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| Cuba, New York Cemetery |
| Look-Ups for Allegany County and Its People by John S. Minard and the Beers' History of Allegany County may be posted to the Rootsweb/Ancestry Allegany County Message Board. Please use the category Look-Up. Many biographies from these books are already posted on the board. Search the Biography category. |
| William C. Hardy, 1784 - 1867, England - New York, The Legancy Must Continue, by Steven and Gwendolyn Hardy Harris |
Maureen does look-ups for three counties and two states. You MUSTinclude the township, county and state in the look-up. |
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| Federal Census for the Town of GENESEE, only - 1900, 1880, 1870, 1860, 1850 - Please specify which census - requests for other towns will be ignored. Town of Genesee Sesquicentennial, 1830-1980 |
| American Place Names of Long Ago (1898/1999) |
| Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States (1855) |
| The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States (1902) |
| Medical Miscellany (look up for those obsolete medical terms one might find on death certificates, etc.) |
| The Kellers of Hamilton Township, by by David Henry Keller, M.D., 1922., chapter on ""The New York Kellers (of Cuba, NY)" includes three siblings (Andrew, Christopher, and Susanna) who moved there (eventually) from Hamilton Township. |
| The Life and Times of Major Moses VanCampen, originally printed 1842, reprinted by Allegany Co. Historical Society, 1982 -- Contains information on the VanCampen family, as well as a bit about the founding or the community of Almond. |
| Stephens/Stevens Genealogy by Plowdon Stevens, 1909. Starts with Henry Stephens in 1668. - includes Bakers and other families from Allegany County. |
| The Almond Story: The Early Years, John F. Reynolds, 1962. Indexed by Bobby Title |
| Pioneer History of the Holland Land
Purchase, by Orasmus Turner Includes names and biographies of the pioneers of the Holland Land Purchase in the early 1800's. Early names from Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Niagara, Genesee, Orleans, Erie & Wyoming Cos. |
| Sexton Book of the Alger Cemetery (Town of Hume) includes graves of many northern Allegany and southern Wyoming counties Pioneer families |
| Hume Pioneer Sketches, by John S. Minard, 1889 |
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