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History

• An Historical Outline

• Maps of the County's Growth

         1790
         1800
         1810
         1820
         1825
         1835
         1855
 
• A Yates County Gallery

         Topics
             The Pre-emption Line
             The War of 1812
             Before the Civil War
             Penn Yan
         People
             The Universal Friend
             Joshua Lee
             John Thomas
             Abraham Wagener
         Places
             Milo Center
             Tom Lee's Highway
             Two Villages: How Penn Yan Got its Name
             Jackson Street: A Working-Class Neighborhood
         Lists
             The 1790 Census
             A 1792 tax roll
             Veterans of the War of 1812
             US Colored Troops from Yates County
         Pictures
             The Mansion House
             A Top Buggy
             The Court House
             Croquet on the Lawn

The Historian's Office

• County Historian
• Other offices

The Yates County Genweb Page

• Queries
• Lookups

Basic Research Resources

• County records
  Census
  Military records
  Civil War Draft Rolls
  Militia Enrollment 1917
  Immigration and Naturalization Records
  Surrogate Court records
  Other Court Records
  Nineteenth Century Indictments
  Ex Parte Case Files 1823-1921
  Land records
  Marriage Records
   
• Municipal records
  Vital records
  Town Tax rolls
  Village Tax Rolls
  Highway records
   
• Towns
  Barrington
  Benton
  Italy
  Jerusalem
  Middlesex
  Milo
  Potter
  Starkey
  Torrey
   
• Villages
  Dresden
  Dundee
  Penn Yan
  Rushville
   

• Church records

St John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Records
First Free Congregational Church of Penn Yan
First Presbyterian Church of Penn Yan: 1823and1826-28
Congregational Church of Rushville (records 1811-1906): History   Index
 
• Published sources

The Penn Yan Democrat 1840s
The Penn Yan Democrat 1850
The Penn Yan Democrat 1852
The Penn Yan Democrat 1853
The Penn Yan Democrat 1854
The Penn Yan Democrat 1860s
The Penn Yan Democrat 1870-1895
The Penn Yan Democrat 1898-1949
The Penn Yan Whig 1840s
The Dundee Observer 1878
Stafford C Cleveland's History and Directory of Yates County, 1873
Yates County's "Boys in Blue" 1861-1865
The Yates County Cemetery Project
Walter Wolcott's Military History of Yates County, NY