NYGenWeb Westchester County, NY   LOOK UPS

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Lookups available

If you have a resource available to you and would be willing to respond to inquiries to look up surnames submitted by researchers, please let Cathy Horn, the County Coordinator, know so that she can add such information to this list. (Her e-mail address appears below.) And please don't forget to thank the generous volunteers for their time and efforts on your behalf.

Peekskill city directory, 1963

John E. LaBarre is willing to check his copy of the 1963 Peekskill City Directory for researchers.

"Vital Records of Christ's Church at Rye NY (1790-1879)" and the "Salmon Records (1696-1811- Southold Long Island)."

The Salmon records list marriages and deaths. The Rye Church records list baptisms (some include birth dates), marriages and deaths, for this and surrounding areas. Will do look ups. Please put "VITAL RECORDS LOOKUP" in the subject line of your message, provide the names of the parties, and provide an approximate date - that is how the information is indexed. E-mail your lookup request to: Marti Millington at: [email protected].

The First Record Book of the "Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow": Marriage Index Arranged by Groom Surname

The church is in Sleepy Hollow (formerly North Tarrytown), Westchester County, NY. See the index to the marriage records covering the years 1698 to 1785 (plus one entry in 1788 and one entry in 1790). If you find a marriage record of interest to you, Jean Ann Orser Lupinetti will provide you with the full entry for that marriage record.

History of Westchester County, New York including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms by Thomas Scharf

Sorry but this book is no longer available for look ups.

Early Wills of Westchester County 1664-1784 by William Pelletreau

Cornell University Library has scanned this book and placed it on their web site: http://library5.library.cornell.edu/moa/moa_search.html
Note: Cornell University's Making of America series of scanned books relating to New York State's history is no longer available in list format. They've changed their pages to a searchable database.

Waldron, William Watson., Huguenots of Westchester and parish of Fordham., [c 1864.], 128 pages

Cornell University Library has also scanned this book and placed it on their web site: http://library5.library.cornell.edu/moa/moa_search.html
Note: Cornell University's Making of America series of scanned books relating to New York State's history is no longer available in list format. They've changed their pages to a searchable database.

NOTE: If you're interested in any other book which has been scanned and uploaded to Cornell's MOA site, visit their main page located at: http://library5.library.cornell.edu/moa/
Note: Cornell University's Making of America series of scanned books relating to New York State's history is no longer available in list format. They've changed their pages to a searchable database.

1899 Membership Register for The Empire State Society, S.A.R.

You can check the list of names by clicking on the word Members to see if your ancestor was a member of this society in 1899.   Any members who were shown in the book either as living in Westchester or as having been born in Westchester County are listed on the Empire State Society SAR page.

The Place-Names of Westchester County, New York>