Laini Giles donated a large collection of newspaper clippings, obituaries and undertaker records for Tompkins County. We have completed the Newfield Undertaker's book and have added news items from 1882-1900. Thank you Laini!

Newfield Undertaker's Book (1903-1922, plus additional records for 1904-1912 and assorted entries for 1865-1870)
News Items from Various Sources - 1882-1900

We have a few more links to Bill Hecht's scanned and transcribed material:

• Photograph - Moraine near Cortland, N. Y. (possibly Freeville?)
• Looking down the Upper Taughannock Ravine - from the first fall - near Ithaca, N. Y.
• Fall Creek, - Second Fall, Ithaca (woodcut)
• Articles from The Casket, Philadelphia, 1829 (one on Goodwin's Falls)
• Forest Fall, from Tunnel Fall Creek, Ithaca, N. Y.
• Fall Creek, Second Fall or Forest Fall (New York State Scenery)
• Photograph of Sage Hall (formerly a women's residence hall, built 1875), Cornell University
• Photograph of Uris Library, with McGraw Tower in background, man in photo is standing on Libe Slope

We have still more links to Bill Hecht's scanned and transcribed material (Thanks Bill!):

• Advertisement - June 15, 1920 - Thomas-Moore Aircraft Corporation, plane flying over Ithaca, N. Y.
• Photograph - Fall Creek Valley. Portage escarpment, and dip slope to north, April 1828
• Remington Salt Company - Evaporating Salt Brine by Steam to Obtain Salt, Ithaca, N. Y.
• Photograph - Buried gorge and terrace held up by rock spur, Six Mile Creek. Dam site in distance. June 1908
• Photograph - Meander stream valley, Inlet Valley also moraines, kettle ponds south of Ithaca
• Early Roads and Ferries, The Genesee Highway and Seneca Turnpike Roads, by Fred Teller
• Photograph - the Steamer Frontenac and Frontenac Island
• Photograph - Lorelei Cliff - Looking Towards Valley
• Photograph - Enfield, New York. Terminal Moraine
• Photograph - Moraine at Edge of Enfield Gorge
• Photograph - Flood in the Inlet, Ithaca, N. Y., C. S. Downes, April 15, 1896
• Taughannock Ravine, from West Bank above the fall, near Ithaca, N. Y. (Stereo View)
• 1881 Article - The Beauty of Cayuga Lake, in The Weekly Ithacan
• Lick Brook or Buttermilk Ravine? (Views of Lick Brook and Buttermilk Ravines)

We have more links to Bill Hecht's scanned and transcribed material:

• View From the Hog's Back - Upper Taughannock Ravine, top of main fall in the foreground, Cayuga Lake in the distance (Stereo View)
• Taughannock Falls and Ravine, Looking over the Falls (Stereo View)
• Description of Cayuga Lake Scenery Stereo View Series
• Fall Creek, Second Fall, Ithaca (Stereo View)
• Ithaca Gun-shop Hill, Cornell and boat basin and hanging deltas (Photograph)

We have more links to Bill Hecht's scanned and transcribed material:

• Steamboats on Cayuga Lake, April 18, 1828 article from the Christian Mirror
• Photograph of the Steamer Iroquois
• Photograph of Glenwood Hotel
• Brown Transportation Scrapbook
• Taughannock Falls (Stereo View)
• Photograph of southeastern end of Cayuga Lake
• Photograph of Gorge at to of Ithaca Falls
• Photograph of Cascadilla Valley from Campus Bridge, J. O. Martin, 1898
• Photograph of Cayuga Lake from McGraw Tower, J. O. Martin, 1898
• Photograph of Cornell University
• General View of Ithaca, Cayuga Lake in Distance (Stereo View)
• Ithaca Falls (Stereo View)
• Triphammer Falls from top of bluff, showing footbridge and winding stairs (Stereo View)

We have more links to Bill Hecht's scanned and transcribed material:

• Company 1265, Camp 39, C. C. C., Enfield State Park, P. O. Newfield, N. Y. (postcard)
• Taghkanic [sic] Falls, 215 feet high, Ithaca, N. Y. (Stereo View)
• First Fall, Taughannock Ravine (Stereo View)
• Lick Brook (Stereo View)
• Woodcuts from The Scenery of Ithaca and the Headwaters of the Cayuga Lake, by Spence Spencer
• Ithaca Falls, near Cayuga Lake (Stereo View)
• Summit Falls in Upper Ravine (Stereo View)
• Butter Milk Ravine from above Steeple Rock
• Photograph of the Brooktondale Trestle
• Postcard of Myers, New York

We have more links to Bill Hecht's scanned and transcribed material:

• Photograph of Pennsylvania Crew Race Rail Cars, 1899 (Cornell University)
• Taghkanic [sic] Gorge (Stereo View)
• Ravine below Taghcanic [sic] Falls (Stereo View)
• Upper Taughhannock Ravine - West Quarries (Stereo View)
• Two Unknown Scenes of people in front of houses, possibly in Trumansburg (Stereo Views)
• Enfield Creek, near Ithaca - Cascade Above Main Falls (Stereo View)
• Taughanic [sic] Falls (Stereo View)
• Lick Brook (Stereo View)

We have more links to Bill Hecht's scanned and transcribed material:

• Postcard of The Boathouse (Cornell University)
• Postcard of the Ag School and Bailey Hall (Cornell University)
• Taughannock Falls, man standing on top of Falls (Stereo View)
• Lick Brook, vieled falls (Stereo View)
• 6th, or Flume Falls, Ithaca Gorge (Stereo View)
• Pulpit Falls, Buttermilk Creek, Ithaca (Stereo View)
• View on Six Mile Creek (Stereo View)
• Ithaca Fall (Stereo View)
• Postcard of Fall Creek
• Fall Creek, c. 1890 (Photograph)
• Postcard of Bailey Hall and Tennis Courts (Cornell University)
• Photograph of Enfield Ravine, 1898

We have added the following links to Bill Hecht's scanned and transcribed material:

• The Scenery of Ithaca, Spence Spencer, 1866 - Lick Brook (text)
• Upper Fall, Townley Creek Near Ludlowville (Stereo View)

We have added the following links to Bill Hecht's scanned images on our index page:

• Glenwood Hotel, Ithaca, 1924 (Photograph)
• Main and Upper Fall on Lick Brook (Stereo View)
• Fall Creek - First or Foaming Fall (Stereo View)
• Cascade and Fall on Lick Brook (Stereo View)

We have added the 1903-1917 records to the Newfield Undertaker's Book. Thanks to Laini Giles for donating and transcribing this information!

Laini Giles has donated a large collection of newspaper clippings, obituaries and undertaker records for Tompkins County. We have the first set of records up on the site in the Scrapbook section. Thank you Laini!

Obituaries from the Ithaca Journal
Newfield Tribune Snippets from January 11, 1890
Newfield Undertaker's Book (1903-1909)

We have added several links to our Off-Site Resources page that may be of interest:

• Northern New York Genealogy - Lewis Publishing Company, c. 1910
• NYGenWeb Archives - recent uploads
• New York Town Histories - at Ray's Place

We have added the new Google search engine to our web site! The Google search engine allows us to have the same functionality we had before, and it costs less and is easier for us to maintain.

You will notice that there are no longer checkboxes to select a county on the main page. You can still filter your search to a specific county. After you run a search, you will see links at the top of the page to see hits for a specific county.

We have added the following links to Bill Hecht's scanned images on our index page:

• Gorge Cascade - Enfield Ravine (No. 7006 - Scenery of Ithaca and Vicinity) (Stereo View)
• Butter Milk Creek, Ithaca - Steeple Rock (Stereo View)
• Cornell Cascade (No. 286 - Cayuga Lake Scenery, Views of Lick Brook and Buttermilk Ravines
• Enfield Fall, 160 ft. high (No. 1024, Spence Spencer, University Bookstore)
• Description of Scenery In and About Ithaca Series (Stero View description)
• No. 1024 A - Enfield Fall, 160 ft. high
• No. 1020 - Enfield Ravine C

We have added the following links to Bill Hecht's scanned images on our index page:

• Enfield Gorge Series No. 212 - Upper Section of Main Falls, from Rock Point (Stereo View)
• Buttermilk Falls, Steeple Rock from South Cliff (Stereo View)

We are also in the process of putting the stereo view series together in sets.

We have added the following links to Bill Hecht's scanned images on our index page:

• View of the Lunger Tragedy out near Goodwins Point (Stereo View)

The following surnames have been submitted to the website:

• Bennett - Barb Ward
• Boughton - Don Tracy
• Brown - Ralph Edwards
• Kane - John Kane
• Richey - Ken Grantham
• Tyler - Dave Tyler
• Updike - Ken Grantham
• Yaple/Yaples - Michelle (Yaples) Kee

If you have submitted email address changes, we have updated those as well.

We have added the following links to Bill Hecht's scanned images on our index page:

• Glenwood Falls (Stereo View)
• Glenwood Hotel (Stereo View)
• Ithaca Falls (Stereo View)

We would like to honor a volunteer to the Tompkins County website, Senja K. Radcliffe, of Tompkins Co., N.Y., who died Jan. 23, 2007.  She will be sadly missed.
From: The Tompkins Co., NYGenWeb Team of Volunteers