haviland, Hunt, Ketcham,
Kimble, Lawrence, Lowerre, Mott, Nelson,
Norrington, Parsons, Pixley, Roesch, Rogers,
Sampson, Scheiffelin, Shotwell, Smith, Street,
Thompson, Titus, Underhill, Vail, Vincent,
Way, Weeks, White, Wood. [Call Number
929.2/Bur]
Campbell, Harlan Rogers. The Campbell Family. Some
of the Descendants of
William Campbell of Bergen
County [NJ], 1718 to 1969.
Includes Demarest, Ackerman, Verveelen,
Westervelt and other Dutchess County names.
[Call Number 929.2/C]
Case, Howard E. A Family History and
Genealogy of Henry Case
(1715-1767) and Margery
Carscadden (1714-1792) -
Orange County, NY.
Privately printed, 1969 [Call Number
929.2/C]
Chamberlin, George
Richard.
Judah Chamberlin (1761-
1847) in his own words and
in the words of his wife
Phebe Mead.
Self-published, 2005. Pamphlet, subtitled “A
short study of the Revolutionary War Pension
and bounty land application filed by Judah
Chamberlin, and his wife Phebe Mead
Chamberlin, in 1837 and 1855, respectively”
goes into great detail identifying the people,
places and events mentioned in Judah
Chamberlin’s pension application.
Chamberlin, born in Connecticut, resided in
Dutchess County before moving to Ohio.
[Call Number 929.2/Cha]
Champlin, Frederick
Ougheltree.
The House of Champlin. NYC: 1933. Typescript, about 776 pp. This is
a collection of several photocopied
manuscripts about the Champlin family,
including "House of Champlin", "The Jeffrey
Line", "The Christopher Line" and "An
Abstract". Original manuscript is in Red
Hook, NY Library. [Call Number 929.2/C]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Webb, Robert & Sheila,
compilers.
Chevalier Genealogy -
Shevalier/Chavalier/Shavalie
r/Shavalear.
manuscript. Pedigree Chart starting with
Robert L. Webb includes a line through
Canada which leads back to a Chevalier family
in upstate New York, Dutchess County, NY
and Connecticut. The materials include 5
pages of pedigree charts and 130 pages of
family group sheets of Chevalier families in
their numerous variant spellings. [Call
Number 929.2/Che]
Collins, Ronald W. Collins Family History. Fourth ed. The Genealogical History of the
Collins Family of Washington County, NY.
By author, 1997. Families include: Doucet,
Drace, Dudley, Eno, Eyre, Forcier, Funk,
Gauthier, Gaylord, Gillette, Goodale,
Goodrick, Gregory, Grosvenor, Hammond,
Harper, Haskins, Hubert, Hus, Kelsey,
Kuhn(Coon), La Fau, Leppard, Loescher,
Marcot, Marvin, Matthieu, Matteson, Miller,
Mudge, Phillips, Robitaille, Seeley, Schneider,
Skinner, Sturge, Trent, Turney, Vacher, Vore,
Weller, Wies, Williams, Winegar,
Woodbridge. [Call Number 929.2/Col]
Coons, William S. Coons
& Kate Koon Bovey.
Koon-Coons Families of
Eastern New York Part 1.
1996 reprint by Ulster County Genealogical
Society (originally publ. 1931, Tuttle
Publishing Co). “Family of Matthias Kuntz
who came with the Palatines from Germany in
1710 and settled near Germantown on the
Hudson River in New York State.” Alternate
spellings include Coens, Kuntz, Kunz, Kuhns,
Coons, Coontz, Koon, Koonz, etc. [Call
Number 929.2/C]
Corey, James Matthew. Ancestors of Matthew and
Emma Corey.
1990. Follows direct line through Corey,
Mead, Davis, Jaycox, Woodin, and Dunbar
families. [Call Number 929.2/C]
Crego, Roy. A Selective History of the
Crego Family.
By author, Basking Ridge, NJ, c1993. Crego
family went from New York City to Dutchess
County in the early 1700's and followed typical
migration patterns to Vermont, Connecticut,
upstate New York State and Michigan.
Related families include: Haight, Lossee,
Hollenbeck, Waters & Dutcher. Periodic 1
page supplements added. [Call Number
929.2/Cre]
Cullman, Joseph F. I’m a Lucky Guy. Autobiography of chairman of Philip Morris
1957-1978. [Call Number 920/C]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Davison, Mary Lou &
Jim.
The Dabros Family from
Poland to Poughkeepsie and
Beyond.
manuscript. Adam Dabros, born Poland 1859,
arrived in Poughkeepsie about 1895. [Call
Number 929.2/Dab]
Garven, Dorothy. Descendants of Nicholas De
La Vergne 1720-1940: An
Index to the Genealogical
Records Collected by
Charles S. DeLaVergne and
Dorothy Garven.
Los Angeles: Alder Tree Press, 1986. Index to
the considerable personal collections of
records of D. Garven and C. De La Vergne.
[Call Number 929.2/D]
Garven, Dorothy. Descendants of Nicolas De
La Vergne of Dutchess Co.,
New York Through His Son
Lewis (1738-1805).
Los Angeles: Alder Tree Press, 1993. Follows
families to present - 9th & 10th generations.
[Call Number 929.2/Del]
Garven, Dorothy. Descendants of Nicholas De
La Vergne of Dutchess
County, NY through Six of
His Children: Benjamin,
Giles, Joseph, Frances
Green, Mary Mosher and
Sarah Howland.
Book 2 of the De La Vergne Family Series.
LA: Alden Tree Press, 1997. Related names
include Green, Husted, Mosher, and Howland.
[Call Number 929.2/Del]
Allaben, Frank. John Watts De Peyster. NY: Frank Allaben Genealogical Co, c1908. 2
vol. Biography of Gen. De Peyster who owned
"Rose Hill" estate in Tivoli, Town of Red
Hook as summer home 1841-1907.
Genealogical notes on related families of
Watts, DeLancey, Coldin, Van Cortlandt,
Loockerman, Livingston, MacPheadris,
French, Philipse, Beekman, Nicoll, Van
Renselaer, Schuyler, and Van Slicktenhorst.
[Call Number 929.2/D]
DeWitt, Mary V. The Dewitt Genealogy.
Descendants of Tjereck
Claessen DeWitt of Ulster
County, NY.
Names and vital statistics (no documentation).
[Call Number 929.2/D]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Gemeny, W. Gordon. Colonel Lewis duBois -
unheralded Hero of the
Revolutionary War.
2001. The focus of this paper is to correct
confusion in the mis-identification of Lewis
duBois / duBoys (1744-1824) of Dutchess
County with Lewis du Bois of Ulster County.
The Dutchess County Lewis/Louis was a
Colonel of the New York Fifth Line Regiment
in the American Revolution, but his records
have been attributed to Lewis of Ulster
County, a Major in Col. Hasbrouck’s
Newburgh Regiment. [Call Number
929.2/Dub]
Heidgerd, William. The American Descendants
of Chretien DuBois of
Wicres, France.
Compiled for the DuBois Family Association,
Huguenot Historical Society, New Paltz, NY.
1968-1990. 20 vols. and indexes. Parts 1-16,
consolidated DuBois Index (1988) and Index
to Other Names A-E (only). Each volume has
own index. Chretien DuBois settled in New
Paltz, Ulster Co, NY in the 17th century. [Call
Number 929.2/D]
Chamberlain, Marjorie
Dikeman.
Johannes Dyckman of Fort
Orange and His
Descendants. Vol.1 - The
First Five Generations.
West Rutland, VT: by the author, 1988.
Johannes & Maria Dyckman settled at Albany
shortly after their 1651 arrival in New
Amsterdam. Some lines traced 5 generations,
many unplaced Dyckmans noted.
Concentrations around Albany, NYC,
Columbia & Dutchess Co., NY; Fairfield Co.,
CT. [Call Number 929.2/D]
Eggleston, George T. Some Descendants of Bygod
Eggleston of Yorkshire,
England and Windsor,
Connecticut.
Florida, c1981. [Call Number 929.2/Egg]
Emigh, Ward R. Johann Nicolaus Emich. His
Life and Times 1689-1761.
typescript. Includes some background on
Palatine immigration, life of Johann Emich,
and history of original homestead still standing
in Clove, NY. [Call Number 929.2/Emi]
Donohue, Donald C.,
comp.
The Ennist Genealogy. Hurley, NY: Ulster Co Gen. Society, c1995.
Series: Families of Ulster County. Modified
Register format follows up to 11 generations
descendant from Edward Annis & Alexander
Innes. Related families: Swartwoudt, Rosa,
Hoornbeck, Cortwright, Oosterhout,
Vandermark, Pattison, Keter, Middagh, Van
Etten, Westbrook, Shimer, Smith, Turner,
Brice, DuBois, Emery, Thornton, Schutt. [Call
Number 929.2/E]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Kenney, Alice P. The Gansevoorts of Albany.
Dutch Patricians in the
Upper Hudson Valley.
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press,
c1969. As much a history of the area and
Dutch tradition as a strict genealogy. [Call
Number 929.2/G]
Brittenham, William
Robert and Ruth Z.
Lewis.
The Garter Family of New
York and Michigan.
By author, 2006. “Garter descendants lived in
Herkimer and Orleans Counties, New York, in
Oakland, Ionia, Kent and Ottawa Counties,
Michigan, and elsewhere. Including
individuals with the surnames Austin, Boyer,
Brittenham, Carr, Chase, Churchill, Dresser,
Gerter, Green, Hoover, Kilts, King, Mitton,
Nelson, Petrie, Prindle, Smith, Staring, Van
Allsburg, Widrick.” Presents descendants of
Robert Gerter and Elisabeth Cromwell
(married before 1729 probably in Schenectady,
NY) in Register format down to the tenth
generation. There are very extensive notes and
documentation, and 18 appendices covering
such things as discussions of research
questions and transcriptions of items including
manuscript memoirs, letters, and
administrations. Call number 929.2/Gar
Gorton, Thomas Arthur. Samuel Gorton of Rhode
Island and His Descendants.
Combined Vol. 1 & 2. Baltimore: Gateway
Press, 1985. [Call Number 929.2/G]
Donohue, Donald C. Grays of Ulster County,
Related Families, and Other
Grays.
Hurley, NY: Ulster County Genealogical
Society, c1995. Vol.III UCGS Families of
Ulster County series. Modified Register-style
family genealogy following several Gray lines,
concentrating on lines migrating from New
England, through Connecticut to New York.
Related families include Forman,
Lewes/Lewis, Godfrey and Sparrow. [Call
Number 929.2/G]
Long, Anne (comp.) Green/Greene Entries Found
in the Barbour Collection of
Connecticut Vital Records.
1988. [Call Number 929.2/G]
Grier Jr., William M. The Griers. Pioneers in
America and Canada 1816-
1991.
Denver: Grier & Co, c1991. History of a
Scots-Irish family that immigrated to Canada
in 1816 and eventually moved to the American
West. [Call Number 929.2/Gri]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Guilford, Joan S.
Guilford.
The Ancestry of Dr. J. P.
Guilford. Seventeenth-
Century New England
Colonials and a Few
Eighteenth Century
Immigrants.
Vol.II. Franklin, NC: Genealogy Publishing
Service, c2003. Uually only the first immigrant
generation and then 1 or 2 generations beyond
are covered. Part I: “Assured Ancestors”, Part
II: “Assumed Ancestors”, Part III: “Errata and
Addenda to Volume 1”, and Part IV: “The
Ancestry of Ruth Sheridan Burke, Wife of Dr.
J.P. Guilford”. A final section of 4-generation
pedigree charts, starting with J.P. Guilford as
#1. [Only 2 lines have a direct connection to
Dutchess County - Kinney/Kinne and Herrick -
and they are not treated in this volume.] Abbe,
Allen, Benham, Child(s), Cogan, Corey, Crow,
Davis, Durham, Farrar, Finney, Goodrich,
Griggs, Jaqua, Johnston, Keen, Kemp, King,
Knowlton, May, Merriman, Monroe, Norcross,
Partridge, Seabury, Spink, Timmons, Truant,
Wright, Allyn, Bass, Benson, Caswell,
Caulkins, Dingley, Douglas, Eames, Foster,
Freeman, Gates, Hayward, Hough, Jordan,
Josselyn, Keen, Lane, Monroe, Noyes,
Oldham, Parker, Pidge, Proctor, Ramsden,
Rose, Sprague, Stockbridge, Thayer, Wetherill,
Williams, Wood. [Call Number 929.2/Gui]
Haddock, Hugh Ranson. Legends of the Haddock
Family.
Compiled by Hugh Ranson Haddock and
Orpha Vaughan Haddock. 1976. Family
settled in New England in 1600's, moved to
North Carolina, then spread south and west in
the 19th century. [Call Number 929.2/Had]
Hamm, Warren. The Hamm family. manuscript. [Call Number 929.2/H]
Lowry, James W. Haskins Genealogy. The
Descendants of Jonas
Haskins (1788-1837) of
Dutchess Co, NY and
Uhrichsville, OH.
Hagerstown, MD: Deutsche Buchhhandlung,
1992. Including "History of the Haskins
Family" by Luman Birch Haskins. [Call
Number 929.2/Has]
Bathrick, Michael, transc. John Herrick Ledger, Pine
Plains, NY.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, n.d. Ledger contains
payroll accounts for John Herrick farm of Pine
Plains 1852 to circa 1880's and 1890's.
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Bruder, Bruce, compiler “Dear Children in
Wisconsin”.
Collection of transcripts with scanned copies
of 7 letters from Peter and Catherine Hidorn
of Pine Plains, NY to their son & his wife John
and Sarah (Simmons) Hidorn in Wisconsin
1854-1858. Packet includes a CD-ROM with
scanned pictures of the letters and the Hidorn
home in Pine Plains. Located in “Family File”
under “Heydorn”.
Hix, Gayle D. Hix (Hicks) Heads of
Families 1790-1850 New
York.
By the author, 7901 Cambridge Drive #43,
Houston, TX 77054. Lists in column format
all Hix/Hicks families found in the NY Federal
censuses 1790-1850, including first name,
town, county, and census year. [Call Number
929.2/Hix]
Hoffman, Joyce Williams
and E. William.
Hoffman, Manning and
Simmons Families of
Dutchess County, New York.
Part I of the book follows a direct line of
descent with brief data on family groups of
mother, father and children. There is no direct
citation of sources. Part II includes families
associated with the 3 main families, including:
Becker, Bonenstiehl (Bonessteel), Burke, Du
Bois, Kilmer, Oathorp, Near/Neher,
Reiffenberg, and Waldorf. [Call Number
929.2/H]
Klinkenberg, Audrey M.,
compiler
The Hommel Family of
Ulster County from 1710.
Hurley, NY: Ulster County Genealogical
Society, c1995. Series: Ulster County Gen.
Society’s Families of Ulster County. [Call
Number 929.2/H]
Hooker, Edward. The Descendants of Rev.
Thomas Hooker, Hartford,
Connecticut 1586-1908.
Edited by Margaret Huntington Hooker. 1909.
"Being an account of what is known of Rev.
Thomas Hooker's family in England. And
more particularly concerning himself and his
influence upon the early history of our country
also all items of interest which it has been
possible to gather concerning the early
generations of Hookers and their descendants
in America. [Call Number 929.2/Hoo]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Hosier, Scott F. The Hosier Family of New
York & Pennsylvania.
Chapters C, D, M, N & Z.
John Hosier of Rye,
Westchester County 1680-
1724.
Manuscript family history, computer print-out,
each chapter with own index. Outline
descendancies followed by “Modified
Register” format for each descendant; no
sources cited. Sections include – John Hosier,
1680-1724; Peter Hosier of Columbia Co., NY
1820-1906; John Hosier of Chautauqua Co.,
NY 1756-1822; Samuel Hosier of Dutchess
Co., NY born before 1734; Henry Hosier of
Broom Co., NY 1832-1914. [Call Number
929.2/Hos]
Trigg, George Lockwood. A Huff Genealogy.
Descendants of Engelbert
Huff of Dutchess County,
NY.
Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, c1992.
Engelbert Hoff was said to have been born in
Norway about 1637 and died 1765 age 128 in
Fishkill, NY. Most of the family left NY for
Canada after the American Revolution. The
bulk of the book covers generations 3-10 after
Engelbert Hoff. [Call Number 929.2/Huf]
Hosmer, Ralph Sheldon. Genealogy of That Branch of
the Irwin Family in New
York Founded in the Hudson
River Valley by William
Irwin 1700-1787.
Compiled by Ralph Sheldon Hosmer and
Martha Teller (Irwin) Fielder. Privately
printed by Dudley Mann Irwin, Ithaca, NY,
1938. Also includes Patton, Doolittle, Green,
Rew, and Williams information. [Call
Number 929.2/I]
Chance, Dorothy Jane. The Ketcham/Ketchum
Family in America 1635-
1991. Descendants of
Nathaniel Ketcham of
Huntington, Long Island and
of Nathaniel Ketchum of
Norwalk, CT.
Baltimore: GPC, 1991. [Call Number
929.2/K]
Fisher-King 1817-1937. Bound typescript. Families of Edward King
and descendants of Samuel Ware Fisher and
Lorinda Smith King. [Call Number 929.2/K]
A Noble Son: Spencer W.
Kimball. A Curious
Combination of Cousins.
Salt Lake City: Institute of Family Research,
1977. Intended to show Kimball's cousin
relationships to other well-known people,
illustrating the idea of "collapsing pedigrees".
[Call Number 929.2/K]
Rose, Mildred G. Kiser. Kiser - Family and
Descendants of John Mulkey
Kiser of Dumps Creek,
Russell County (Southwest
Virginia).
By the author, 1980. John Kiser was born
1829 in VA; many of the family migrated to
MO. Follows his 12 children and descendants.
[Call Number 929.2/Kis]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Knapp, Alfred Averill,
compiler.
Nicholas Knapp Genealogy. 1953. Reprint: Higginson Books, 2000.
Covers descendants of the English immigrant
Nicholas Knapp who arrived at Watertown,
MA in 1630; includes more than 12,000
individuals. Early descendants are numerous in
western Connecticut, and eastern New York,
including Dutchess County. [Call Number
929.2/K]
Viele, Kathlyne
Knickerbacker.
Sketches of Allied Families
Knickerbacker - Viele
Historical and Genealogical
“to which is added an Appendix containing
family data.” Hurley, NY: UCGS, 1996
(reprint of original 1916). Added Register-
format summary outline of family. [Call
Number 929.2/K]
Powers, Eileen Lasher. Lasher Lineage. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1982. A Palatine
family of New York. [Call Number 929.2/Las]
Powers, Eileen Lasher. Supplement - Lasher
Lineage.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1994. Additions and
corrections to Powers’ Lasher Lineage. [Call
Number 929.2/L]
Francis, Rev. J.G. History and Genealogy of
Early Pioneer Families of
Lebanon County,
Pennsylvania. The Lights of
Lebanon County.
Apollo, PA: Closson Publisher, c1990. [Call
Number 974.8/F]
Davis, Howland & Arthur
Kelly, comps.
A Livingston Genealogical
Register.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1995. Compiled for
The Friends of Clermont, co-sponsored by The
Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in
America. Sequel to the 1986 "Livingston
Genealogy". Direct descent from Rev. John
Livingston shown in charts with name, birth &
death dates only (no places). [Call Number
929.2/Liv]
Wiles, Richard T. (ed.) The Livingston Legacy.
Three Centuries of American
History.
Bard College, c1987. Papers from a
symposium held at Bard College 1986. [Call
Number 929.2/L]
Buck, Clifford M. The Lossing Family. manuscript. [Call Number 929.2/L]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Guilford, Joan S. The Ancestry of Dr. Franklin
B. McClung.
By author, 1999. Genealogy discusses direct
line descent of 72 ancestors of Frank B.
McClung in short chapters, with a
summarizing “line of descent” at the end of
each chapter. No footnotes but there is an
extensive bibliography and discussion of
problems and uncertainties. Introductory
material includes information about the
Society of Friends (Quakers) and Dutch names.
Surnames of ancestral lines in New York
include Coerten, Forshee, Halenbeck, Hand,
Hoffmeyer, Horton, Perlier/Perlee, Peterson,
Polhemus, Salmon, Vigne, and Volkertszen,
Meigs, Perlier/Perlee, & Wright. [Call
Number 929.2/M]
McKay, Dr. James
Adolphus, ed.
Genealogy of the McKay
Family. Descendants of
Elkenny McKay, the Founder
of the Family in America.
West Superior, WI: by author, 1896. "And
including 37 generations of the ancestors of the
family of Daniel McKay A.D. 560 to 1890 -
1330 years." Related families: McKay,
Sackett, Wadsworth, Douglas, Edwards, Carey,
Waller, Weed. [Call Number 929.2/Mck]
Middaugh, Jack K. The Middaugh Family
History.
Hurley, NY: Ulster County Genealogical
Society, c1995. Vol.II UCGS Families of
Ulster County series. Modified Register-style
format starting with Repalye and Bergen
ancestors, then 11 generations of Midag /
Middagh / Middaugh / Meddaugh, beginning
1640. Bibliographic citations are very general,
with no sources directly cited. [Call Number
929.2/M]
Mills, Katie R. (comp.) History of the Simon Mills
Family Through His Son
John Mills and Grandson
Joseph Mills of Simsbury,
CT.
Book II (8th and 9th generations.) By Katie R
and Ralph E. Mills. Michigan: by author,
1982. [Call Number 929.2/M/v.2]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Baselt, Fonda D.
(Wagner).
A Minkler-Minckler
Heritage.
Including Families: Becker, Bloodgood,
Brown, Davidts, Dings, Donges, Dunschmann,
Freer, Funck, Hegeman, Hemerick, Kilmer,
Knickerbacker, LeRoy, Palmatier, Schneider,
Sperbeck, Terrill, VanBommell, and
VanKleeck. By the author, 2004. Appendix
includes photocopy of short diary of Civil War
veteran Pvt. Levi Minkler, Co. F, 18th
Regiment Wis. Vols. The first part of the book
starts with the first generation Palatine German
immigrant ancestor Kilian Minckler and
follows the family for 7 generations using a
standard Register numbering system. The
second part of the book has many short
sections covering related families. [Call
Number 929.2/Min]
Harris, Edward
Doubleday.
James Mott of Dutchess
County, NY and
Descendants.
Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Rutland VT (reprint
of original). Pamphlet. Branch of a Long
Island Mott family that settled in Dutchess
County. [Call Number 929.2/M]
Stenberg, Francee
Forrester Walker.
The Noxon Family in North
America.
Cullman, AL: Gregath Co, c1990. Family
history with documention; from Thomas
Noxon who married 1691 to Gertrude
Hoogeboom in Albany, NY. Supplement
added. [Call Number 929.2/N]
Dahl, Barbara. Ostrander Family Vital
Records. Births, Baptisms
and Marriages of the
Ostrander Family in New
York State and Nearby From
1660.
By Barbara Dahl and Emmett Ostrander.
Ostrander Family Association, 1989. Compiled
from the records of 529 churches and related
sources. [Call Number 929.2/O]
Ostrander, Emmett, et al. Ostrander. A Genealogical
Record 1660-1995.
Ostrander Family Association, 1999. Traces
more than 17,500 descendants in fifteen
generations from Peiter Pieterzen of
Amsterdam who arrived in America in 1660
and settled in Ulster County. Some of the
earliest generations lived in Dutchess &
Columbia County before spreading west and
north. [Call Number 929.2/Ost]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Otstot, Charles
Mathieson.
A History of the Otstot(t)
Family in America Also
Being a Guide to the
Descendants of Jost and
Katherine Otstadt.
Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1973. Related
families- Hartman, Helsel, Handell, Stephens,
Knaub, Bishop, Altman, Brodbeck, McDohald,
Keller, Abel, Merkhart, Dellinger, Jung.
Supplement: 1974 Pages 831-859.
Supplement: 1976 Pages 861-942 [Call
Number 929.2/O]
Berry, Brian J. L. The Rufus Parks Pedigree.
Seventeen Centuries of Our
Family’s Ancestry.
Printed for author at McKinney, TX by
Prestige Printers, 1989. Rufus Parks (1793-
1861) was born in Montgomery Co, NY,
subsequently resided for a time in Dutchess
Co., died in Illinois. Considerable material on
Parks ancestry to Middle Ages; New England
ancestry of related lines. [Call Number
929.2/Par]
Haslam, Patricia Liddle. Richard Patrick or Partrick
of Norwalk, Conn. and Some
of His Descendants.
Barre, VT: 1978. Text intended as a work in
progress, presenting various primary and
secondary sources found up to the time the
book was written, covering descendants (some
as far as 9 generations) of the Richard Patrick
who appears in Norwalk, CT records by 1725.
Some descendants were in Dutchess County by
the early 19th century. There are additional
handwritten notes added to the text by the
author. [Call Number 929.2/Pat]
Patten, Malcolm Clark. Patten Genealogy. An
Elaboration Upon One Line
Descending from William
Patten of Cambridge 1635.
Newport Beack, CA: Powell & Taylor Publ.
Co., c1990. (A Taylor line lived in
Poughkeepsie.) [Call Number 929.2/Pat]
Payne, Clyde W. The Descendants of John
Payn from England to
America.
Baltimore, Gateway Press, 1994. Traces a
direct line from Moses Payne who arrived at
Braintree, MA in 1638 back to England for
aout 6 generations, then forward to author's
father 10 generations. Brief biographies of
each ancestor, cites sources. [Call Number
929.2/Pay]
Marvin, Dwight. Aaron Perkins, DD of
Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
His Life and New England
Ancestry.
Worcester, MA: Illuminator Desktop Publ.,
c1996. Rev. Aaron Perkins was a Baptist
minister who served 12 years at Lattintown,
Ulster Co (1812-1824) and 9 years in
Poughkeepsie, NY (1829-1835, 1845-1848).
Ancestry includes Benson, Brown, Cheney,
Gilman, Hawes, Holmes, Johnson, Morton,
Packard, Perkins, Pratt, Washburn, et al. [Call
Number 929.2/P]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Col, Thomas E., compiler. Edmund Pendleton Platt and
Mary Emily Bartlett.
Ancestors and Descendants.
April 1994. Manuscript. Includes
introduction, short history of Platt family
1853-1913 in Poughkeepsie, descendancy
chart, many family group sheets. [Call
Number 929.2/Pla]
Pulver Genealogy. 3-ring binder, index. Probably compiled by
William & Mildred Tirk. Follows up to 11
generations on some lines descending from
Palatine immigrant Johann Wendell
Pulver/Bulffer. Some related early families
include Jager, Linck, Stekel, Klum, Kuhn,
Kilmer/Coleman, Voland, Zufelt, Van de
Water, Simon, Van Duesen, Knickerbocker,
Bristol, Garrison, Hagadorn, Turk. [Call
Number 929.2/Pul]
Ransom Genealogy. Dallas, PA: Ransom Reunion Genealogy
Committee, 1973. photocopy of a typed
manuscript, with index. Introductory material
with some history of the settlement of Capt.
Samuel Ransom, born 1737 in England or
Connecticut. There are 2 “historical
prologues”, but most of the text follows the
descendants of Samuel Ransom and Esther
Laurence, in some cases for 8 generations.
Basic name, date and place information, no
documentation. [Call Number 929.2/Ran]
Heath, Franklin W. Child's History - Reed. Philadelphia, 1932. typed manuscript, fold-out
chart. Brief narrative of Reed family of
Amenia with descendant charts. Related
families: Edgerton, Pulling, Zabriskie,
Hollister, Benton, Cobb, Heath, Barlow, Cline,
Sedgewick, & Gridley. [Call Number
929.2/R]
“The Roosevelt Family in
America: A Genealogy”.
Published in Theodore Roosevelt Association
Journal in 3 parts, Vol.16:1-3 (Winter, Spring,
Summer 1990). A basic genealogy from the
immigrant Claes Martenszen von Rosenvelt,
c1650 to the present. [Call Number 929.2/R]
Griffith, W.R. & Augusta
E. Preston.
The Genealogy of the Ross
Family, Descendants of
Zebulon Ross, who came
from Scotland to Dover,
Dutchess Co., N. Y., in the
early part of the eighteenth
century.
Higginson reprint, 2004. (Orig. published 1885
by W.R. Griffith of New York City, and
Augusta E. Preston of South Dover, NY).
Detailed dates and places start with 3 rd
generation, concentrating on Ross surname
line. [Call Number 929.2/R]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Currier, Opel Louise. William Russel Family of
Menotomy (now Arlington),
Massachusetts.
1980. [Call Number 929.2/R]
Rutherford, William
Kenneth.
Genealogical History of the
Rutherford Family Vol.2.
By William Kenneth Rutherford and Anna
Clay (Zimmerman) Rutherford. Shawnee, KS,
Intercollegiate Press, c1969. Includes
Rutherford women and their descendants from
Robertus dominus de Rodyrforde. [Call
Number 929.2/R]
Rutherford, William
Kenneth.
Genealogical History of Our
Ancestors.
Compiled by William Kenneth Rutherford
and Anna Clay (Zimmerman) Rutherford.
1970. Sequel to 1969 edition. New York
immigrant ancestors include Jans, Jansen,
Jonas, Kierslede, Polhemus, Roelofs, Sebring,
Stilwell, Vander Werven and Van Dyke. [Call
Number 929.2/R]
Rutherford, William
Kenneth.
Genealogical History of Our
Ancestors.
Compiled by William Kenneth Rutherford
and Anna Clay (Zimmerman) Rutherford. 2
vols. Revised edition. 1977. Related families
include: Alden, Polhemus, Sebring, Jansen,
Jans, Duyts, Bass, Hayden, Holmes, Mullins,
Neale, Pray, Scott, Webb. [Call Number
929.2/R]
Surine, Carolyn. The Sarine Family.
Migrations to Mamakating,
Montgomery, Deer Park, and
Chemung, NY. Vol.2, Pt.1.
Oswego, NY: by author, 1994. Intended to
document the earliest known members of the
Surine family including documents, family
records, outline descendants chart of James
"Canopus" Surine and Elizabeth Oakley.
[Call Number 929.2/Sar]
Reynolds-Green, Barbara
Jean (Schryver).
The Family History -
Schryver and Hinkle
(Henckel), Bush and
Stingley, Baumarter and
Martindale.
By author, ca.1995. Collection of pedigree
charts with many photos, copies of vital
records, miscellaneous newspaper articles and
other materials. [Call Number 929.2/Sch]
Williamson, Ralph & Eva
Anderson Williamson.
Stevenson and Anderson
Families of New Jersey,
Ohio, Indiana and Kansas.
Trenton:NJ: Parker Printing, Co, 1976. Traces
descendants of Samuel Stevenson (1742-
1811), mostly in New Jersey and Indiana; and
John Anderson (1770-1865). Appendix
includes transcripts and abstracts of some
original records, but generally sources are not
cited in the text. [Call Number 929.2/S]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Surine, Carolyn, comp. The Surine-Sirrine Family.
New York Beginnings of an
American Story. Vol.1.
1987. Compilation of materials, charts,
research notes on a family with many spelling
variations, including Sarine, Searing, Serin,
Suring, Syron, etc. [Call Number 929.2/S]
Murphy, Daniel I., Project
Founder.
Sedore Family History.
Vol.1 Coonradt Sedore of
New York (ca 1734 - ca
1810), His Sons and
Grandchildren.
Westminster, MD: Willow Bend Books &
Family Line Publication, c2000. Traces
descendants of four sons of Coonradt Sedore
and Antje Boeckhout of Sleepy Hollow, NY
down to the present, covering 10,000
descendants and 6000 spouses. One son,
Frederick Sedore, settled in Dutchess County.
A brief narrative introduces each family, and
each family listing, using the Henry numbering
system, is well documented. [Call Number
929.2/Sed]
Seward, George C. Seward and Related
Families.
Scarsdale, NY: by the author, c1987. Families
include Swebers, Rughs, Kloennes, McKays,
Eleys, Days, Corbells, Philips. [Call Number
929.2/S]
Seward, George C, ed. We Remember Carroll. A
tribute to Carroll Frances
McKay Seward.
White Plains, NY: by author, c1992.
Recollections of friends and relatives. [Call
Number 929.2/Sew]
Seward, George C. Seward and Related
Families. Second edition
incorporating We Remember
Carroll.
White Plains, NY: by author, c1994. Related
families include Bradley, Corbell, Day, Eley,
Hawes, Kloennes, McKay, Phillips, Rugh, and
Sweger. [Call Number 929.2/Sew]
Signor, Charles E. The Signor Family. Sickner,
Signer, Signor.
Notes & worksheets of Charles E. Signor,
April, 1946. Transcribed, Reorganized &
Indexed by James G. Brown. Extensive list of
descendants of Johan Jacob Sickner, a Palatine
immigrant who settled in Rhinebeck, NY.
Computer-generated genealogy-report format
by James Brown is based on a carbon-copy
manuscript produced by Charles E. Signor.
Few sources are listed. [Call Number
929.2/S]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Silvernail, Peter, comp. Southern Columbia County,
New York Families (A
Genealogy).
Edited by Arthur Kelly. Rhinebeck, NY:
Kinship, 1996. Manuscript compiled by
Silvernail about 1895-97. Includes families of
Hoysradt/Hiserodt, Strever, Dings, Tanner &
DeLong; with related lines of Silvernail,
Pulver, Decker, Kilmer, Lasher, Weaver,
Tripp, Link, Knickerbacker, Reynolds, Smith,
and Simons/Simmons. [Call Number
929.2/Sil]
Simmons, Henry, jt. auth. A Hudson Valley Simmons
Family.
Compiled by Henry & Linda Simmons. 1998.
cascading pedigree chart. Modified Register
System format, PAF files, general list of
sources. Related families include: Brink,
Bennett, Sheeley, Roosa, Schoonmaker, Funck,
Winne, Post, Klaarwater, Swartout, Kierstede,
Sterner, Davis, Whitaker, Brodhead, and De
Jongh. [Call Number 929.2/Sim]
Sisson, David, and Joan
Sisson.
Descendants of Richard and
Mary Sisson; ten
generations from 1608.
By authors, 1999. Publishers of Sisson
Newsletter cover immense amount of material
on descendants of Rhode Island couple; easy to
track families altho not a standard genealogical
format. Documentation rough, with general
referral at end of a family listing. [Call
Number 929.2/S]
Sisson, David, and Joan
Sisson.
Descendants of Richard and
Mary Sisson. Updates - ten
generations from 1608.
By authors, c2003. Additions, changes and
corrections, referring back to page numbers in
the 1999 edition. [Call Number 929.2/S]
Skidmore, Warren. Thomas Skidmore
(Scudamore) 1605-1684 of
Westerliesh, Gloucestershire
and Fairfield County, CT.
His ancestors and his descendants to the ninth
generation. 2 nd edition. Published by the
author, Akron, OH, 1985. Related families:
Barber, Hall, Rogers, Mosher, Brown, Hyzer,
Lacy, Culver, Cornell, Humphrey, Williams,
Haight, Haviland, Hughes, Bell, Akin, Clapp.
[Call Number 929.2/Ski]
Herrick, Margaret E. Thaddeus K. Smith and
Bertha Heyne. Their
Ancestors and Descendants
Including Families of Bard,
Downing, Veach.
2 nd ed. By author, 1989. Families lived in
Red Hook-Rhinebeck area of Dutchess
County. [Call Number 929.2/S]
Anderson, Richard Lloyd. Joseph Smith's New England
Heritage.
Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Co, 1971.
[FHC collection] "Influences of Grandfathers
Solomon Mack and Asael Smith" [Call
Number 929.2/S]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Stewart, Cameron Ralph. Genealogical Classification
by Family Group Coding for
Descent from Common
Ancestors.
2 vols. Long Beach, CA: by author, c1986. 2
vol. Some families include: Stewart,
McMaster, Sarles, Sharrard, Bently, Shippen,
Baderow, Gjere, Miltzo. Title refers to the
numbering system used for this family history.
[Call Number 929.2/S]
Sturtevant, Robert Hunter. Descendants of Samuel
Sturtevant.
Waco, TX: by the author, 1986. Traces
descendants of Samuel Sturtevant (ca1624-
1669) of Plymouth, MA, some to 13
generations. Little narrative or documentation;
basic data on very large number of individuals.
[Call Number 929.2/S]
Chisamore, Donald R.,
transcr.
The 1875 and 1891 Diaries
of George K. Taber,
Pawling, New York.
[2006] Computer manuscript, 168pp. The
compiler has transcribed the contents of 2
diaries from the original volumes kept for the
year 1875 and for 1891 by George K. Taber, a
farmer of Pawling, NY who was active in his
local Baptist Church. Most diary entries are
relatively brief and straight-forward. They
always mention the weather, often record
financial transactions, and cover farm chores
done. The compiler has abstracted some of the
events for each year into separate lists -
funerals noted, notable events of the year,
goods purchased by Taber, Baptist Church
members. There is no index, per se, but Mr.
Chisamore does include a list of all the names
noted in each diary, with a separate list of
family members mentioned. [Call number
929.2/T]
Topp, Jon D. Pedigree of Jon David Topp
Including Much Quaker and
New England Ancestry.
Manuscript. Consists entirely of pedigree
charts, with every-name index. Dutchess
County connections include Smith & Garnsey.
[Call Number 929.2/T]
Wilcox, Marjorie
Scribner.
Tottens of America. Bowie, MD: Heritage Press, 1994. "A
Compilation of Research Consisting of Three
Parts: Documents and Writings by William
Davenport Totten [1858-1932, born Oneida
Co, NY, moved to MI] - Genealogy by the
Compiler - Miscellaneous Unconnected
Tottens." Related families: Bissell, Boyd,
Henderson, Morrell, Pearsall & Smith. [Call
Number 929.2/Tot]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
[Townsend, James &
Charlotte].
A Memorial of John, Henry,
and Richard Townsend, and
their descendants.
New York: W.A. Townsend, Publ., 1865.
Townsend family prominent in early history of
Oyster Bay, Long Island; some of them
migrated to Dutchess County. [Call Number
929.2/Tow]
Bell, Luena Y., comp. Townsend family history. Mostly family group sheets and some materials
collected from various sources. Townsend
family migrated from Long Island to the
Hudson Valley to Michigan. [Call Number
929.2/Tow]
Martin, Tom. Jonathan Bloom Uhl
Descendants; Town of Hyde
Park, Dutchess County, NY.
Computer-generated report in Register type
format starting with Jonathan Bloom Uhl (born
1801) who died in Clinton, NY in 1883.
Located in “Family File” under “Uhl”.
Shirley (Davenport)
Learned, comp.
Isaac Vale/Phebe Mitchell of
Dutchess County, New York:
Their descendants and
extended family.
Located in Family File Folder “Vail”. A
compilation of family records from private
family records, a published Moses Vail
genealogy by William Penn Vail, and a family
scrapbook. Outline descendancy chart to the
present. The compiler is interested in
contacting any interested descendants.
Van Alstine, Lester. Van Alstyne-Van Alstine
Family History Vol.1.
Provo, UT: J. Grant Stevenson, c1974.
Descendants of Jan Martense and wife Dircke
Harmense from Holland to Albany and Ulster
County. Related families - Alston, Elswaert,
Van Nostrand, Mingael, Bogart, Vosburgh,
Van Valkenburgh. [Call Number 929.2/V]
Van Benschoten, William
Henry.
Concerning the Van
Bunschoten or Van
Benschoten Family in
America.
Baltimore: Gateway, 1989 [reprint of 1907
edition]. Family was numerous in early
Dutchess County, NY. [Call Number
929.2/Van]
Van Demark, John W. et
al.
Van De Mark or Ven Der
Mark Ancestry.
Reprinted 1996 by Ulster County Genealogical
Society (orig. 1942). Part I: Europe 700AD to
1700 AD. Part II America 1665 AD to 1942
AD. Some related names include Brink, Benn,
Courtright, Decker, Hardenburgh, Hasbrouck,
Hornbeck, Jones, Krum, Markle/merkle,
Moore, Oosterhout, Pawling, Quick, Roosa,
Smith, Terwilliger, White, Williams, Winne.
[Call Number 929.2/V]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Poppe, Donald C. Van Imbroch /Van Imburgh
/Van Amburgh /Van
Emburgh Genealogy.
Manuscript genealogy; a computer-generated
Register-style report on the descendants of
Gysbert (Gilbert) Van Imbroch or Imbroeck,
Sr. (born about 1610 in Holland) whose
children emigrated to New Amsterdam. There
are 791 numbered descendants, some lines
followed to nine generations, with focus on the
Van Emburgh surname (and including the
Roosevelt presidents). Related names:
Concklin, cooper, Decker, Demarest, Ferdon /
Verdon, Hays, Herring, Van Keuren, King,
Koenig, Randolph, Roosevelt, Seger/Sager,
Smith, Spier, Sinsabaugh/Synsepaugh,
Terhune, Westervelt, Weeks. [Call Number
929.2/Van]
Through a Dutch Door. 17th
Century Origins of the Van
Voorhees Family.
Baltimore: Gateway Press (for the Van
Voorhees Association), c1992. Collection of
essays on Dutch origins of Steven Coerts from
Drenthe, The Netherlands to New Netherlands
in 1660. [Call Number 929.2/Van]
Christoph, Florence A.,
ed.
The Van Voorhees Family in
America. The First Six
Generations.
Baltimore: Gateway Press (for the Van
Voorhees Association), c2000. Immigrant
Steven Coerte VanVoorhees arrived in New
Netherlands from Holland in 1660. This well-
documented genealogy in Register format is
based on material collected by the Van
Voorhees Association since 1881 and
incorporates lines of the four-generation 1984
genealogy published by the Association.
Includes Dutchess County families
Brinkerhoff, Filkin, Vanbunschouten, Dubois,
Brett, Philips, Van Wyck, Horton, Flageler,
Rowe, Springsteen, VanNostrand, Southard,
Way, Schouten, Hyde, Schofield, Burroughs,
Adriance, Vail, Flewelling, Nagel, Thorn,
Wiltse, Storm, Cooper, Meyers, Hasbrook,
Haight, Conover, Needham, Rodgers,
VanForce, Monfort, Cornell, Dibblee, Childs,
Benaway, Masten. [Call Number 929.2/Van]
Van Wagenen, Carl S. The Genealogy of Jacob
Aertsen Van Wagenen of
Wageningen, Holland 1632-
1994.
Interlaken, NY: Windswept Press, 1994.
Follows early Dutch line, one of several with
surname Van Wagoner and variations. Earliest
Dutch surname in American line is Aertsen;
other related families - DeGraaf, Freer, Decker,
Allen, Terbush, Hageman, Van Vliet, Wilbur.
[Call Number 929.2/Van]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Vervalin, Eugene Henry. A Singular Distinction of
Time and the Vervalins -
Van Valins.
[Call Number 929.2/V]
Baselt, Fonda D.
(Wagner).
A Wagner Family Odyssey
From Germany to Russia to
America.
By the author, 1994. The historical
introduction is about a particular ethnic group,
the “Volga Germans”, Germans who settled
along the Volga River in Russia in the
eighteenth century, retaining their culture,
language and religions. Many of them migrated
to the United States in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth century. The emigrant
ancestor, George Wagner left Russia in 1902
and settled in Orange County, New York. The
book uses a standard Register numbering
system to follow six generations of the Wagner
family, with additional data on the related
Wilhelm and Rudy families. [Call Number
929.2/Wag]
Witthoft, Herman W., Sr.,
comp.
Waltermire Family Tree.
The Descendants of George
(Jury) Waldenmeyer,
emigrant to America.
1996. Family numerous in Dutchess &
Columbia counties. Related families include
Teal, Garret, Coonley, Cookingham, Marquart,
Stupplebeen, Butts, Carroll, Link. Modified
Register format from PAF computer program
with many sources included. [Call Number
929.2/W]
Poole, Mrs. Gordon L. Genealogy of Mildred Wood
Poole including Benedict,
Wood, Ward, Howard, Gray
and Cobb Families.
manuscript. Connected to the Ward family of
Pleasant Valley, NY. [Call Number
929.2/W]
Watson, Samuel E., Jr. Genealogy and History of the
Watson Family From Irish
Emigrants to Mayflower
Descendants.
Santa Rosa, CA, 1988. Descendants of
Matthew Watson and Mary Orr from Ireland
and Leicester, MA 1664-1988. Related
families: Bemis, Bent, Blackmore, Browning,
Bryant, Denny, Draper, Foster, Loring,
Maxfield, Patterson, Sadler, Studley, Thomas,
Washburn, Wheeler. [Call Number 929.2/W]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Way, Harry Abel,
compiler.
The New York Way Family.
Being the Descendants of
Sgt. James Way of Newtown,
Long Island.
From the records of Glenn C. Way, Niagara
Falls, New York. Charlestown, RI: by author,
c1995. Work is based on the papers of Glenn
Way, deceased. Some descendants of James
Way are carried to seven generations (female
lines followed for one generation). Sources
when given are usually cited only generally.
The descendants are listed using a letter
identification system. Members of the Way
family did settle in Dutchess County. [Call
Number 929.2/Way]
Weinberg, Arthur. My Five Lives: An
Autobiography.
Bluewater Bay, FL: AES Press, c1990.
Autobiography of a former mayor of
Poughkeepsie, NY, born in Brooklyn in 1923.
[Call Number 920/Wei]
Davison, Mary Lou and
Jim, comp.
Wigg: A Hyde Park Family.
John Wigg 1740-1808 and
Many of his Descendants.
Poughkeepsie, NY: by author, 1994.
John Wigg, English soldier, arrived to fight in
the French & Indian War, settled in Hyde Park,
NY. Related families - Schryver and Post.
[Call Number 929.2/Wig]
Wiley, Debra Lynn. The Wildey Daybook: a
ledger for Milan, Dutchess
County, New York, 1803-
1819.
Inglewood, CA: by author, 1986. Transcript of
ledger entries for a business in Milan.
Willett Jr., Albert James. The Willett Families of
North America.
Easely, SC: Southern Historical Press, c1985.
2 vol. "Being a comprehensive guide
encompassing Willett, Willet, Willette, Willitt,
Willit, Willets, Willetts, Willits and other
variations and early spellings of the Willett
surname." Covers 6 main lines in America
before 1670 as well as "surveying" a number of
geographic areas that include unconnected
families. [Call Number 929.2/Wil]
Stover, Margaret Harris,
C.G. (compiler).
The Descendants of Uldrich
Winegar of America,
Dutchess County, New York.
Punta Gorda, FL, 1998. Includes material
from “The Winegar Tree”, a family name
periodical published 1978-1989. 8 generations
of family history, some sources. [Call
Number 929.2/W]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Reeks, Lindsay S. Woodward/Woodard
Ancestors of New England.
Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1995.
Documented family history following
Woodward line from Massachusetts to
Connecticut to New York State and points
west for 10 generations. Related Dutchess
County names (5th generation Woodwards)
include Alderman & Hammond. [Call
Number 929.2/W]
Cruger, Douglas Wright
(comp.)
A Genealogical Dictionary
of Wright Families in the
Lower Hudson Valley to
1800.
Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, c1987. Focuses
on Wright migrations to & from Westchester
and Old Dutchess County, then Albany County
& west. Appendix of Wright estates after
1800. [Call Number 929.2/W]
COMPENDIUMS
Commemorative
Biographical Record of the
Counties of Dutchess and
Putnam, New York.
Chicago: Beers, 1897. [Call Number
974.77/Dut] Separate index.
Genealogies of Long Island
Families From the New York
Genealogical and
Biographical Record.
2 vol. Selected and Introduced by Henry B.
Hoff. Baltimore: Geneal. Publishing Co, 1987.
Articles from the Record printed in full with
additions and corrections. Includes families on
Long Island before 1750. [Call Number
974.7/G]
Anson, Shirley V. Index of the Commemorative
Biographical Record of
Dutchess County, NY.
Walton, NY: The Reporter Co., 1991. [Call
Number 974.77/Dut]
Bunker, Mary Powell,
comp.
Long Island Genealogies.
Being Kindred Descendants
of Thomas Powell of Beth
Page, L.I. 1688.
1990 reprint by Clearfield Co (orig. 1895).
Family groups with few cited sources - Powell,
Willets, Hallock, Titus, Townsend, Willis,
Seaman, Birdsall, Jackson, Merritt, Mott,
Pearsall, Underhill, Valentine, Whitman &
others. [Call Number 974.7/B]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Doherty, Frank J. Settlers of the Beekman
Patent, Dutchess County,
NY.
Pleasant Valley, NY: by the author, 1990+.
"An historical & genealogical study of all the
18 th century settlers in the Patent." [Call
Number 974.77/Dut]
Vol.1. Local historical records including
information on the lease system, Patent
records, road and military records.
Vol.2 Abbot to Burtch. 1993.
Vol. 3. Burtis to Dakin. 1995.
Vol.4 Darbyshire to Everitt. 1997.
Vol.5 Fackert to Haas. 1999. Additions &
corrections to Vol. 1-4; list of frequently used
references.
Vol. 6. Hadden to Hunt. 2002.
Vol.7 Hunter to Leavens. 2003.
Vol.8 Lee to Millington. 2005.
Penrose, Maryly B. Compendium of Early
Mohawk Valley Families.
2 Vols. Baltimore: GPC, 1990. Arranged by
family; extensive introduction with historical
background. Appendix A: Tryon County
Militia. Appendix B: 1790 Census of
Montgomery County. [Call Number 974.7/P]
Reynolds, Cuyler, editor. Genealogical and Family
History of Southern New
York and the Hudson River
Valley.
3 vol. NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Co.,
1914. Names in no particular order; some
trace history back to Europe for many
generations. [FHC collection] [Call Number
974.7/R]
Family Histories
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
CD-ROM Family History: Early New
York Families 1600s to
1900s.
Family Tree Maker’s Family Archives:
CD#157 (2 disks). c2000 Genealogy.com.
Family History of New York Vol.1-4 [Disk
1] Historic Homes and Institutions and
Genealogical and Family History of New York.
By William S. Pelletreau. Original 1907.
Reprint Clearfield Co., 1998. Index in Vol.4.
Hudson - Mohawk Family Memoirs Vol.1-4
[Disk 1] Hudson - Mohawk Genealogical and
Family Memoirs.... within the Present Counties
of Albany, Rensselaer, Washington, Saratoga,
Montgomery, Fulton, Schenectady, Columbia
and Greene. Ed. by Cuyler Reynolds. Original
1911. Reprint Clearfield Co., 1999. last
volume includes Historical Appendix,
Addenda & Errata, Index.
Family History of Southern NY Vol. 1-3
[Disk 2] Genealogical and Family History of
Southern New York and the Hudson River
Valley. Ed. by Cuyler Reynolds. Original
1914. Reprint Clearfield Co., 1997. last
volume includes Publisher’s Note, Addenda &
Errata, Index.
Family History of Central NY Vol. 1-3
[Disk 2] Genealogical and Family History of
Central New York. Ed. by William Richard
Cutter. Original 1912. Reprint Clearfield
1994. last volume includes Addenda & Errata,
Index.
Families of Western NY [Disk 2] Families of
Western NY. Originally published as Volume 1
of Genealogical and Family History of
Western New York (only Volume 1 has
material not included in other Cutter histories).
Ed. by William Richard Cutter. Original 1912.
Reprint with reformatted index Clearfield Co.,
1996. Family histories, Addenda & Errata,
Index.
New York and New England Families [Disk
2] Genealogical Notes of New York and New
England Families. Comp. by S.V Talcott.
Original 1888. Reprint Clearfield Co., 1994.
Includes 28 New York family histories and 24
New England family histories, and additional
miscellaneous Bible and burial records, and
various indexes.
CENSUS
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Clinton County [NY]
Abstract of the 1790 Federal
Census.
Central New York Genealogical Society.
Specially bound volume of Tree Talks, Vol.42
#4 (December, 2002) - shelved with regular
issues of Tree Talks quarterly. Includes outline
county and township maps, an abstract of
names and date in the order of enumeration,
and index.
Essex County [NY] Abstract
of the 1800 Federal Census.
Central New York Genealogical Society.
Specially bound volume of Tree Talks, Vol.41
#4 (December, 2001) - shelved with regular
issues of Tree Talks quarterly. Includes outline
county and township maps, an abstract of
names and date in the order of enumeration,
and index.
Heads of Families at the
First Census of the United
States Taken in the Year
1790 - Connecticut.
Baltimore: GPC, 1980. Reprint of 1908
original published by Gov. Printing Office.
Names are arranged within county, then
township in the order in which they were
recorded in the census. [Call Number
974.6/H]
Heads of Families at the
First Census of the United
States Taken in the Year
1790 - New York.
Baltimore: GPC, 1992. Reprint of 1908
original published by Gov. Printing Office.
Names are arranged within county, then
township in the order in which they were
recorded in the census. [Call Number
974.7/H]
Herkimer County [NY]
Abstract of the 1825 New
York State Census.
Central New York Genealogical Society.
Specially bound volume of Tree Talks, Vol.40
#4 (December, 1999), includes map and index.
Shelved with regular issues of Tree Talks
quarterly.
Jefferson County [NY]
Abstract of the 1825 New
York State Census (Towns L-
W).
Central New York Genealogical Society.
Specially bound volume of Tree Talks, Vol.44
#4 (December, 2004) - shelved with regular
issues of Tree Talks quarterly. Includes county
map, an abstract of names and date in the order
of enumeration, and index.
Census
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Oneida County [NY]
Abstract of the 1800 Federal
Census.
Central New York Genealogical Society.
Specially bound volume of Tree Talks, Vol.40
#4 (December, 2000) - shelved with regular
issues of Tree Talks quarterly. Includes outline
county and township maps, an abstract of
names and date in the order of enumeration,
and index.
Surnames Listed in the 1790
United States Census.
Reprinted from A Century of Population
Growth, GPO, 1909. Lists all surnames and
variations represented by at least 100 persons.
[Call Number 929.3/S]
Washington County [NY]
Abstract of the 1825 New
York State Census.
Central New York Genealogical Society.
Specially bound volume of Tree Talks, Vol.38
#4 (December, 1998) - shelved with regular
issues of Tree Talks quarterly.
Armstrong, Barbra Kay
(comp.)
Index to the 1800 Census of
New York.
Baltimore: GPC, 1984. Includes head of
household, county, census page number. [Call
Number 974.7/A]
Buck, Clifford M. and
Leonora V.
[1850] Census, Town of
Amenia, Dutchess County,
NY.
1983. Index and extract of the 1850 Federal
census for the town. [Call number
974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. and
Leonora V.
[1850] Census, Town of
Beekman, Dutchess County,
NY.
1983. Index and extract of the 1850 Federal
census for the town. [Call number
974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. 1850 Census, Town of
Clinton, Dutchess County,
NY.
1978. Index and extract of the 1850 Federal
census for the town. [Call number
974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. The 1850 Census of Town of
Dover.
1982. Index and extract of the 1850 Federal
census for the town. [Call number
974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. and
Leonora V.
1850 Census of Town of East
Fishkill.
1982. Index and extract of the 1850 Federal
census for the town. [Call number
974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. and
Leonora V.
1850 Census of Town of
Fishkill, Dutchess County,
NY.
1990. Index and extract of the 1850 Federal
census for the town. [Call number
974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. and
Leonora V.
1850 Census of Town of
Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, NY.
Index and extract of the 1850 Federal census
for the town. [Call number 974.77/Dut]
Census
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Buck, Clifford M. 1850 Census of LaGrange,
Dutchess County, NY.
Index and extract of the 1850 Federal census
for the town. [Call number 974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. and
Leonora V.
1850 Census of Town of
Milan, Dutchess County, NY.
1990. Index and extract of the 1850 Federal
census for the town. [Call number
974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. and
Leonora V.
1850 Census of Town of
Northeast, Dutchess County,
NY.
1990. Index and extract of the 1850 Federal
census for the town. [Call number
974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. and
Leonora V.
1850 Census of Town of Pine
Plains, Dutchess County,
NY.
1990. Index and extract of the 1850 Federal
census for the town. [Call number
974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. 1850 Census of Pleasant
Valley, Dutchess County,
NY.
Index and extract of Federal census for 1850.
[Call number 974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. and
Leonora V.
1850 Census of the Town of
Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co,
NY.
1994. Index and extract of the 1850 Federal
census for the town. [Call number
974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. and
Leonora V.
1850 Census of Town of Red
Hook, Dutchess County, NY.
1990. Index and extract of the 1850 Federal
census for the town. [Call number
974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. and
Leonora V.
[1850] Census, Town of
Stanford, Dutchess County,
NY.
1979. Index and extract of the 1850 Federal
census for ths town. [Call number
974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. and
Leonora V.
1850 Census of Town of
Union Vale.
Index and extract of the 1850 Federal census
for the town. Also published in The Dutchess
Vol.7-8. [Call number 974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. 1850 Census of Town of
Washington, Dutchess
County, NY.
Index and extract of the 1850 Federal census
for the town. [Call number 974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. and
Leonora V.
1850 and 1865 Census of
Town of Pawling.
Index and extract of the 1850 Federal census
and the 1865 New York state census. [Call
number 974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. and
Leonora V.
1865 Census, Town of
Amenia, Dutchess County,
NY.
1983. Index and extract of 1865 New York
state census. [Call number 974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. and
Leonora V.
1865 Census, Town of
Beekman, Dutchess County,
NY.
1983. Index and extract of 1865 New York
state census. [Call number 974.77/Dut]
Census
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Buck, Clifford M. 1865 Census of Clinton,
Dutchess County, NY.
1978. Index and extract of 1865 New York
state census. [Call number 974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. and
Leonora V.
The 1865 Census of Town of
Dover.
1982. Index and extract of 1865 New York
state census. [Call number 974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. and
Leonora V.
The 1865 Census of Town of
East Fishkill.
1983. Index and extract of 1865 New York
state census. [Call number 974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. and
Leonora V.
The 1865 Census of Town of
Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, NY.
Index and extract of 1865 New York state
census. [Call number 974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. 1865 Census of LaGrange,
Dutchess County, NY.
Index and extract of New York state census for
1865. [Call number 974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. 1865 Census of Town of
Milan, Dutchess County, NY.
Index and extract of 1865 New York state
census. [Call number 974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. 1865 Census of Pleasant
Valley, Dutchess County,
NY.
Index and extract of New York state census for
1865. [Call number 974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. and
Leonora V.
1865 Census of Town of
Rhinebeck, Dutchess County,
NY.
1994. Index and extract of 1865 New York
state census. [Call number 974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. and
Leonora V.
1865 Census, Town of
Stanford, Dutchess County,
NY.
1979. Index and extract of 1865 New York
state census. [Call number 974.77/Dut]
Buck, Clifford M. 1865 Census of Town of
Washington, Dutchess
County, NY.
Index and extract of 1865 New York state
census. [Call number 974.77/Dut]
Census
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Dollarhide, William. New York State Censuses
and Substitutes.
Bountiful, UT: HeritageCreations, 2005.
Includes tables of federal and state census
available on microfilm. Part 1 covers each of
the 62 counties in the state discussing
availability of state censuses (original, extracts,
indexes, etc), state copies of original Federal
census records, census substitutes and selected
name lists (e.g., indexes to deeds, taxes, some
vital records, directories, etc), and online
census databases. Part 2 includes 19 county
boundary maps covering the period 1683 to the
present. Part 3 shows examples of actual state
census schedules and extraction forms which
can be used in personal research. [Call
Number 974.7/D]
Fay, Loren V. Quaker Census of 1828. Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1989. "Members of
the New York Yearly Meeting, The Religious
Society of Friends (In NY, Ontario, VT, CT,
MA and Quebec), at the time of the Separation
of 1828"; endsheet map. [Call Number
974.7/F]
Greene, Evarts B. &
Virginia D. Harrington.
American Population before
the Federal Census of 1790.
Baltimore: GPC, c1932, 1981. A statistical
compilation (no names) of population data in
widely scattered sources. Little explanatory
information, but sources for all numbers are
given. Arranged by state. [Call Number
972/G]
Kane, Beverly Burroughs,
transcr.
Census No.2, Village of
Rhinebeck, Jany 15, 1898.
Manuscript includes photocopies of the
original with transcript and index (original in
Rhinebeck public library). Enumeration of the
population of Rhinebeck Village done in
January, 1898, District #2 being north of East
Market St. and east of Garden St. [Call
number 974.77/Dut]
Kelly, Nancy. 1850 Federal Census, Town
of Rhinebeck.
Transcription in census order includes family
number, name, age, sex, color, occupation,
value of real estate and birthplace with an
everyname index. [Call number 974.77/Dut]
Lainhart, Ann S. State Census Records. Baltimore: GPC, c1992. Inventory of all state
census records. [Call Number 929.1/Lai]
Losee, Clara (comp.) 1865 Census of Town of Red
Hook, Dutchess County, NY.
Index and extract of New York State census
for 1865. [Call number 974.77/Dut]
Census
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Threlfall, John Brooks. Heads of Families at the
Second Census of the United
States taken in the year 1800
New Hampshire.
Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc, 1987.
(reprint) Indexed, includes names of heads of
household as well as the data in the census.
[Call Number 974.2/T]
White, Evelyn Jean. San Diego County,
California Census Index
1900.
North San Diego County Genealogical Society
and the Carlsbad City Library, 1981. Heads of
Household index and anyone with a surname
that differs from the head of household in
which they are included. [Call Number
979.4/W]
[Microfilm]
United States.
Bureau of the Census.
New York: Dutchess County
population census schedules
for 1790 to 1930.
Microfilm of original records in The National
Archives, Washington, D.C. Microfilm for
Dutchess County only for all available federal
census years; except 1810 census, for which
we have census microfilm for the entire United
States.
MILITARY RECORDS, PENSIONS, LOYALISTS, ETC
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
CD-ROM Military Records: New York
in the Revolution and the
War of 1812.
Family Tree Maker’s Family Archives series –
FTM CD #143. Genealogy.com, c2000.
Digitized copies of the following books
published in reprint by Genealogical
Publishing Company of Baltimore:
Fernow, Berthold, ed. New York in the
Revolution. Clearfield, 1999. (Orig. publ. as
Volume XV of Documents Relating to the
Colonial History of the State of New York.)
New York in the Revolution as Colony and
State, 2 vol. in 1, 1996. (Orig. publ. as New
York in the Revolution as Colony and State,
second edition, by James A. Roberts,
Comptroller (Albany, 1898); and New York in
the Revolution as Colony and State Vol.2
(supplement), comp. by Frederick G. Mather
(Albany, 1901).
Orderly Book of the Three Battalions of
Loyalists Commanded by Brigadier-General
Oliver De Lancey, 1776-1778. [with] List of
New York Loyalists in the City of New York
During the War of the Revolution. 1972 (Orig.
1917).
Mather, Frederic Gregory. The Refugees of
1776 From Long Island to Connecticut. 1972
(orig 1913).
New York Colonial Muster Rolls, 1664-1775.
2 vol. 1999. (Orig. published as Second
Annual Report of the State Historian of the
State of New York, Appendix H, Albany,
1897. And as Third Annual Report of the State
Historian of the State of New York, Appendix
M, Albany, 1898).
Muster and Pay Rolls of the War of the
Revolution 1775-1783. 1996. 2 Vol in 1.
(Orig. publ. 1916 as Collections of the New-
York Historical Society for the years 1914 and
1915)
Index of Awards on Claims of the Soldiers of
the War of 1812. Reprinted by GPC, 1969.
(Orig. publ. by New York Adjutant-General's
Office, Albany, 1860.)
Military references
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
CD-ROM Roll of Honor: Civil War
Union Soldiers.
Broderbund Software, c1996. (FTM Family
Archives CD#351.) Orig. publ. by
Genealogical Publishing Company. Names of
soldiers who died in the Civil War with burial
place in national cemeteries.
The Balloting Book and
other documents relating to
Military Bounty Lands in the
State of New-York.
Higginson reprint, 2004. (Orig. printed by
Packard & VanBenthuysen, Albany, 1825).
Includes various legislative acts relating to the
bounty lands; extracts of minutes of the Land-
Office; townships and lots in the Military Tract
listed in numerical order with the names of
those who received the lots; "Balloting Book"
listing each New York regiment with each
soldier's name (roughly alphabetical), rank,
township name and lot number of the bounty
land awarded, and acreage of the lot awarded,
1785-1790; alphabetical list of persons
awarded bounty land and to whom they
delivered patents to the land, etc. [Call
Number 974.7/B]
Maine Revolutionary
Soldiers’ Graves.
Golden Jubilee Project 1940. Daughters of the
American Revolution of Maine. Booklet lists
the graves of Revolutionary War soldiers
identified and marked by the Maine chapter of
the DAR. [Call Number 974.1/M]
New York in the Revolution
as Colony and State. Vol.1
Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon Co, 1904 (Reprint).
"A compilation of documents and records from
the Office of the State Comptroller". Lists of
NY men serving in the Revolutionary War
derived from original muster & payrolls of line
regiments, levies & militia. [Call Number
974.7/N]
The Pension Roll of 1835. Indexed Edition in 4 Volumes. Baltimore:
GPC, 1992. Originally published by U.S. War
Dept, 1835. Most complete officially
published roll of Revolutionary War
pensioners. Name and service record of
60,700 soldiers, regulars and militia. Tabular
format, arranged by state. [Call Number
973/P]
Military references
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Revolutionary Pensioners of
1818.
Baltimore: Southern Book Co, 1959 (originally
published 1818). Report of the Secretary of
War of all pensioners of the United States, the
annual sum paid, and the states where the
pensioners are paid. Column format, by state,
alphabetical. [Call Number 351/R]
Bunnell, Paul J. The New Loyalist Index. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1989. Indexes
29 published & unpublished sources of
Loyalists who settled in Canada. Entries
include name, source, and (when known) brief
vital statistics, where from, where settled,
Regiment served and claims made. [Call
Number 929.3/B]
Callahan, Edward W.,
compiler.
List of Officers of the Navy
of the United States and of
the Marine Corps from 1775
to 1900.
NY: L.R. Hammersly & Co, 1901. Also
medals awarded, promotions & lists of vessels
of war. [Call Number 353/C]
Coldham, Peter Wilson. American Loyalist Claims.
Vol.1.
Washington, D.C.: NGS, 1980. Loyalists
submitting claims for losses from records of
the American Claims Commisssion in England
- covered Loyalists from all 13 colonies
resident in Canada and the West Indies. [Call
Number 929.3/C]
Crowder, Norman K. Early Ontario Settlers. A
Source Book.
Baltimore: GPC, c1993. Compilation of
official documents on discharged British and
German soldiers as well as American
Loyalists. Consists chiefly of provisioning
lists of 1784 & 1786, arranged by town. [Call
Number 929.3/C]
De Lancey, Edward F.
(ed.)
Muster Rolls of New York
Provincial Troops 1755-
1764.
Heritage Classic reprint, 1990. (Originally
Collections of the New York Historical
Society, 1891). [Call Number 974.7/L]
Military references
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Fernow, Berthold, ed. New York in the Revolution. Baltimore: Clearfield, 2000. Reprint of
Volume XV of Documents Relating to the
Colonial History of the State of New York.
State Archives, Vol. 1, publ. Albany, 1887.
Lists 40,000 soldiers divided into four main
sections: 1) transcriptions of the proceedings
of the Provincial Congress, Committee of
Safety, and the Convention of New York
relating to military matters; 2) members of the
New York Line of the Continental Army,
giving the soldier's name, date of enlistment,
term of enlistment, and date discharged,
deserted, deceased, etc.; 3) listings of Levies
and Militia, arranged by county - usually
rosters indicate date the regiment was formed
and the names of officers and enlisted men; 4)
Alphabetical Roster of State Troops - gives
soldier's name, rank, regiment, company, and
occasional notes) Appendix includes lists of
wounded, and invalid pension recipients,
among other items. [Call Number 974.7/F]
Fraser, Alexander. United Empire Loyalists.
Enquiry into the Losses and
Services in Consequence of
Their Loyalty - Evidence in
the Canadian Claims.
2 vol. Baltimore: GPC, 1994. Reprint of
“Second Report of the Bureau of Archives for
the Province of Ontario”, 1904. Contains
records of the claims for losses of over 1200
loyalists who fled to Canada during and
immediately after the Revolutionary War.
Includes extensive notes taken by the
Commissioners who heard the claimants from
1783 to 1790. May include claimant's name,
country or place of origin, reason for
emigrating, date of migration, place of
residence in America, occupation, names of
family members and friends, location and
value of confiscated property, war service
rendered, losses sustained, evidence of
character, statements of witnesses, notes of
deeds and wills, and highlights of the
claimant's experiences during the war. [Call
Number 929.3/F]
Heitman, Francis B. Historical Register and
Dictionary of the United
States Army, from its
organization, September 29,
1789 to March 2, 1903.
Washington, DC: GPO, 1903. 2 vol.
Commissioned officers, some lists of
Confederate officers, all killed & wounded
from various wars, list of wars & battles, forts
& camps, etc. [Call Number 353.6/H]
Military references
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
House, Charles J., comp. Names of Soldiers of the
American Revolution who
applied for [Maine] State
Bounty
“under Resolves of March 17, 1835, March 24,
1836, and March 20 1838 as appears of Record
in Land Office.” Augusta, Maine, 1893. Entry
in alphabetical list of veterans may include
name of town where residing when applied for
benefits, and place where enlisted; widows
applications may include place & date of
death, name & residence of widow, name of
second husband if remarried. [Call Number
974.1/N]
Illinois State Genealogical
Society.
Soldiers of the American
Revolution Buried in Illinois.
By the Society, 1976. Alphabetical listing of
veterans with indexes by county and by
spouse's name. [Call Number 977.3/I]
Mather, Frederic Gregory. The Refugees of 1776 From
Long Island to Connecticut.
Heritage Classic Reprint, 1990. 2 Vols. (from
orig ed: Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon, 1913.)
Biographies of over 1200 refugees who left
Long Island after it was surrendered to the
British in 1776. Some of the refugees moved
from CT to Dutchess County, NY. [Call
Number 974.7/M]
Peterson, Clarence
Stewart.
Known Military Dead
During the American
Revolutionary War 1775-
1783.
Clearfield Co, Reprint, 1990 (orig. ed. 1959).
Name, company served in, died or killed, date
of death, occasionally place of death. [Call
Number 929.3/P]
Powell, Col. Wm. H.,
compiler.
List of Officers of the Army
of the United States from
1779 to 1900.
New York: L.R. Hamersly & Co, 1900.
Various lists of composition of Army as of
various dates, largest section being
alphabetical “Army List 1815-1900”, giving
details of service. [Call Number 353.6/P]
Reeks, Lindsay. Ontario Loyalist Ancestors. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1992. Concentrates
on families of Beatty, Birch/Burtch, Green,
Kerrison, Mott, Rathbone and Swain. [Call
Number 929.3/R]
Rumer, Thomas A. The American Legion. An
Official History 1919-1989.
NY: M. Evans & Co, c1990. [Call Number
369/Rum]
Van Wyck, Richard T. A War to Petrify the Heart:
the Civil War Letters of a
Dutchess County, N.Y.
Volunteer.
Edited by Virginia H. Kaminsky.
Hensonville, NY: Black Dome Press, 1997.
[Call Number 973.7/Van]
Military references
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Vincent, Gerald R. The Civil Sword. James
Delancey’s Westchester
Refugees 1776-1785.
Duncan, BC, Canada: Cobequid Press, c1997.
History of Loyalist militia raised by James
Delancey, many of whom left for Nova Scotia
after the Revolution. Includes abstracts of
refugee claims to the British & reconstructed
muster list. [Call Number 974.77/Wes]
White, Virgil D., transcr. Index to the Revolutionary
War Pension Files.
4 vol. Waynesboro, TN: National Historical
Publishing Co, 1995. Names abstracted from
NARA microfilm; information may include
name of veteran, aliases, widow (with surname
if remarried), appl. files, date of claim, etc.
[Call Number 351/W]
White, Virgil D., transcr. Index to War of 1812
Pension Files.
3 vol. Waynesboro, TN: National Historical
Publishing Co, 1989. Names abstracted from
NARA microfilm; information may include
name of veteran, aliases, widow (with surname
if remarried), appl. files, date of claim, etc.
[Call Number 351/W]
White, Virgil D.,
transcriber.
Index to Old Wars Pension
Files 1815-1926.
2 vol. Waynesboro, TN: National Historical
Publishing Co, 1987. Names abstracted from
NARA microfilm Publ. T316; information
may include name of veteran, aliases, widow
(with surname if remarried), # of cert, appl.
files, date of claim, service dates or war, state
from which claim made. [Call Number
351/W]
NEW YORK STATE OUTSIDE DUTCHESS COUNTY
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
COLUMBIA COUNTY, NY
History of Columbia County,
New York
“with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers.”
Philadelphia: Everts & Ensign, 1878. (Reprint)
[Call Number 974.77/Col]
Quaker Records of the
Hudson Monthly Meeting,
Columbia County, New York
1783+.
NY: Kinship, c1999. 130pp, indexed. Birth,
marriage, death, and removal records extracted
and arranged alphabetically by name (format
similar to Hinshaw volumes). [Call Number
974.77/Col]
Divine, A.L. Columbia County, NY
Gravestone Inscriptions.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1991. Introductory
material about gravestones and county history.
Everyname index of 9 previously compiled
lists including Kelly's “Settlers & Residents”
series for Germantown, Clermont &
Livingston; French's Rev. War Veterans;
Barber's manuscript volumes; Divine's Old &
unusual tombstones; Kern's Austerlitz and
Kelly's city of Hudson cemeteries. [Call
Number 974.77/Col]
Divine, Albert L. (comp.) Index to History of Columbia
County, New York by
Captain Benjamin F. Ellis.
Reprint by Palatine, 1988. [Call Number
974.77/Col]
Divine, Gerda E. Old Tombstones & Unusual
Cemeteries in Columbia
County, NY.
Vol.1, Part 1. Hillsdale, NY: Graphos, c1973.
Includes inscriptions from 30 cemeteries in
eastern Columbia county. [Call Number
974.77/Col]
Gebhard, Elizabeth L. The Parsonage Between Two
Manors. Annals of Clover-
Reach.
Third ed. Hudson, NY: The Hudson Press,
1925. Social history of Reformed Dutch
Church of Claverack, Columbia County during
the fifty-year service (1776-1816) of Rev. John
Gabriel Gebhard in the Lower Van Rensselaer
Manor bordering Livingston Manor to the
south. [Call Number 974.77/Col]
NYS outside Dutchess
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Baptism Records of the
Gallatin Reformed Church,
Gallatinville, New York.
Also known at various times as: Stissing
Church, Reformed Dutch Church of
Greenbush, Vedder Church 1748-1899.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, c1968. [Call
Number 974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Baptism Record of
Kinderhook Reformed Dutch
Church, Kinderhook, New
York 1718-1899.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, c1985. [Call
Number 974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C.M. Baptism Record, Linlithgo
Reformed Church,
Livingston, NY 1722-1899.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kelly, 1968. [Call Number
974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Baptism Record of Reformed
Church, Claverack, New
York 1727-1899.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, c1970. [Call
Number 974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Baptism Record Reformed
Church, West Copake, New
York 1783-1899.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, c1969. [Call
Number 974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Baptism Record of St.
Thomas Lutheran Church,
Churchtown, Columbia
County, New York (Lutheran
Church of Claverack) 1760-
1899.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, c1969. [Call
Number 974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Baptism and Marriage
Records of the Reformed
Churches of Ghent, West
Ghent, Mount Pleasant, and
Stuyvesant Falls [New York]
1775-1899.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, c1972. [Call
Number 974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C.M. Baptismal Record of Christ
Lutheran Church,
Germantown, NY 1746-1899.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1972. [Call Number
974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Baptismal Record of
Reformed Church of
Germantown, NY 1729-1898.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1969. The
Germantown church also served northern
Dutchess County. [Call Number 974.77/Col]
NYS outside Dutchess
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Baptismal Records of
Reformed Dutch Church,
Hillsdale, New York (Krum
Church) (Dutch Church of
New Claverack) 1776-1849.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, c1970. [Call
Number 974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Baptismal Record of St.
John’s Evangelical Lutheran
Church, Manorton, N.Y.
(Lutheran Church of Livingston) 1765-1872.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, c1971. [Call
Number 974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Hudson, New York
Newspapers, Volume 1
Deaths.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1979. Includes
published death records from “The Balance
and Columbian Repository” for 1802-181; and
for “The Rural Repository or Bower of
Literature” 1824-1851. [Call Number
974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Hudson, New York
Newspapers, Volume 2
Marriages & Miscellaneous.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, c1979. Includes
published marriage records from “The Balance
and Columbian Repository” for 1802-1822;
and for “The Rural Repository or Bower of
Literature” 1824-1851. Some of the
miscellaneous materials includes a lists of
ministers and Justices mentioned in the
marriage notices, notices of runaways,
insolvents for 1811, a few accidents and 2
divorces/separations. [Call Number
974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C.M. Marriage Record of Four
Lutheran Congregations of
Southern Columbia County,
NY.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1974. Includes St.
John's Lutheran, Manorton; St. Thomas
Lutheran, Churchtown; Christ Lutheran,
Germantown; Sylvania Lutheran in Barrytown,
Dutchess Co. [Call Number 974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C.M. Marriage Record of Four
Reformed Congregations in
the Towns of: Germantown,
Gallatin, Copake, and
Hillsdale, Columbia County,
NY 1736-1899.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1971. Germantown
Reformed 1736-1899; Gallatin Reformed
1755-1899; West Copake Reformed 1784-
1899; Hillsdale Reformed 1781-1792. [Call
Number 974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Marriage Record of
Kinderhook Reformed Dutch
Church, Kinderhook, New
York 1717-1899.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, c1986. [Call
Number 974.77/Col]
NYS outside Dutchess
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Marriage Record of
Linlithgo Reformed Dutch
Church, Livingston, New
York 1723-1899.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, c1970. [Call
Number 974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Marriage Record of
Reformed Church,
Claverack, New York 1727-
1899.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, c1970. [Call
Number 974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C.M. Old Gravestones of
Columbia County, New York.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1996. Gravestone
inscriptions read in the 1920s and 1930s and
recorded in manuscript form by various
recorders, now compiled by town and indexed.
[Call Number 974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C.M. Settlers & Residents, Vol.1,
Part 1. Town of Germantown
1710-1899.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1973. Various lists,
muster rolls, immigration lists, Livingston
papers, and death records - church, town and
census mortality schedules. [Call Number
974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C.M. Settlers & Residents, Vol.1,
Part 2 - Germantown 1710-
1899.
Rhinebeck, NY: by author, 1973. Abstracted
censuses for the town Federal 1790-1870 and
state 1855, 1865, 1875. [Call Number
974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C.M. Settlers and Residents Vol.2,
Part 1. Town of Clermont
1756-1899.
Rhinbeck, NY: Kelly, c1975. Includes some
Livingston town records, road records, Civil
War soldiers, gravestone inscriptions, Federal
census mortality schedules, Town clerk death
records 1881-1899, Daybooks of Dr. William
Wilson 1787-1813 (he also served northern
Dutchess). [Call Number 974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C.M. Settlers and Residents Vol.2,
Part 2. Town of Clermont
1790-1875.
Rhinbeck, NY: Kelly, c1975. Extracts all
Federal censuses 1790 to 1870 and state
censuses of 1855, 1865, and 1875. [Call
Number 974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C.M. Settlers and Residents Vol.3,
Part 1. Town of Livingston
1710-1899.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kelly, c1978. Includes reprint
history of the town, various vital statistics, etc.
Also Addenda to Vol. 1 on Germantown.
[Call Number 974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C.M. Settlers and Residents Vol.3
Part 2. Town of Livingston
1790-1875.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kelly, c1976. Extracts all
Federal censuses 1790 to 1870 and state
censuses of 1855, 1865, and 1875. [Call
Number 974.77/Col]
NYS outside Dutchess
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Kelly, Arthur C.M. Settlers & Residents, Vol.3,
Part 3. Town of Livingston
1803-1850.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1989. Road lists
abstracted from original town records. [Call
Number 974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Vital Records of
Ancramdale Presbyterian
Church, Ancramdale,
Columbia County, NY 1877-
1993.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 2004. Includes
Baptisms 1888-1993, Marriages 1887-1989,
Deaths 1887-1916, Members 1877-1952. [Call
Number 974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Vital Records of the Christ
Lutheran Church, Ghent,
Columbia County, New York
1801-1901.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, c1993. [Call
Number 974.77/Col]
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Vital Records of St. John’s
Lutheran Church, Ancram,
Columbia County, New York
1846-1945.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, c2002. [Call
Number 974.77/Col]
Proper, Rev. Gordon R.,
compiler.
City of Hudson Burying
Grounds Interments 1829-
1873, Hudson, Columbia
County, New York.
Presented by Arthur C. M. Kelly. Rhinebeck,
NY: Kinship, c1986. [Call Number
974.77/Col]
PUTNAM COUNTY, NY
A Handbook for Putnam
County History and
Genealogy 1996.
Compiled by the Office of the Putnam County
(NY) Historian. Pamphlet, 8½ x 11, 38 pages.
Located in Subject File - "Putnam County,
NY". Includes place names and boundaries, 2
maps, basic bibliography, names and addresses
of historical & genealogical repositories,
offices, groups, societies, etc at county and
town level.
Today in History. Almanac
of Putnam County.
Produced by Brewster High School Chapter of
the National Honor Society. n.d. [1976?].
Includes historical notes for days of the year
with anecdotes, helpful hints, recipes, etc.
[Call Number 974.77/Put]
NYS outside Dutchess
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
[Map] The Town of Carmel,
Putnam County, N.Y.
showing land parcels and the owners and
occupants thereof during the years after the
American Revolution and also indicating
present day points of interest; redrawn and
published to commemorate the Town
Bicentennial, March 17, 1995. Map (approx.
22x34 inches) - “as compiled and drafted from
deeds, mortgages, and a field book of John
Conklin’s survey made in 1810, by Henry S.
Conklin, 1886-1887". Located in Subject
Vertical File under “Putnam County”.
Buys, Barbara Smith. Old Gravestones of Putnam
County, NY.
Gateway Press, 1975. "Together with
information from ten adjacent Dutchess
County Burying Grounds." 11,800 inscriptions
of persons born up to and including 1850.
[Call Number 974.77/Put]
Greene, Marilyn Cole
(comp.)
Town Minutes, Town of
Carmel, Putnam County, NY
1795-1839.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1990. Carmel was
formed from Fredrickstown in 1795 when it
was still part of Dutchess County. [Call
Number 974.77/Put]
Pelletreau, William S. History of Putnam County,
New York.
Second ed. Brewster, NY: 1988. (Reprint;
original publ. Philadelphia, WW Preston,
1886). [Call Number 974.77/Put]
Wheeler, Glendon E.,
compiler.
Burials and Gravestones.
Families Associated with
Putnam County, New York.
“A Supplement to Other Burial
Documentation.” Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship,
1998. Covers Putnam County cemeteries, as
well as selected data from cemeteries in
Dutchess and Westchester Counties, and
Connecticut. [Call Number 974.77/Put]
Wheeler, Glendon E., ed. Carmel Newspapers, Putnam
County, N.Y. Marriages and
Deaths, 1849-1873.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1999. Edited and
indexed from original copy by Eastern States
Mission from newspapers “Putnam County
Democrat” (1849-1852) and its successor
“Putnam County Courier” (1852-1873). [Call
Number 974.77/Put]
Wheeler, Glendon E.,
compiler.
Extract and Alphabetical
Index of the 1860 Federal
Census M653-842. Town of
Kent, Putnam County, New
York.
Wheeler Historical Society, 15428 Dracena
Ave, Moorpark, CA 93021. 1988. Index
section includes date of death & burial place
where known. [Call Number 974.77/Put]
NYS outside Dutchess
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Wheeler, Glendon E.,
compiler.
Index of Gravestones for the
People of Putnam County,
New York.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1997. Indexes
names in 11 published cemetery sources that
include Putnam County families, arranged in
one alphabetical listing. [Call Number
974.77/Put]
Wheeler, Glendon E., ed. Town Records
Frederickstown to Kent,
1788-1841,
Dutchess/Putnam Counties,
New York.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, c2002.
Fredericksburgh in South Precinct of Dutchess
County became Frederickstown and included
present Putnam County towns of Kent, Carmel
and parts of Patterson and Southeast until
1795. Frederickstown 1795-1817 took the
name Kent in 1817. This is a transcription of a
microfilmed town ledger now in the Putnam
County Historian’s Office. These records cover
all of the activities of town meetings including
officers for all town offices, oaths of office,
boundaries, votes, ear marks, road records,
school districts, etc. There are no 1821 entries.
[Call Number 974.77/Put]
NEW YORK STATE
- OTHER AREAS
CD-ROM City Directories: New York
1886-1894. Selected Cities &
Years.
Ancestry.com c2000 MyFamily.com, Inc.
Twenty-nine city and business directories from
New York were digitized and indexed to
produce this CD-ROM. The specific directory
title is noted within each record. Cities and
counties included in these directories are:
Albany, Amsterdam, Auburn, Binghamton,
Brooklyn, Buffalo, Elmira, Glens Falls,
Gloversville, Hudson, Ithaca, Kingston,
Morristown, Mt. Vernon, Newburgh, Oneida,
Orleans, Oswego, Poughkeepsie, Rochester,
Rome, Saratoga Springs, Steuben County, St.
Lawrence County, Troy, Utica, Watertown,
Syracuse.
Complete Index to Colonial
Laws and Ordinances of
New Netherlands and New
York 1638-1775.
6 volumes reprinted in 1. Knightstown, IN:
Bookmark, 1977. Indexed by subject and
names of persons for each volume with a brief
abstract of colonial law. Many of these
transactions were more of a civil nature than
legislative, the kind that would later be taken
care of in county courts. [Call Number
974.7/C]
NYS outside Dutchess
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Early Wills of Orange
County, New York.
2 volumes in 1. Goshen, NY: Orange Co. Gen.
Society, 1997. Reprint. Vol.1 Abstracts of
wills 1731-1788: Orange & Ulster County
wills on file Surrogate’s office, City of New
York. Vol.2 Abstracts of Wills 1787-1830,
Orange County Surrogates Office, Goshen,
NY. Includes wills filed in places other than
Orange County, such as New York City;
especially important before Surrogate’s Courts
were established for each county in 1787.
[Call Number 974.77/Ora]
Index to the 1881 Ruttenber
and Clark History of Orange
County, New York.
Compiled by Orange county Genealogical
Society. Goshen, NY: OCGS, 1979. [Call
Number 974.77/Ora]
New Hurley, NY. Reformed
Church Rt. 208 Cemetery
Records.
Old Part of Cemetery. New Part of Cemetery.
Gravestones listed in order found, no index.
[Call Number 974.77/Uls]
Anjou, Gustave. Ulster County, New York
Probate Records in the
Office of the Surrogate, and
in the County Clerk’s Office
at Kingston, New York.
Rhinebeck, NY: Palatine Transcripts. index.
(reprint of 1906 original, 2 volumes in 1).
Abstracts of Dutch and English wills and
Letters of Administration from 1665. [Call
Number 974.77/Uls]
Anson, Shirley V. Quaker History and
Genealogy of the
Marlborough Monthly
Meeting, Ulster County, NY
1804-1900+.
Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1980. [Call
Number 974.77/Uls]
Banta, Theodore M. Some Early Records of the
Lutheran Church, NY 1704-
1772.
As presented in the Yearbook of the Holland
Society of New York 1903. Rhinebeck, NY:
Kinship, 1997. Photocopy reprint of original
yearbook article with its index. [Call Number
974.7/B]
NYS outside Dutchess
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Barr, F. Richard, transcr. Church of the Assumption,
Syracuse, NY. Baptisms
1844-1860.
Central New York Genealogical Society,
December 2004. 160 pp., indexed. Specially
bound volume of the quarterly Tree Talks,
Vol.46 #4 (December, 2006) - shelved with
regular issues of Tree Talks quarterly [Call
number 974.77 / Ono]. This Catholic Church
was incorporated by German immigrants to the
area, but also served the general area, including
the many Irish who were immigrating in large
numbers at the time. Entries usually include
names of child, parents and sponsors, date of
birth, date of baptism, and name of officiating
priest.
Bowman, Fred Q. &
Thomas J. Lynch.
7,000 Hudson-Mohawk
Valley (NY) Vital Records
1808-1850.
Baltimore: GPC, c1997. Newspaper extracts
of vital record events from 15 papers in 12
cities including Albany, Newburgh (1841-43),
Carmel (1849-50), and Peekskill. [Call
Number 974.7/B]
Bowman, Fred Q. 8000 More Vital Records of
Eastern New York State
1804-1850.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1991. Covers
various newspapers for various time periods in
the following 6 towns - Ogdensburgh, Malone,
Albany, Kinderhook, Huntington, and Sag
Harbor. [Call Number 974.7/B]
Bowman, Fred Q. 10,000 Vital Records of
Eastern New York 1777-
1834.
Baltimore: GPC, 1987. From marriage &
death columns of newspapers before 1835 in
Otsego, Clinton, Essex, Saratoga, Rensselaer,
Albany, Columbia and "old" Dutchess
counties. [Call Number 974.7/B]
Clark, Robert Bruce. The First Presbyterian
Church, Goshen, New York
1720-1895.
NY: Anson D. F. Randolph and Co, 1895.
Includes lists of pastors 1721-1885, and
members in 1895; elders, trustees, societies of
the church, photos of the church and
parsonage. [Call Number 974.77/Ora]
Colonial Dames of the
State of New York.
Genealogical Records.
Manuscript Entries of Births,
Deaths and Marriages,
Taken From Family Bibles
1581-1917.
Edited by Jeannie F-J. Robison & Henrietta C.
Bartlett. New York, 1917. Transcripts of
bible records which have at least 1 entry before
1800. Includes Beekmans, Van Vranken,
Delameter, Elmendorf, Livingston, and
Verplanck among many others. [Call Number
929.3/C]
NYS outside Dutchess
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Davis, Norman. Westchester Patriarchs. A
Genealogical Dictionary of
Westchester County, New
York Families Prior to 1755.
Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, c1988.
Alphabetical arrangement of names; not an
exhaustive treatment of the subject. Includes
area now The Bronx. [Call Number
974.77/Wes]
Fernow, Berthold. Calendar of Wills on File
and Recorded in the Offices
of the Court of Appeals, of
the County Clerk at Albany,
and of the Secretary of State
1626-1836.
Clearfield, 1991. (Orig. publ. 1896). [Call
Number 974.7/F]
Foley, Janet Wethy. Early Settlers of New York
State.
2 vol. Baltimore: GPC, c1993. Originally
published serially Vol.1-9 (1934-1942).
Includes family, church, newspaper &
cemetery records, vital records, etc. Originally
covered western NY then expanded coverage.
[Call Number 974.7/F]
Gleason, Catherine. Periodical Holdings of the
Local History and
Genealogical Department.
Newburgh Free Library, 1979. Pamphlet.
[Call Number 974.77/Ora]
Gleason, Catherine. The Ruttenber Collection. Newburgh Free Library, 1979. Pamphlet.
Description of Civil War manuscript materials
and other family papers of E.M. Ruttenber,
author of an Orange County history. [Call
Number 974.77/Ora]
Hinshaw, William Wade. Encyclopedia of American
Quaker Genealogy. Vol.III.
New York.
Baltimore: GPC, 1991. (Original publ 1940.)
Extracts information of genealogical
importance from Hicksite and Orthodox
meetings of Long Island and New York City
from 1657-1940. [Call Number 974.7/H]
Hoes, Roswell Randall. Baptismal and Marriage
Registers of the Old Dutch
Church of Kingston, Ulster
County, New York 1660-
1809.
Baltimore: GPC, 1980 (orig. published 1891).
[Call Number 974.77/Uls]
NYS outside Dutchess
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Athens and West Camp, New
York Early Records.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 2001. Zion’s
Lutheran Church, Athens, Greene County, NY
Records, 1703-1869. St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church, West Camp, Ulster County, NY
Records, 1709-1899. Chiefly of lists of names
covering varying time periods - elders and
deacons, confirmands and communicants,
membership lists, dismissals and some deaths
for St. Paul’s (1880-1899). [Call Number
974.77/Uls]
Kelly, Arthur C.M. Baptism Record St. Paul's
Lutheran Church, West
Camp, NY 1708-1899.
Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1975. Includes
Luther's Chapel in Saugerties 1844-1851 &
Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Messiah,
Troy, NY 1869. [Call Number 974.77/Uls]
Kelly, Arthur C.M. Baptism Record Zion
Evangelical Lutheran
Church, Athens, NY 1704-
1899.
Rhinebeck, NY: by author, 1974. [Call
Number 974.77/Gre]
Kelly, Arthur C.M. Index - Names of Principals -
Abstracts of Wills 1665-1776
on File in the Surrogate's
Office, City of New York.
Rhinebeck, NY: Palatine Transcripts, 1981.
Index is keyed to abstracts of wills and letters
of administration, plus unrecorded wills as
published in New York Historical Society's
Collections 1892-1899, Vols. I - VIII. [Call
Number 974.7/K]
Kelly, Arthur C.M. Index - Names of Principals -
Abstracts of Wills 1777-1800
on File in the Surrogate's
Office, City of New York.
Rhinebeck, NY: Palatine Transcripts, 1981.
Abstracts to wills and letters of administration,
plus unrecorded wills 1683-1798 were
published in New York Historical Society's
Collections 1900-1906, Vols. IX - XV. [Call
Number 974.7/K]
Kelly, Arthur C.M. Marriage Record of the
Lutheran Churches of Athens
and West Camp, NY 1705-
1899.
Rhinebeck, NY: 1976. Abstracts of Zion
Lutheran Church, Athens, Greene County, NY
1705-1899 (once known as the Loonenburg
Church); and St. Paul's Lutheran Church, West
Camp (Ulster County), NY 1709-1899. Both
served early Dutchess County. [Call Number
974.77/Gre]
LeFevre, Ralph. History of New Paltz, New
York and Its Old Families
(from 1678 to 1820).
Second ed. Baltimore: Clearfield Co, 1996.
(orig. published Albany, 1909). Includes many
biographies and genealogies of patentees and
early residents. Includes appendix originally
published separately. [Call Number
974.77/Uls]
NYS outside Dutchess
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
LeFevre, Ralph. Appendix to History of New
Paltz.
"Giving additional information concerning the
Revolutionary Period. Likewise Wills of a
number of the Patentees and thier sons in
whole or in part also more extended notice of
those who moved from New Paltz in the early
days and a variety of other matter". [Call
Number 974.77/Uls]
Martin, Tom, transcriber. Three Cemeteries, Orange
County, NY.
Highland Falls/ Cornwall/ Fort Montgomery
area - includes Edward’s or “Old Wood’s”
Cemetery, cemetery at Queensboro Circle,
Round Pond Cemetery. Mr. Martin compared
his transcriptions against earlier published
lists; done in the course of researching his
Mandigo family history. Filed in Subject
Vertical File under “Orange County, NY”.
O'Callaghan, Edmund
Bailey.
Lists of Inhabitants of
Colonial New York
Excerpted from the Documentary History of
the State of New-York (Orig. edition in 4
volumes, 1849-1851). Baltimore: GPC, 1979,
1989. Various 17 th and 18 th century lists of
early settlers, militia rolls, rate lists, etc.
extracted & reprinted in their original order
with an added name index. [Call Number
974.7/O]
Purple, Samuel S. Records of the Reformed
Dutch Church in New
Amsterdam and New York.
Marriages from 11
December 1639 to 26 August
1801.
Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1997.
(Originally published in 1890 for the New
York Gen. & Biog. Society) [Call Number
974.7/P]
Quinlan, James Eldridge. History of Sullivan County “embracing an account of its Geology,
Climate, Aborigines, Early Settlement,
Organization; the Formation of Its Towns, with
Biographical Sketches of Prominent Residents,
etc., etc.” South Fallsburg, NY: Fallsburg
Printing Co, Nov. 1965. Reprint; original
publ. by G.M. Beebe & W.T.Morgans, 1873.
Typical county history of the 19 th century.
[Call Number 974.77/Sul]
Ruttenber, E.M and L.H.
Clark.
History of Orange County,
New York
“with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men.”
Higginson Book Company Reprint (original
edition: Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1881).
[Call Number 974.77/Ora]
NYS outside Dutchess
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Scott, Kenneth. Early New York
Naturalizations.
Abstracts of Naturalization Records from
Federal, State and Local Courts, 1792-1840.
Baltimore: GPC, 1981. [Call Number 974.7/S]
Scott, Kenneth. Genealogical Data from
Colonial New York
Newspapers.
A Consolidation of Articles from the New
York Genealogical & Biographical Record.
Baltimore: GPC, 1982. Covers newspapers
1726-1744, 1733-1751, 1752-1768, 1768-
1783. [Call Number 974.7/S]
Scott, Kenneth. Genealogical Data from New
York Administration Bonds
1753-1799.
Collections of the New York Genealogical &
biographical Society, Vol X. New York: 1969.
These were bonds required when Letters of
Administration were issued in probate. [Call
Number 974.7/S]
Scott, Kenneth. Genealogical Data from the
New York Post-Boy 1743-
1773.
National Genealogical Soc. Special Publ. #35,
Washington, DC, 1980. Includes mention of
over 5000 individuals from all over the
colonies, usually the famous, merchants,
officials, criminals,victims of death by
accident, violence, Indians, etc. [Call Number
974.7/S]
Scott, Kenneth. New York Marriages
Previous to 1784.
A reprint of the original edition of 1860 with
additions and corrections, including
Supplementary List of Marriage Licenses -
New York Marriage Licenses by Robert H.
Kelby; New York Marriage Licenses 1639-
1706 with Index by Kenneth Scott. Baltimore:
GPC, 1984. There are 4 separate lists of
names - the first 3 are arranged alphabetically;
last is arranged by date with an index. [Call
Number 974.7/S]
Scott, Kenneth. Petitions for Name Changes
in New York City 1848-1899.
Washington, DC: National Genealogical
Society, 1984. NGS Special Publication #53.
Abstracts of about 890 petitions; generally
includes date of petition, name, age, city
address and status of petitioner, often exact
date of birth, place of birth, names of parents,
names and ages of spouse and children, date of
marriage or divorce, and reason for the
requested change. [Call Number 974.7/S]
Scott, Kenneth. Records of the Chancery
Court, Province & State of
New York. Guardianships
1691-1815.
New York: Holland Society of New York,
1971. The Chancery Court appointed
guardians for various reasons, when one was
not appointed by will or Surrogates Court.
[Call Number 974.7/S]
NYS outside Dutchess
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Scott, Sylvia. Local Places and People -
Prints and Photographs in
the Local History and
Genealogy Collection.
Newburgh Free Library, 1979. Pamphlet.
[Call Number 974.77/Ora]
Shipp, Margery. Local History Sheet Map
Collection.
Newburgh Free Library, 1979. Pamphlet.
[Call Number 974.77/Ora]
Shipp, Margery. Orange County Settlements. Newburgh Free Library, 1979. Pamphlet.
Alphabetical listing of present and defunct
communities in Orange County - settlement
(by various names), town, and source of
information. [Call Number 974.77/Ora]
Sylvester, Nathaniel
Bartlett.
History of Ulster County, NY “with illustrations and biographical sketches of
its prominent men and pioneers.” Reprint.
(Original - Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1880.)
[Call Number 974.77/Uls]
White, Philip L. Beekmantown, NY. Forest
Frontier to Farm
Community.
Austin: University of Texas Press, c1979.
Local history of late 18 th and early 19 th
century community near Plattsburgh in Clinton
County. Some original settlers came from
Dutchess County. [Call Number 974.7/W]
Wilson, Thomas B. Inhabitants of New York
1774-1776.
Baltimore: GPC, 1993. New York City shortly
before the Revolution; compilation of various
name lists of value to genealogists found in
sources published over 100 years ago and not
generally known. [Call Number 974.7/W]
Worden, Jean D. Dutch Reformed Church,
New Hurley, Ulster County,
New York.
Copied, typed and indexed by Jean D. Worden.
Iowa: Anundsen Publ, c1980. Records include
baptisms 1770-1850, marriages 1771-1774,
1816-1850, members (only a few listed).
[Call Number 974.77/Uls]
OUTSIDE NEW YORK STATE
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
U.S. -
NEW ENGLAND
List of Church Records in the
Connecticut State Library.
Pamphlet. List of all manuscript records held
in the State Library as of 1976. Arranged
alphabetically by name of town and thereunder
by church; includes library call #. [Call
Number 974.6/L]
Barlow, Claude W. Sources for Genealogical
Searching in Connecticut
and Massachusetts.
Central NY Genealogical Society, 1973.
Pamphlet. [Call Number 974/B]
Ferry, Robert A.,
compiler.
A Short Directory of the
Names, Past and Current, of
Connecticut Boroughs,
Cities, Towns &
Unincorporated Sections.
Published by Connecticut Ancestry Society as
issue of August, 1996 (Vol.39, #1, Whole
number 146). Pamphlet. Includes short
bibliography, outline map of towns, and
alphabetical listing of places with notes on
name changes, when created, and location of
probate records. [Call Number 974.6/F]
Guzzi, Paul. Historical Data Relating to
Counties, Cities and Towns
in Massachusetts.
1975. Summary of official acts creating civil
divisions and setting boundaries in the state.
[Call Number 974.4/G]
Karlstrand, Lillian
Bentley, comp.
The Barbour Collection of
Connecticut Town Vital
Records - Rocky Hill
(1765-1854), Roxbury
(1796-1835), Salem
(1836-1852), and Salisbury
(1741-1846).
Vol. 37 Lorraine Cook White, general ed.
Baltimore: GPC, 2000. Transcription of the
celebrated “Barbour Collection” of
Connecticut vital records. Rocky Hill,
Roxbury, Salem, and Salisbury include vital
records of some 28,500 inhabitants. Entries are
listed in alphabetical order by town and
typically give name, date of event, names of
parents, names of children, names of both
spouses, and sometimes such items as age,
occupation, and place of residence. Salisbury
borders Dutchess County. [Call Number
974.6/K]
Outside NYS
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Lindberg, Marcia Wiswall
(ed.)
Genealogist's Handbook for
New England Research
Second ed. Boston: New England Hist. Gen.
Society, 1985. A location guide to public
records, depositories, libraries & genealogical
societies in New England. [Call Number
974/L]
Resch, Tyler. The Shires of Bennington. A
Sampler of Green Mountain
Heritage.
Bennington, VT: Bennington Museum, c1975.
Illustrated history of Bennington County, VT.
[Call Number 974.3/R]
CD-ROM
Ricker, Jacquelyn Ladd
(comp & ed).
The Ricker Compilation of
Vital Records of Early
Connecticut.
“Based on the Barbour Collection of
Connecticut Town Vital Records and Other
Statistical Sources.” Baltimore: Genealogical
Publishing Co, c2006. This alphabetized,
edited, indexed list of vital statistics is based
extensively on the Barbour Collection as well
as many articles published in the Connecticut
Nutmegger. It contains about 1.5 million
records from over 135 towns, covering about
the period 1633 to 1850.
Russell, Donna Valley. Salisbury, Connecticut
Records, Vol.1, Vital
Records 1730-1800,
Gravestone Inscriptions.
Middletown, MD: Catoctin Press, c1983.
Reprints various sources of town birth,
marriage and death records, and gravestone
inscriptions. Mentions Dutchess Co, NY
residents. [Call Number 974.6/R]
Russell, Donna Valley. Salisbury, Connecticut
Records, Vol.2, Deeds 1739-
1763; Taxpayers.
Middletown, MD: Catoctin Press, c1983.
Brief abstracts from first 3 deed books and 4
taxt lists - 1742, 1746, 1756, and 1760.
Includes topographic and 1859 landowner
maps. [Call Number 974.6/R]
Russell, Donna Valley. Sharon, Conn., Probate
Records 1757-1783. Towns
of Sharon, Kent, Canaan and
Salisbury.
Middletown, MD: Catoctin Press, c1984.
Sharon probate district covered 4 towns at that
time period (first book 1756-1757 is lost).
Dutchess county residents are mentioned.
[Call Number 974.6/R]
Outside NYS
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Schott, Nancy E., comp. The Barbour Collection of
Connecticut Town Vital
Records - Saybrook
(1635-1850) and Sharon
(1739-1865).
Vol. 38 Lorraine Cook White, general ed.
Baltimore: GPC, 2000. Transcription of the
celebrated “Barbour Collection” of
Connecticut vital records. Saybrook and
Sharon include vital records of some 34,000
inhabitants. Entries are listed in alphabetical
order by town and give, typically, name, date
of event, names of parents, names of children,
names of both spouses, and sometimes such
items as age, occupation, and place of
residence. Sharon, CT borders Dutchess
County. [Call Number 974.6/S]
Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages
Prior to 1700.
Baltimore: GPC, 1985. A nearly
comprehensive listing of the married
population of New England. [Call Number
974/T]
Woodruff, George C. A Genealogical Register of
the Inhabitants of the Town
of Litchfield, Conn. from the
settlement of the town A.D.
1720 to the year 1800....
Baltimore: Clearfield, 2002. (Reprint; orig.
1849). Inhabitants of Litchfield compiled from
town records of birth, marriage, death, probate,
etc. While information on families varies, for
most of the roughly 1,500 residents listed we
are given the father’s place of birth or origin,
date of death, name of spouse(s), date of
marriage, and names with dates of birth, of all
children. Appended is a table of all buildings
standing in Litchfield in 1849 with the names
of their builders and occupants. Litchfield,
Connecticut borders Dutchess County. [Call
Number 974.6/W]
U.S. -
MISCELLANEOUS
Arkansas Genealogical
Society Surname Directory
1990.
Listing of surnames that society members are
interested in. [FHC collection] [Call Number
976.7/A]
Be It Known and
Remembered. Bible Records
Vol. 5.
Louisiana Genealogical & Historical Society,
1992. Compilation of records published in
"The Louisiana Genealogical Register"
Vol.XV (1968) through Vol.XIX (1972). [Call
Number 976.3/B]
Outside NYS
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
A Bibliography of Sources
for Civil War, Mexican War
and Spanish-American War
Research in Western
Pennsylvania.
Compiled by Helen Wilson & Jean S. Morris.
1978. Pamphlet. [Call Number 016/B]
Catholic Church Records of
the Pacific Northwest.
Vancouver Vol.I & II and
Stellemarie Mission.
Translated by Mikell Warner, annotated by
Harriet Munnick. St. Paul, OR: French Prairie
Press, c1972. Missions run by French priests
c1838-1856 in the Oregon territory when the
Hudson Bay Company ruled the area. [FHC
collection] [Call Number 979/W]
Cross Index of Tucson
Public Library Genealogy
Room as of January 1985.
Computer listing of library holdings by subject.
[Call Number 979.1/C]
Pennsylvania at Antietam.
Ceremonies at the
Dedication of the
Monuments.
1906. Antietam Battlefield Memorial
Commission. Dedication of monuments
marking positions of the commands include
listing of action seen by the commands. [FHC
collection] [Call Number 974.8/P]
Pennsylvania at Gettysburg:
Ceremonies at the
Dedication of the
Monuments.
1893. 2 vol. Most of the dedications included
a description of the action various commands
were involved in during the Battle of
Gettysburg. [FHC collection] [Call Number
974.8/P]
Records of the Reformed
Dutch Church of Bergen,
N.J. now Jersey City
“containing an account of the founding of the
town, the early families and the registers of
consistories, members, marriages, baptisms
and burials”. Collections of the Holland
Society of New York Vol.IV. Reprinted from
the Holland Society Year Books of 1913,
1914, 1915. Baptisms 1666-1788; marriages
1665-1788, burials 1666-1788, members 1664-
1788 (each section indexed). Includes
historical sketches of the church, the founding
of Bergen and its first settlers. [Call number
974.9/R]
Bryan, Mary G. Passports Issued by
Governors of Georgia, 1785-
1809.
Wash., D.C., 1964. (Special Publication of
National Genealogical Society #21). Passports
were issued for permission to go through
Indian territory. [Call Number 975.5/D]
Outside NYS
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Bryan, Mary G. Passports Issued by
Governors of Georgia, 1810-
1820.
Wash., D.C., 1964. (Special Publication of
National Genealogical Society #28). Passports
were issued for permission to go through
Indian territory. [Call Number 975.5/D]
Burgess, Roy. Early Missourians and Kin. 2 vol. By the author, 1984, 1987. Listings by
surname with basic information, also listings
by "sibling group". [Call Number 977.8/B]
Chism, Stephen J. The Arkansas Gazette
Obituaries Index 1819-1879.
Greenville, SC: Southern Historical Press,
1990. [FHC collection] [Call Number
976.7/C]
Clay, Robert Young. Virginia Genealogical
Resources.
Detroit: Detroit Society for Genealogical
Research, 1980. Pamphlet. [Call Number
975.5/C]
Eddy, Henry Howard. Guide to the Published
Archives of Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg, PA: Division of Public Records,
PA Historical & Museum Commission, 1949.
Covering the 138 volumes of "Colonial
Records and Pennsylvania Archives Series" I-
IX. With an alphabetical finding list and 2
special indexes. [FHC collection] [Call
Number 974.8/Edd]
Gould, Joseph. The Story of the Forty-
Eighth Regiment
Pennsylvania Veteran
Volunteer Infantry 1861-
1865.
Published by authority of the Regimental
Association, 1908. [FHC collection] [Call
Number 974.8/G]
Hamlin, Charles Hughes,
comp.
They Went Thataway. 3 volumes in 1. Baltimore: GPC, 1974 (orig.
published 1964-1966). Abstracts from
Virginia public records that make reference to
individuals' place of origin or place emigrated
to. [FHC collection] [Call Number 975.5/H]
Hatch, Charles E. Jr. Jamestown, Virginia. The
Townsite and Its Story.
National Park Service Historical Handbook
Series #2. Washington, DC, Revised 1957.
Pamphlet. [Call Number 975.5/H]
Jordan, John W., LL.D. Encyclopedia of
Pennsylvania Biography.
New York: Lewis Historical Publ. Co, 1914. 2
vol. [Call Number 974.8/J]
Hinz, Nelda M. (comp.) Genealogy materials in the
Eddy Historical Collection of
the Saginaw Public Library.
Supplement to the Revised
edition of 1975.
Compiled by Helda M. Hinz and Anna Mae
Thompson. Public Libraries of Saginaw, MI,
1979. Materials added to the library collection
1975-1979. [Call Number 977.4/H]
Outside NYS
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Kabitzke, Donald J. North Prairie. An Historic
Wisconsin Village 1834-
1950.
1983. Includes abstracts of some church and
public records. [FHC collection] [Call
Number 977.5/K]
Leach, J. Granville, Esq. The Record of Some
Residents in the Vicinity of
the Middle Ferry,
Philadelphia during the
Latter Half of the Eighteenth
Century.
Lancaster: Wickersham Press, 1924.
Pamphlet. Covers 1765-1801. [FHC
collection] [Call Number 974.8/L]
Los Angeles Westside
Genealogical Society.
Members' Computerized
Data Exchange Arranged by
Surname and Locality.
Third Edition, March 1985. Compiled by Bill
and Merrill Prachar. Society members
submitted surnames of interest to them, with
localities and dates. [Call Number 929.3/L]
Marshall, Florence
Houghton.
Index to the Combination
Atlas Map of DeKalb
County, IL 1871.
1976. [Call Number 977.3/M]
Morris, Jean
Sensenbaugher.
Use of the Published
Pennsylvania Archives.
Pamphlet. [Call Number 974.8/M]
Piatt, Michael H. Bodie: “The Mines are
looking well...”.
The History of the Bodie Mining District,
Mono County, California. E. Sobrante, CA:
North Bay Books, c2003. Illustrated book
about a gold mining boom town, now
abandoned and turned into state park.
According to the author, there is a long-
standing tradition that the town is named for a
former Poughkeepsie tinsmith who died at the
site of the mining town in the winter of 1859.
[Call Number 979.4/P]
Rupp, I. Daniel. A Collection of Upwards of
Thirty Thousand Names of
German, Swiss, Dutch,
French and other
Immigrants in Pennsylvania
from 1727 to 1776.
Reprint of second edition with added index.
Baltimore: GPC, 1985. [Call Number
974.8/R]
Thornbrough, Gayle. Readings in Indiana History. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1967.
Reprint of Indiana Historical Collections
Vol.36. 625 pp, paper, index. [FHC
collection] [Call Number 977.2/T]
INTERNATIONAL
Outside NYS
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
“Cois Leamhana.
Monuments, Milestones and
Memories.”
Journal of Kiltorglin History and Folklore
Society. Journal #1 (Summer, 1984). [Call
Number 941/C]
[Map] Historical Map of Ireland. By L. B. Bullock. Printed by John
Bartholomew & Sons, Edinburgh. 39 x 26
inches, folded. Full color, places & characters
in history with areas and names of clans.
[Map] Maps of the German Empire
of 1871.
Rev. ed. 1987. Pleasant Grove, Utah: Jensen
Publications, c1975. Maps with brief history
& other information about the provinces, etc.
[Call Number 943/M]
The Reception of "The Lisle
Letters" 1981-1982. A
Selection of the Reviews
from England and the United States....
Chicago: University of Chicago Press. The
annotated letters written 1533-1540 illuminate
Tudor politics and social life. Lord Lisle was
Arthur Plantagenet, last of that name to survive
the War of Roses. The lengthy publishing
reviews include much history themselves.
[Call Number 942/R]
These Names Accuse.
Nominal list of Latvians
deported to Soviet Russia in
1940-1941.
Published by Latvian National Fund in the
Scandinavian Countries, Stockholm, 1951.
[FHC collection; very poor condition] [Call
Number 947/T]
Begley, Donald F., ed. Irish Genealogy. A Record
Finder.
Dublin, Ireland: Heraldic Artists Ltd, 1981.
Guide to record sources in Ireland with maps.
[FHC collection] [Call Number 929.1/B]
Bloxham, V. Ben,
compiler.
Key to the Parochial
Registers of Scotland from
earliest times through 1854.
Provo, UT: Brigham Young Univ. Press,
c1970. Shows original register coverage for
births, marriages and deaths, holdings of the
LDS Family History Library, and the condition
of the original registers. [Call Number 941/B]
Bragg, Melvyn. Speak for England. An Oral
History of England: 1900-
1975
Based on Interviews with Inhabitants of
Wigton, Cumberland. NY: Knopf, 1977.
[Call Number 942/B]
Franklin, Charles M. Dutch genealogical
research.
Indianapolis: Ye Olde Genelaogie Shoppe,
c1982. Covers history, migration, research in
the Netherlands, heraldry, societies &
periodicals, names. [FHC collection][Call
Number 949/F]
Outside NYS
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Graham, Ida. Irish Family Names.
Highlights of 50 Family
Histories.
Great Britain: Johnston & Bacon, 1973. [Call
Number 941/G]
Humphery-Smith, Cecil,
ed.
The Phillimore Atlas and
Index of Parish Registers.
Chichester, England: Phillimore & Co, 1984.
2 maps of each English county - 1834 county
road maps; outline maps show pre-1832 parish
boundaries within the county. Every parish is
listed in column format with information on
when records start, which ones are available,
where they can be found, etc. [Call Number
942/H]
Jensen, Larry O. A genealogical handbook of
German research.
Rev. Ed. 1980. Vol.1. Pleasant Grove, UT: by
author, c1980. Alphabets, history, analyzing
surnames and place names, handwriting, vital
records, emigration. [Call Number 943/J]
Maginnes, Thomas Hobbs
Jr.
The Irish Contribution to
America’s Independence.
Philadelphia: Doire Publ. Co, 1913. Irish
colonial immigration and participation in the
American Revolution, including lists of names
of Irish in the US at the time. [Call Number
973/M]
Mitchell, Brian. A new genealogical atlas of
Ireland.
Baltimore: GPC, 1986. Outline maps of
counties, dioceses and probate districts; Within
each county, outline maps of parishes, baronies
and poor law unions. [Call Number 941/M]
Murphy, J. M. The Londonderry heirs. Canada: Black Printing Co, c1976. Story of
settlement of Cobequid townships of Truro,
Onslow & Londonderry in Nova Scotia,
Canada by English speaking people in the
period 1760-1775. [Call Number 971/M]
Palmer, Spencer J. Studies in Asian Genealogy. Provo, UT: Brigham Young Univ. Press,
c1972. Scholarly collection of essays on
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, tribal
genealogy, collections and immigration. [Call
Number 950/P]
Smith, Frank. A genealogical gazetteer of
England.
Baltimore, GPC, 1968. “An alphabetical
dictionary of places with their location,
ecclesiastical jurisdiction, population and dates
of earliest entry in registers of every ancient
parish.” [Call Number 942/S]
Smith, Frank and David
E. Gardener.
Genealogical research in
England and Wales.
2 vol. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft Publ, 1956.
[FHC collection] [Call Number 929.1/S]
Outside NYS
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Thode, Ernest. Address Book for Germanic
Genealogy.
Fifth ed. Baltimore: GPC, c1994. Includes
addresses for researching Germanic roots in
U.S., German and other European sources,
including archives, churches, newspapers,
family groups, publishers, etc. [Call Number
943/T]
PALATINES & IMMIGRATION
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Hume, Robert. Early Child Immigrants to
Virginia 1619-1642.
Baltimore: Magna Carta Book Co, 1986.
[Call Number 975.5/H]
Jones, Henry Z, Jr. More Palatine Families.
Some Immigrants to the
Middle Colonies 1717-1776
“and Their European Origins Plus New
Discoveries on German Families Who Arrived
in Colonial New York in 1710.” Universal
City, CA: by author, 1991. [Call Number
974.7/J]
Jones, Hank Z, Jr. The Palatine Families of
New York 1710.
Publ. by author, Universal City, CA, c1985.
"A study of the German immigrants who
arrived in colonial New York in 1710" [Call
Number 974.7/J]
Jones, Henry Z. and
Lewis B. Rohrbach.
Even More Palatine
Families. 18th Century
Immigrants to the American
Colonies and their German,
Swiss and Austrian Origins.
3 volumes. Picton Press, 2002. Vol. 1 is
German immigrants to colonial New York in
the 1717-1776 time frame. Volume 2 consists
of a study of the 1710 Swiss and German
Settlers of New Bern, North Carolina, as well
as chapters on Swiss migration from Zurich to
America in the 1730's. Volume 3 has more
miscellaneous lists some with new
transcriptions, and some corrections and
additions to Jones’ More Palatine Families.
[Call Number 973/J]
Lawton, Mrs. James M. Family Names of Huguenot
Refugees to America.
Reprinted from "Constitution of the Huguenot
Society of America 1901". Baltimore: GPC,
1992. Pamphlet [Call Number 929.3/L]
MacWethy, Lou D.,
compiler.
The Book of Names
especially relating to the
early Palatines and the first
settlers in the Mohawk
Valley.
Baltimore: Gen. Publ., Co, 1985. (Originally
publ. St. Johnsville, NY, 1933). Includes
Palatine lists and naturalizations, church
records - especially those of Joshua Kocherthal
in his traveling ministry for West Camp
Lutheran Church. Also militia lists for Tryon
County and other military records relating to
the Mohawk Valley. [Call Number 974.7/M]
Palatines
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Nicholson, Cregoe D.C. Some Early Emigrants to
America.
Abstracted by Cregoe Nicholson. Baltimore:
GPC/Clearfield Co, 1989. Reprinted from the
"Genealogist's Magazine". Published with
"Early Emigrants to America from Liverpool".
Indentures from Middlesex County, 1683 &
1684, and from Lancashire Co, 1686. [Call
Number 929.3/N]
Tribbeko, John & George
Ruperti.
Lists of Germans from the
Palatinate Who Came to
England in 1709.
Baltimore: Clearfield Co, 1990. Pamphlet
reprint of article published in The New York
Genealogical and Biographical Record
(Volumes 41 & 41, 1909-1910). [Call
Number 942/T]
BIBLIOGRAPHIES, GUIDES, REFERENCE BOOKS, LINEAGE SOCIETIES, ETC
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
NEW YORK
1991 Directory of New York
State County and Municipal
Historians.
County Historians Assoc. of New York State,
NY State Education Dept., Division of
Research & Collections. Also includes
historical products, genealogical services,
regional historical associations, county seats,
museum staff, and Index of municipalities
[Call Number 974.7/D]
Family History Resources. Published in "The Bookmark", quarterly of the
New York State Library, Spring 1991 issue.
Articles about genealogy services in libraries
and specifically, research techniques and use
of the NY State Library in Albany. [Call
Number 929.1/F]
Gateway to America.
Genealogical Research in the
New York State Library.
Albany: 1980. General guide to the types of
materials in the library, where they are kept,
and how to access them. [Call Number
974.7/G]
Guide to Historical
Resources in Columbia
County, NY Repositories.
New York Historical Resources Center, Olin
Library, Cornell University, c1987. Inventory
of manuscript & archival collections open to
the public in 13 libraries, museums, historic
sites & historical societies in the county.
[Call Number 016/G]
Guide to Historical
Resources in Dutchess
County, NY Repositories.
Vol.1. New York Historical Resources
Center, Olin Library, Cornell University,
c1990. Inventory of manuscript & archival
collections open to the public in 32 libraries,
museums, historic sites & historical societies
in the county. [Call Number 016/G]
Guide to Historical
Resources in Putnam County,
NY Repositories.
New York Historical Resources Center, Olin
Library, Cornell University, c1989. Inventory
of manuscript & archival collections open to
the public in 11 libraries, museums, historic
sites & historical societies in the county. [Call
Number 016/G]
Reference
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Guide to Records in the New
York State Archives.
Albany, NY: State Archives & Record
Administration, 1993. Administrative
summaries of function and history of more
than 75 current agencies of state government;
identifies records preserved in the state
archives as of December, 1991. [Call Number
016/G]
History Keepers’
Companion.
“Guide to Sites and Sources of the Lower
Hudson Valley and Western Connecticut.”
Compiled by Lower Hudson Conference.
Fleischmanns, NY: Purple Mountain Press,
Ltd., 1998. [Call Number 917/His]
Naturalization Records of
New York State.
NY State Council of Genealogical
Organizations Publication #1, 1996. Pamphlet.
Where to find naturalization records in NY
counties; includes county outline maps. [Call
Number 974.7/N]
Quaker Records [formerly]
at Haviland Records Room,
New York City.
Summary listing derived from computerized
card catalog of original records of the Yearly
Meeting of the Society of Friends collected at
their archives, Haviland Record Room in
NYC, and later transferred to Swarthmore
Friends Library. [Call Number 974.7/Q]
Association of Municipal
Historians of New York
State.
New York State Cemeteries
Name/Location Inventory
1995-1997.
3 volumes. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books,
c1999. Arranged alphabetically by county,
then by town, includes abbreviated
information on name of cemetery, location,
date of first & last burial, type of cemetery, if
it is active, and name of a contact person or
organization. [Call Number 929.5/A]
Bailey, Rosalie Fellows. Guide to Genealogical and
Biographical Sources for
New York City (Manhattan)
1783-1898.
Clearfield, 1998 (original publ. 1954).
Reprinted with new introduction updating
availability of sources. Comprehensive guide
to research in types of sources that can aid
19th century NYC research. [Call Number
929.1/B]
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AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Bowman, Fred Q. Directory to Collections of
New York Vital Records
1726-1989, with Rare
Gazetteer.
By Fred Q. Bowman and Thomas J. Lynch.
Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1995. Focuses
on bibliographic references topublished
newspaper abstracts available at 5 repositories,
incl. LDS Family History Library, arranged by
county & town. Also a county outline map,
county origin dates, alphabetical list of
villages, etc showing location in county &
town from a 1980 gazetteer. [Call Number
974.7/B]
Guzik, Estelle M. (ed.) Genealogical Resources in
the New York Metropolitan
Area.
NY: Jewish Genealogical Soc., 1989. Guide
to over 100 offices & institutions with
specifics on their holdings & how to use them.
Covers the city, Long Island, Westchester,
Albany & Trenton, some northern NJ. [Call
Number 929.1/G]
Remington, Gordon L. New York State Probate
Records. A Genealogist’s
Guide to Testate and
Intestate Records.
NEHGS, 2002. Extensive introductory section
discusses the New York court system for
handling estates, types of records and
repositories, special emphasis on the resources
of the Family History Library (FHL) in Salt
Lake City. Listing for each county includes
the date formed and parent county, county
seat, Surrogate’s Court address, phone and
hours, checklist of records on microfilm at the
FHL, published records and indexes including
periodicals. [Call Number 974.7/R]
Thompson, Isaac Grant. The Assessors, Collectors
and Town Clerk's Manual.
Fifth ed. Albany: John D. Parsons, Jr, Law
Publishers, 1876. "Containing a full and
accurate exposition of the law relating to the
powers and duties of these offices with an
Appendix of Forms. Includes statutes to
1876." [Call Number 352/T]
Worden, Jean D. The New York Genealogical
and Biographical Record 113
Years Master Index. 1870-
1982.
Subject index, not an every-name index.
[Call Number 929.1/N]
GENERAL REFERENCE
The 1910 Federal Population
Census.
National Archives Trust Fund Board,
Washington, DC: 1982. Includes census
schedules and Soundex/Miracode film
numbers. [Call Number 016/N]
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AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
The 1920 Federal Population
Census Catalog of National
Archives Microfilm.
1991. Lists all microfilm records of 1920
census by state, county and E.D. Includes
numbers of films with descriptions of E.D.,
1920 Soundex and available maps of E.D.'s.
[Call Number 016/N]
Black Studies. A Select Catalog of National Archives
Microfilm Publications. National Archives
Trust Fund, 1984. [Call Number 016/N]
DAR Patriot Index
Centennial Edition.
Washington:1990. 3 vols. Published by
National Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution Centennial
Administration. Copyright 1994. 3336pp. Part
I A-F; Part II G-O, Part III P-Z; map and list
of abbreviations. Indexes men & women
whose service in the Revolution has been
established by the DAR. Data extracted from
original applications for membership in DAR
in addition to name may include date and
place of birth & death, name of spouse, rank
& type of service, if pension papers are known
to exist. [Call # 929/D] Donated by Robert
Jackson.
DAR Patriot Index. Vol.III
An Index to the Spouses of
the DAR Patriots.
National Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution. Washington:1986.
830pp. For male patriots, includes only wives
whose surnames are proven beyond reasonable
doubt and were documented as of December
1984. Does not include spouses named in
1982 Supplement to the Patriot Index. Use this
index to refer to the entry under the patriot’s
name. [Call # 929/D] Donated by Robert
Jackson.
Directory of Professional
Genealogists 2004-2005.
Westminster, CO: Association of Professional
Genealogists, c2003. Member information is
updated regularly on the APG website at
<www.apgen.org>. [Call Number 929.1/D]
Federal Court Records. A Select Catalog of National Archives
Microfilm Publications. National Archives
Trust Fund Board, 1987, 1991. [Call Number
016/N]
Genealogical and
Biographical Research.
A Select Catalog of National Archives
Microfilm Publications. National Archives
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AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Genealogies cataloged by the
Library of Congress since
1986
“with a list of established forms of family
names and a list of genealogies converted to
microform since 1983.” [Call Number 016/G]
Handy Book for
Genealogists.
Sixth ed. Revised & Enl. Vital Record
Sources. Edited by George B. Everton, Sr.
Logan, UT: Everton Publishers, c1971.
Tabular data on counties - date created, parent
county, address of county seat, available
records. Maps [Call Number 929.1/Han]
The Handy Book for
Genealogists.
Seventh ed. Rev. & Enl. Logan, UT: Everton
Publishers, c1981, 1982. Includes foreign
countries and U.S. states. Tabular county data
- date created & parent county, county seat
address, available records. County outline
maps, fold-out US maps. [Call Number
929.1/Han]
The Handy Book for
Genealogists.
Eighth ed. Logan, UT: Everton Publishers,
c1991. Tabular county data - date created &
parent county, county seat address, available
records. Color county outline maps. Special
section on migration routes with maps.
[Call Number 929.1/Han]
Historical Materials in the
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Library.
National Archives and Records Service,
General Services Administration, July, 1979.
Pamphlet [Call Number 016/H]
How to Write and Publish
Your Own Family Book.
Genealogy Publishing Service, Franklin, NC.
Specific instructions on how to prepare a
camera-ready manuscript. [Call Number
929.1/How]
Immigrant and Passenger
Arrivals.
A Select Catalog of National Archives
Microfilm Publications. Second ed.
Washington, D.C.: Nat. Arch., 1983. [Call
Number 016/N]
Lineage Book. National Society of the Daughters of
American Colonists. Vol.11. Compiled by
Josephine W. Vincent. Annandale, VA, 1957.
Members, arranged by number, list brief
lineage back to a colonial ancestor. Member
index & ancestor index (intervening
generations not indexed). [Call Number
929/N/v.11]
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AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Lineage Book. National Society of the Daughters of
American Colonists. Vol.15. Compiled by
Josephine W. Vincent. Annandale, VA, 1971.
Members, arranged by number, list brief
lineage back to a colonial ancestor. Member
index & ancestor index (intervening
generations not indexed). [Call Number
929/N/v.15]
List of Black Servicemen
Compiled From the War
Department Collection of
Revolutionary War Records.
Special List #36, compiled by Debra L.
Newman. Washington: National Archives and
Records Service, General Services
Administration, 1974. Pamphlet. A list of
servicemen known or presumed to have been
black, compile from three sources in the War
Department Collection of Revolutionary War
Records, Record Group 93. [Call Number
973/L]
Military Service Records. A Select Catalog of National Archives
Microfilm Publications. National Archives
Trust Fund board, 1985. [Call Number
016/N]
National Archives and
Records Administration
Microfilm Resources for
Research.
A Comprehensive Catalog. Washington, DC:
n.d. [1990]. Explanation of the National
Archives Microfilm Publications Program and
a listing of filmed record groups including
general records and those of the legislative,
judicial and executive branches of government
in a wide variety of fields. [Call Number
016/N]
Newspapers along America's
Great Trails.
Bell & Howell. Pamphlet. A catalog of
newspapers in the archives of Bell & Howell
Micro Photo Division on microfilm. Lists
papers along 13 famous migratory trails with
brief description of the trail routes. [Call
Number 929/N]
Society of Mayflower
Descendants in the State of
New York. Fifth Record
Book, 1922.
New York, 1922. Covers period 1922-1926.
List of members with name of Mayflower
ancestor. No vital data. [Call Number
929/S/1922]
Society of Mayflower
Descendants in the State of
New York. Sixth Record
Book, September, 1926. New
York, 1926.
Covers period 1922-1926. List of members
with name of Mayflower ancestor. No vital
data. [Call Number 929/S/1926]
Reference
AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Year Book of the Society of
Sons of the Revolution in the
State of New York.
New York, 1899. Roll of members and
ancestors with record of service. Some soldier
biographies. List of battles and actions of the
Revolutionary War in chronological order.
[Call Number 929/S/1899]
Year Book of the Society of
Sons of the Revolution in the
State of New York.
New York, 1909. [Call Number 929/S/1909]
Allen, Desmond Walls. Social Security Applications:
A Genealogical Resource.
Conway, AR: Research Associates, c1989,
1991, 1995. 18 pp, Pamphlet. Located in
FHC file cabinet in “Social Security” file.
This small pamphlet gives basic information
on how to find a Social Security number, what
kinds of information would be found in SSA
records, and what forms should be ordered.
Arends, Marthe. Genealogy on CD-ROM. Baltimore: GPC, c1999. Bibliography of CDs
organized by subject. The listing includes
publisher-supplied details about publisher,
price, system requirements, and contents, with
some CDs examined and described in greater
detail by the author. [Call Number 016/A]
Beard, Timothy Field. How to find your family
roots.
By Timothy Field Beard with Denise Demong.
New York: McGraw-Hill, c1977. [Call
Number 929.1/B]
Bentley, Elizabeth Petty. Directory of Family
Associations.
1991-1992 edition. Baltimore: GPC, c1991.
[Call Number 929.1/Ben]
Bentley, Elizabeth Petty. The Genealogist's Address
Book.
1992-1993 edition. Baltimore: GPC, c1992.
[Call Number 929.1/Ben]
Bremer, Ronald A. Compendium of Historical
Sources. The How and Where
of American Genealogy.
Published by Mr. & Mrs. Carl L. Bremer,
c1983. Comprehensive guide to sources and
methods of research with many lists and
tables. In 6 sections - Research, repositories,
records, sources, maps & forms, glossary.
[Call Number 929.1/B]
Cerny, Johni, ed. The Library. A Guide to the
LDS Family History Library.
Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry, c1988. [Call
Number 929.1/C]
Colket, Meredith B., Jr. Guide to Genealogical
Records in the National
Archives.
By Meredith Colket & Frank E. Bridgers.
Washington: National Archives & Records
Service, GSA, 1964. [Call Number
929.1/C]
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AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Crawford-Oppenheimer,
Christine.
Long-Distance Genealogy. “Researching your family history from home.”
Cincinnati: Betterway Books, c2000. Covers
how & where to write letters to obtain basic
vital records as well as various other kinds of
genealogical information; also acts as
excellent beginner’s guide to genealogical
research. [Call Number 929.1/C]
Culligan, Joseph J. You, Too, Can Find Anybody. A Reference Manual. Holmark Press, c1993.
Updated 1994 edition. Methods for tracing
missing persons including many addresses of
Federal, state, county and business sources;
for present-day research. [FHC collection]
[Call Number 362/C]
DeAngelis, Priscilla
Grindle.
Italian-American Genealogy.
A Source Book.
Rockville, MD: Noteworthy Enterprises Publ,
1994. Brief overview with emphasis on
research in the U.S.; considerable
bibliography. [Call Number 945/D]
Eakle, Arlene, ed. The Source. A Guidebook of
American Genealogy.
Edited by Arlene Eakle & Johni Cerny. Salt
Lake City: Ancestry, 1984. Comprehensive
guide to all types of genealogical sources for
American research. [Call Number 929.1/E]
Eichholz, Alice, ed. Ancestry's Red Book.
American State, County &
Town Sources.
Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry.Introductory
section for each state covers many record
sources; tabular data on counties include
county seat address, date created & parent
county, records available - vital records, deed,
probate & courts. [Call Number
929.1/E/1989]
Harris, Maurine (comp.) Ancestry's Concise
Genealogical Dictionary.
By Maurine and Glen Harris. Salt Lake City:
Ancestry, 1989. [Call Number 929.1/H]
Jones, George F. German-American Names. Baltimore: GPC, c1990. Spellings, meanings
and variants of about 12,700 names. [Call
Number 929.4/J]
Kaminkow, Marion J.
(ed.)
Genealogies in the Library of
Congress. A Bibliography.
Supplement 1972-1976.
Baltimore: Magna Carta Book Co., 1977.
[Call Number 016/K]
Kaminkow, Marion J.
(ed.)
Genealogies in the Library of
Congress. A Bibliography.
Second Supplement 1976-
1986.
Baltimore: Magna Carta Book co, 1987. [Call
Number 016/K]
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AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Kelly, Arthur C. M. Names, Names and More
Names. Locating Your Dutch
Ancestors in Colonial
America.
Ancestry, 1999. Short descriptions of naming
conventions and practices for Dutch
patronymics, surnames and given names, then
lists of name combinations taken from very
early church records. Intended for general
reference and as way to locate couples in 17th
century NY and NJ. [Call Number 929.4/K]
Kirkham, E. Kay. Survey of American Church
Records.
Vol.1 (Third edition, enl.) Major
Denominations before 1880. UT: Everton,
c1971. Brief history of 9 denominations, then
listings by state of available church records.
[Call Number 929.1/Kir]
Light, Sally. House Histories. A Guide to
Tracing the Genealogy of
Your Home.
Spencertown, NY: Golden Hill Press, 1995.
Techniques for dating a house; includes how
to set up your own business. [Call Number
929.1/L]
Marlin, Robert W. My Sixteen. A Self-Help
Guide to Finding Your 16
Great Great Grandparents.
Nashville: Land Yacht Press, c1996. Easy-
reading style introduces sources and
techniques as they came up in the author’s
search. [Call Number 929.1/M]
Meyer, Mary K. Directory of Genealogical
Societies in the U.S.A. and
Canada.
1980. Third ed. [Call Number 929/M]
Meyer, Mary K. Meyer's Directory of
Genealogical Societies in the
U.S.A. and Canada.
1992. Ninth edition. [Call Number 929/M]
Payne, Elizabeth, ed. 150 Years Exploring Our
Heritage. Sesquicentennial
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The New England Historic Genealogical
Society 1845-1995. Boston: NEHGS, c1995.
[Call Number 369/Pay]
Smith, Juliana Szucs. The Ancestry Family
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Salt Lake City: Ancestry Inc, c1997. [Call
Number 929.1/Smi]
Stevenson, Noel C. Search and Research. The
Researcher's Handbook.
“A Guide to Official Records and Library
Sources for Investigators, Historians,
Genealogists, Lawyers and Librarians.” Rev.
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Szucs, Loretto Dennis. Family history made easy. Salt Lake City: Ancestry: 1998. Introduction
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[Call Number 929.1/Szu]
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AUTHOR TITLE NOTES
Thode, Ernest. German-English
Genealogical Dictionary.
Baltimore: GPC, c1992. With examples of
script - includes names, occupations, numbers,
days of week; suffixes, map, etc. [FHC
collection] [Call Number 423/Tho]
Walch, Timothy (comp.) Our Family, Our Town. National Archives & Records Administration,
1987. "Essays on family and local history
sources in the National Archives." [Call
Number 929.1/W]