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This page gives Bibliographies for the sources I have used on this web.
It also lists other resources that are available for various subjects.
Gainesville & Wyoming County - General
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Gainesville Historian: Stanley
Rutherford & wife Judy.
4344 Gainesville Rd.; Silver Springs 14550, Phone (585) 786-5603
Gainesville Librarian: Mary Mann
Site Web Master:
Randy Hume, 205 Cassandra Dr.; Chalfont, PA 18914
Wyoming County Historian: Doris Bannister
26 Linwood Ave.; Warsaw, NY 14569
The Historian's Office seems receptive to genealogy research and
maintains family files.
They also sell several publications including:
Historical Wyoming - Quarterly Journal. They also have an
index of past issues.
Census Books - One for each township covering several decades.
Wyoming County RootsWeb Page - The website for all of
Wyoming County.
US GenWeb Page - To get to
other states and many country wide projects.
Wyoming County Mail List -
This list is a great place to ask questions about Wyoming County.
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Beers, Illustrated History of Wyoming County, New York, 1841-1880;
Reprinted 1994 by Heart of the
Lakes Publishing; Interlaken, NY
Wyoming County, An Architectural Tour; James R.
Yarrington,
Arts Council for Wyoming
Co., Photos by Mary Hamm Wertz |
History
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"The Town of Gainesville",
by Stanley Rutherford - Town Historian,
as published in Historical Wyoming, Vo.
XXVIII, July 1991List of Gainesville early settlers and lot numbers -
Beers, Illustrated History of Wyoming County, New
York, 1841-1880, pg. 190
Reprinted 1994 by Heart of the
Lakes Publishing; Interlaken, NY
Chazanof, William; Joseph Ellicott and the Holland Land Company,
The Opening
of Western New York, Syracuse University Press, 1970 - Centered
around Ellicott's
life and contribution to both the Holland Land Co. and Western NY
Brooks, Charles E., Frontier Settlement and
Market Revolution, The Holland
Land Purchase, Cornell University Press, 1996 - Study of
frontier financial development,
using Western NY as the example. Description of financial
difficulties of early settlement.
Evans, Paul Demund, The Holland Land Company, A.M.
Kelley, 1975, reprint of 1924 ed
published by Buffalo Historical Society. Covers the history of the
Holland Land Co.,
in both NY and PA, and compares their approach to other earlier land
settlements.
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Maps
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1810 Holland Land Co. Purchases -
Graphic created by Randy Hume, based on
data from
Beers, Illustrated History of Wyoming County, New
York, 1841-1880, pg. 190
Reprinted 1994 by Heart of the
Lakes Publishing; Interlaken, NY
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1825 Map of
Holland Land Company - Shows how the area was divided into columns
running N-S called ranges, then numbered from the south boarder north
called towns.
SUNY@ Stony Brook
http://www.sunysb.edu/libmap/westny.htm
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Formation of New York State Counties
(off-site)
Formation "evolution" of all the counties: Ontario 1789,
Genesee 1803, and Wyoming 1841
Also, County maps for census years, and data about each county.
North East Genealogy On-Line:
http://www.negenealogy.com/ny/ny_maps.htm
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1866 Maps - Beers, S.N & D.G. and
Assistants; New Topographical Atlas of
Genesee and Wyoming Counties, New York; Stone & Stewart,
Philadelphia, 1866
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1905 Topographical Maps
University of New
Hampshire DIMOND LIBRARY, Documents Department & Data Center
Historic USGS Maps of New England & New York;
http://docs.unh.edu/
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New York State Topographical Map
with County Boundries, by the State of New York
http://www.nysegov.com/map-NY.cfm?displaymode=normal&fontsize=100&contrast=lod&
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Soldiers & Wars
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Revolutionary War
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Abstracts of Rev. War Pension Files
- White, Virgil D, The National Historical Publishing Co.
Waynesboro, TN 1990.
Abstracts of Rev. War Service Records - White, Virgil D, The
National Historical Publishing Co.
Waynesboro, TN 1995.
The American Heritage Book of The Revolution, New York, 1958,
pg. 316-319 |
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