HERKIMER COUNTY LINKS OF INTEREST

This page is one of the most useful resources on our site. Some of the sites aren't genealogy sites; former area residents can "go back home". Some non-county historical sites and commercial vendors are also listed. Please notify us if a link doesn't work.

HERKIMER COUNTY MILITARY LINKS

FAMILY GENEALOGY PAGES WITH HERKIMER/MONTGOMERY CONNECTIONS

GOVERNMENT RESOURCES

National Archives Home Page: the place to go for info about microfilm availability and roll numbers, forms to order military and pension records, info on each regional branch of the National Archives, etc.

New York State Library Home Page

Genealogical Research at the NY State Library

New York State Archives and Records Administration

New York State Historical Association: at Cooperstown, NY. A large site, including info on their research library.

Mohawk Valley Library Association

The Documentarian: award-winning section of the above site, includes a number of resources on the local history and genealogy of our region

The New York State Newspaper Project: check this out for old newspapers for all NY State counties; now includes city search option

NY State Historic Markers

NYS Library List of County Newspapers

New York State Historical Association Research Library

GENERAL GENEALOGY RESOURCES

Ellis Island Immigration Records: searchable records database with millions names of the immigrants who came through Ellis Island between 1 January 1892, when Ellis Island opened, and December 1924.

RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees

Rootsweb's WorldConnect Project

GenSeeker: search engine accessing almost all sites at RootsWeb and many genealogical sites elsewhere on the Web

US GenWeb Archives Table of Contents

NYGenWeb Archives - NY State

Rootsweb's Searchable Social Security Death Index

Rootsweb Town Search: type in town and it will return county and states

New York State Off-line Resources: where to find NY State books in our state libraries. A work in progress.

A Guide to New York Historical Resources Making Of America: Cornell Univ. online history books and useful genealogical resources.

National DAR Homepage: Discover resources you never knew existed.

Notable Women Ancestors

Newspaper Abstracts Project

Central New York Genealogical Society

New York Roots: formerly the New York History and Genealogy Project

Palatines to America Home Page

The Grand Army of the Republic Posts in New York State: the G.A.R. was the Civil War veterans organization.

Orphans Home Site: to aid researchers with ancestral orphans via transcriptions and citations of orphan listings from United State and Canadian censuses, orphanage information (addresses, those not reporting to censuses, location of records), orphanage rosters as obtained, message boards, and more. Search, post, and contribute.

Yahoo's Online Language Translator: translate English to other languages, and vice versa; not totally accurate but sufficient to get the gist

Past Connections: keepsakes that have been found at yard and garage sales, flea markets, estate sales and other sources (thank you to Marie Bartley Coppola for this one)

Geneanet's Unknown Photographs

Association for Gravestone Studies: articles and links to cemetery-related materials

Historical Societies of NY State: listings of societies all over the state

LDS Records Search

Find-a-Grave: state-by-state listings of cemeteries and person search



Interment.net: state-by-state listings to online cemeteries

EarlyAmerica.com

The Poorhouse Story: clearinghouse for information about 19th century American poorhouses

Census Online - Links to Online Census Records

Census Online - New York State

TheHistoryCalendar.com: calendar of historical events, activities, meetings, exhibits, lectures, etc. from all over the U.S.!

COUNTY HISTORY RESOURCES

Three Rivers... Hudson-Mohawk-Schoharie Site : large website covering history of the Mohawk Valley and beyond

Town of Webb Historical Association: according to Peg Masters, director, "Our museum is located at the corner of Gilbert and Main St. in Old Forge across from the postoffice - the Goodsell Memorial Home.

Adirondack Research Library

Erie Canal Chronology and Bibliography

The Erie Canal Home Page

Herkimer Home State Historic Site

Drums Along the Mohawk: The American Revolution on the New York Frontier

The Political Graveyard of Herkimer County:
birthplaces, death places, and cemeteries of politicians

Existing Old Railroad Stations of New York State: searchable database

The Old Mohawk-Turnpike Book

Mid-York Library System

Elgin County Ontario Canada Genealogical Society: look here for members' Loyalist surnames

Herkimer County Poorhouse History

Herkimer County N.Y. Genforum Board

New World Dutch Barns Society

Tryon County NYGenWeb: visit the "parent county" of Herkimer and Montgomery; source for regional pre-Revolutionary War history and genealogy. Site last updated in 1998; no coordinator.

MAILING LISTS

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OTHER COUNTY RESOURCES

The Herkimer Evening Telegram: Herkimer; covers Herkimer, Ilion, Mohawk, Frankfort, Schuyler and the Kuyahoora Valley

Herkimer Evening Telegram Obituary Index

The Evening Times: Little Falls

Utica Observer Dispatch: Utica's paper, lots of Herkimer coverage

Ilion Jr/Sr High School Alumni Home Page

Herkimer County Community College

Little Falls, NY Page

Fenner Funeral Home

Central New York Fire Apparatus: lots of great pictures of fire trucks from all over.

Adirondack History Network

MAPS

Thomas Kitchin's Mohawk Valley Map of 1772

Herkimer County Map

Map of the Erie Canal

United States Digital Map Library : a project of the USGenWeb Archives.

1868 Map of the State of New York Showing its Canals and Railroads: a must see. 249k jpeg

Central New York Town Map

Panoramic View Maps

LINKS FOR TRAVELERS

We've received many requests for tourism information. The Herkimer County NY GenWeb page isn't sponsored by any government or other agency or historical society. In response to most of your requests, we haven't had ready or up-to-date answers to your questions and weren't able to be of much help, a waste of our mutual time. We recommend you do what we'd do ourselves - see what's out there on one of the major search engines.

Herkimer County Chamber of Commerce: Planning a research trip to Herkimer County? This site includes links to motels, campsites, historic sites, restaurants, etc.

Herkimer County Chamber of Commerce
P. O. Box 129
28 W. Main Street
Mohawk, New York 13407
Phone: (315) 866-7820
Schoharie County Chamber of Commerce

Erie Canal Village: driving to or from Herkimer and Montgomery County, stop in to neighboring Oneida County. Erie Canal Village recreates canal life in the mid-1800s. Includes three museums; a mule-drawn packet boat, narrow gauge railroad ride, horse drawn vehicles, former Merry and Weeks cheese factory, old tavern, blacksmith shop, canal general store, print shop, one-room school house, and other historical buildings.

National Register of Historical Places

COMMERCIAL RESOURCES

Listing of commercial resources for books does not imply our endorsement of any particular services. Companies listed are dedicated to helping researchers in the on-line genealogical community and are committed to giving good personal service.

W. David Samuelsen's Will Testators Indexes Online

Hope Farm Press

Heritage Books

PROFESSIONAL RESEARCHERS

Sorry, but it's our firm policy to NEVER, EVER recommend or endorse professional and/or "for hire" genealogists. As we're not historians or professional genealogists ourselves, we're in no position to vouch for anyone's qualifications, track record or honesty. To do so would be akin to setting up a blind date. If something goes wrong, guess who's blamed? As genealogy becomes more popular and commercialized, unqualified "researchers" and services run by charlatans are hanging up their shingles and eager to flatten your wallet. To engage the services of **qualified researchers**, please contact the societies listed on our historical societies page. Society personnel are personally familiar with professionals (some certified, some not) who regularly use their collections and can put you in contact with someone qualified to undertake your particular assignment. This advice should be heeded with any location you're researching in. Caveat emptor = Buyer Beware.

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