The Yates County Office of Public History is proud to host the YatesCounty page of the NYGenWeb
project. Below are listed some local resources posted elsewhere on this site,
as well as pages relating to our neighboring counties, and a few other links.
Many more can be found by following these to the larger project sites.
Yates County Resources:
Email: mailto:history@yatescounty.org
· Basic
resources
· Census
resources
· Census
indexes
· Vital
records
· Cemetery
resources
· Yates
County Genealogical & Historical Society (email: ycghs@yatespast.com)
Local
Municipal Resources
Please note that copies of some original documents (marked with a * in the
list below) can be requested by researchers. Certain information must be sent
in with the request, and these requirements are set out fully, usually on the
summary page of each record series. The County Historian's office gets an
enormous number of copy requests, and they can be processed a lot more
quickly if we have the correct reference, and the name and postal address of
the person to whom they are to be sent.
· Basic
resources
· Town
records
· Service
Registers 1861-1865*
· Index to
Jerusalem Record of Roads 1798-1820*
· Index to
Jerusalem Minute Book 1: 1799-1868*
· Index to
Benton Minute Book 1: 1806-1830*
· Index to
Barrington Record of Roads 1826 - 1851*
· Index to
Starkey Record of Roads 1826 - 1874*
· Index to
Potter Record of Roads 1833 -1888*
· Index to
Milo Record of Roads 1801-1869*
· Index to
Deeds Transmitted from Ontario County 1788-1823*
· Index to
Deeds Transmitted from Steuben County 1796-1826*
· Index to
Mortgages Transmitted from Ontario County 1788-1826*
· PennYan Tax Rolls for the 1840s and 1850s
· New Index! Vital records
· Church
records: Record
Book of the Free Congregational Church in Penn Yan
· Records of the First Presbyterian Church of Penn Yan: 1823 and
1826-28
· Early tax
rolls of Ontario County towns now in Yates County
· Innkeepers'
Recognizances*
· Index
to marriage licenses held by Yates County (1908-1935)*
· Index
to certificates in County Marriage Book A (1908-1914)*
· Index
to certificates in County Marriage Book B (1914-1921)*
· Index
to certificates in County Marriage Book C (1921-1926)*
· Consolidated
index to all County Marriage Records 1908-1935*
· Town vital
records filed with the County 1847-1848*
· Yates
County estates filed in Ontario County 1789-1824 *
· Every-name
indexes to Yates County Surrogate's Records 1823-1925*
· Lists
of persons named in Surrogate's Records Packets 1-300*
· Every-name
indexes to Yates County Wills, Books A-G *
· Applications
for Civil War and War of 1812 pensions and back pay
Other
Local Resources
· Vital
records in the Penn Yan Democrat 1899-1949*
· Surrogate
Court Records Index*
· Civil War
Draft Roll 1863*
· World War I
Militia Roll 1917*
· Index to
World War I Service Record Cards*
· Name Index to
Yates County's Boys in Blue
· Deaths
of Officers and Enlisted Men from the 1865 Census
· Revolutionary
and War of 1812 Pensioners
· Name index
to Stafford Canning Cleveland's 1873 History of Yates County
· Name index
to Walter Wolcott's Military History of Yates County
· Index to
Nineteenth-Century Indictments*
· Index to
Ex parte case files1823-1921*
· 1872
Necrology, Yates County Chronicle
· Vital
Records from the Yates County Chronicle 1867-1875*
· Vital
Records from the Yates County Whig 1840-1841
· Vital
Records from Penn Yan Democrat 1840s
· Items of genealogical interest from the
Democrat: 1850,
1852,
1853,
1854
· Vital Records
from the Penn Yan Democrat 1860s
· Vital
Records from the Penn Yan Democrat 1870-1895
· Vital
Records from the Penn Yan Express 1894-1897
· Items of
genealogical interest from the Dundee Observer 1878
· Records
of Penn Yan Presbyterian and Congregational Churches 1823-1900
· Cemetery
project: Burials
in the town of Benton
· Cemetery
project: Burials in the town of Milo
· Cemetery
project: Burials in the town of Torrey
· Cemetery
project: Burials in the town of Italy
· Cemetery
project: Burials in the town of Middlesex
· Cemetery
project: Burials in the town of Potter and the village of Rushville
· Cemetery
project: Burials in the town of Jerusalem
· Cemetery
project: Burials in the town of Starkey
· Cemetery
project: Burials in the town of Barrington
· Cemetery
project: Burials in Hillside cemetery, Dundee
· Cemetery
project: Burials in St. Michael's Parish cemeteries, Penn Yan
· Cemetery
project: Burials in Lakeview cemetery, Penn Yan (Purchases 1, 2, 3 East,
3 West and the Free Ground)
· New Index! Index to 1892 Census
· New Index! Index
to 1905 Census
· New Index! Index
to 1915 Census
· New Index! Index
to 1925 Census
The
New York GenWeb Archives contain a great volume of material submitted by
genealogists and others for use by everyone. The posted material isbroken down into categories: Biographies; Obituaries;
Wills; Census; Biblerecords; and Cemetery records.
The Yates County
files have up to now been submitted mostly by Bonnie Bunce, to whom the
County Coordinator is most grateful; other researchers with information and
records they would like to share with us are encouraged to do the same.
New York State Resources: 
· NYGenWeb
· NYGenWeb
Archives
· NY State
Archives
· Ontario
County Archives
· Ontario County Historian
· Ontario
County Historical Society
· Ontario County GenWeb
· Steuben County GenWeb
· Schuyler County GenWeb
· NYFingerLakes-L, a
mailing list devoted to genealogical research in Cayuga, Livingston, Ontario,
Schuyler, Seneca, Tompkins, Wayne and Yatescounties.
To subscribe, send a message to mailto:NYFingerLakes-L-request@rootsweb.comwith
ONLY the word subscribe in the message. Please turn off signature files.
United
States Resources: 
· USGenWeb
· USGenWeb Archives
· National
Archives
Updated 4 March 2004
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