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TOMPKINS COUNTY MAPS (AND RELATED INFO)

• View New York and Tompkins County Maps Page

TOMPKINS COUNTY SOURCES

• Tompkins County Historian
• Town of Caroline Historian
• Names In Stone, cemetery listings and burial maps
• Stereo Views, Photos, Postcards, Newspaper Articles, Etc., scanned by Bill Hecht.
• Linkpendium (Tompkins Co.)
• Twin Tiers Genealogy and History, a wealth of information for the Southern Tier of NY and the Northern Tier of PA, by Irene Johnson.
• Obituary Central Search Engine, specifically for Tompkins County
• Live Views from Cornell University
• History of the Ithaca Calendar Clock Company
• National Register of Historic Places in Tompkins County
• Visit Ithaca, lots of info for anyone planning to visit the area.
• IthacaNet - Information on Tompkins County
• Political Graveyard for Tompkins County
• Tompkins County Railroad Stations
• Tompkins County Newspapers in Microfilm
• Newspaper Abstracts
• Tompkins County Church Records at Cornell
• Poorhouse History for Tompkins County (Internet Archive)
• Local History at Tompkins County Public Library - includes obituary indexes, a nice collection of digital books and more
• Births and Deaths in the Cortland Standard
• Funeral Homes and Obituary Resources
• Perkins Funeral Home, in Dryden
• Herson Wagner Funeral Home obituaries page, in Ithaca
• Herson Funeral Home obit page, in Ithaca
• Lansing Funeral Home obituaries page, in Lansing
• Ness-Sibley Funeral Home, in Trumansburg
• Lansing Star Newspapers - Obituaries section

NEW YORK STATE SOURCES AND MAPS

• New York State Genealogical Research Death Index, currently 1957-1969. Location codes referenced in the database can be found here.
• New York State resources at FamilySearch.org (viewing data requires an account which is free)
• New York State Digital Collections, from the New York State Library and Archives
• Fulton History - NYS newspapers, postcards, and other goodies for Fulton, Auburn, Oswego County and more.
• NYS Historic Newspapers
• New York State Aerial Photos, from Cornell University
• Registered New York County Historians, from the Association of Public Historians of New York State.
• View New York and Tompkins County Maps Page
• Fiske Genealogical Library
• Vital Statistics of Early New York
• New York Gravestones Photo Project, coordinated by W. David Samuelsen
• Ancestors At Rest (New York section)
• Castle Garden (port of entry before Ellis Island was built, 1820-1913)
• NYS Department of State - Division of Cemeteries - Cemetery Lists
• New York State Historical Literature -- from Cornell University Library
• Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness -- New York.
• Information on Cayuga County and Surrounding Area (from Bill Hecht.)
• Photos and Maps of Cayuga County and Surrounding Area (from Bill Hecht. Please let him know if you use his photos (pre-1970s) or have any you'd like to donate.)
• The War of 1812
• Census Online - NY
• Timeline of New York City
• New York History Net
• NY State Library Home Page
• NEW YORK by Theodore Roosevelt 1899
• Some Genealogy for Fingerlakes Region New York State
• Underground Railroad in New York State
• Step Into History - New York State Index
• Central New York NYGenWeb
• Census Figures by County, 1900-1990
• Penny Postcards from New York
• New York Family Group Sheets Project
• New Yorker Links
• James E. Hazard Index of Records of New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
• Northern New York Genealogy - Lewis Publishing Company, c. 1910
• NYGenWeb Archives - statewide search engine. Can also be filtered to a specific county.
• New York Town Histories - at Ray's Place
• Biographical Index of Notable People from the State of New York - from the Brooklyn Genealogy website
• Dunham - Wilcox - Trott - Kirk, great resource by Jane Devlin

SURROUNDING STATE RESOURCES

• Massachusetts State Archives
• New Jersey State Archives
• Pennsylvania State Archives
• Vermont State Archives

LOCAL GENEALOGY WEBSITES

• Armstrongs and related family -- at OldWillow.com
• Bountiful Blessings Bed & Breakfast
• Chez Gulbangi
• Descendants of Antonine Crispel
• Descendants of William Frost
• GenForum
• Lance Larson's Genealogy Page - contains the following surnames: Brown, Frost, Harrington, Morton, Rogers, Williams.
• My Families Branches and Leaves -- Beard, Lunger, Teeter and other local surnames.
• Charles Freer Mulks (1837-1905) Papers 1799-1905, 1975 (a descendant of Benoni Mulks)
• Some Descendants of Ralph Pain
• Teeter Kin
• "Unknown" County, NY Home Page, clues where to research for ancestors when it says "born in NY" or "somewhere in NY"
• Ezra Cornell
• Guide to the Ezra Cornell Papers, 1746-1888
• Ezra Cornell Papers
• Ezra Cornell: A Nineteenth Century Life (1807-1827)

LOCAL GENEALOGY BLOGS

• Growing Up in Willow Creek
• Notable Characters
• Upstate New York Genealogy Blog

GENERAL GENEALOGY RESOURCES

• Genealogy Lookup Forum - find someone who can help you with your research, or sign up to help others.
• Google News Archive
• Family History Archive, a growing archive of online genealogy and history books at Brigham Young University
• Obit Central, obituary archive and obituary search engine directory
• Obit Links Page State-by-state directory of obituary resources and archive
• Genealogy Buff
• Making of America -- Cornell site
• Making of America -- University of Michigan site
• French Surname Project
• The Obituary Daily Times is a daily index of published obituaries US and Canada
• Obituary Index is an index of published obituaries in the United States and internationally
• Downloadable Census Spreadsheets, provided by Gary Minder at Censustools.com
• Genealogy-Quest Glossary of Terms Menu
• Abbreviations
• Diseases
• Epidemics - American
• Occupations
• Terminology
• Land Patent Search -- to locate ancestors who migrated from New York
• Passengers lists on the internet
• Genealogy on and off line
• Naturalization papers examples
• Helpful hints when going to a cemetery
• Migrations - find out where your ancestors went. Thanks, Senja Radcliffe, for sending this in.
• OpenLibrary.org - what is their goal? A web page for every book. Find out where they are available, or view some online.

COMMERCIAL RESOURCES

• Quintin Publications -- a resource for searching through nearly a million collection descriptions from thousands of libraries, museums, and archives.
• ArchiveGrid -- a good general source, but especially for those doing French-Canadian research.
• "Tompkins County Will Testators Index 1817-1903"SAMPUBCO an online resource site by W. David Samuelsen.
• Naturalizations Source
• The NYS GIS Clearinghouse - offers Digital Raster Graphics for NY
• Beaver Dams Homestead, the Diaries of Truman G. Beecher 1862 - 1887
• Vital Records Information - New York

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