Birth certificates: Available from 1881 to 75 years ago and the person must be known to be dead Death Certificates: Available from 1881 to 50 years ago. Marriage Certificates: Available from 1881 to 50 years if both bride and groom deceased. Direct Descendants: Time period are waived for direct descendants. Local: You might also find it easier to the local registrar or town clerk of the place where the birth or death occurred or where the marriage certificate was issued NYS Indexes: Going to be near one of the cities listed below?  If so you can check for microfiched indices for ALL of "public" New York State births, deaths, and marriages.  These can now be searched by the general public saving you expensive searching fees. You can find out ahead of time if the record exists, which town it is in, filing date, volume and page numbers.  All this will to make your trip to the registrar's or town clerk's office a productive on and save you having to pay a fee for a search that produces a "Not Found" result. Rochester Albany Rochester Public Library 115 South Avenue Rochester, NY,14604 M,Th 9am-9pm,  T,W,F 9am-6pm Sat 9am-5pm, Sun 1-5 (585)-428-7300  TDD 454-8023 New York State Archives,  Cultural Education Center, Empire State Plaza, Albany Monday through Friday, 9:00-4:45 New York City Syracuse National Archives, NE Region 201 Varick Street New York, NY 10014; Telephone (212) 337-1300 Onondaga County Public Library 447 South Salina Street, Syracuse, NY 13202; Telephone (315) 435-1900 CAVEAT: Transcription, reproduction, loan or sale of indexes is not permitted. Several microfiche readers are available for use, however, researchers will be limited to one hour's use of a microfiche reader, if other persons are waiting to use the readers.  For more information  NYS Request Genealogical Services in PDF Format

(Link to NYS Document Repository no longer exists)

The Church of the Latter Day Saints (LDS) has put up the 1880 Federal Census on their web page at http://www.familysearch.org - you can access the census directly by clicking on the following link.

LDS 1880 Federal Census
 The above site is owned and maintained by the LDS

Information submitted by volunteers

• 1855 Lyndon Census online
• Selected 1850 Census Records for Napoli
• Selected 1850 Census Records for Great Valley
• Selected 1850 Census Records for Humphrey
• 1850 Census Records for Ischua-Rice
• Lyndon Vital Statistics (Birth and Death Records)
• 1850 Lyndon Census Index
• Index to the 1820 Census
• 1820 Great Valley Head of House Census
• 1820 Olean Head of House Census
• 1820 Ischua Head of Household Index and Full Data File
• 1820 Little Valley Head of House Census
• 1835 Hinsdale Census Pages [including Ischua area] (Courtesy of C. Savely & K. Seward
• 1880 Census Index for the town of Franklinville
• Extracted Vitals from Olean Democrat April 1887
  
• New York State Census Indices [1855 ]  [1865 ]  [1875 ] [ 1892 ]
  

Records from 1st Presbyterian Church to 1874

1855

 
1855 Cattaraugus Indices by Alphabetical Surname

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If you would like to have the entire 1865 index for all of Cattaraugus County so that you can browse it on your computer, you can download it here.  You can download it either as an HTML file, or as a MS Word Document.  Both are available to download in compressed (zip) format, either as a ZIP file, or as a self-extracting .EXE file.  Warning, after they are decompressed (unzipped), they are HUGE, over 9mb, and even on your hard drive they will take some time to open.
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llegany	Franklinville	Machias	Randolph
Ashford	Freedom	Mansfield	Salamanca
Carrolton	Great Valley	Napoli	South Valley
Cold Spring	Hinsdale	New Albion	Yorkshire
Connewango	Humphrey	Olean
Dayton	Ischua	Otto
East Otto	Leon	Perrysburg
Ellicottville	Little Valley	Persia
Farmersville	Lyndon	Portville

1875  State Census Indices:  (Links will go "hot" as each town's index comes online)

Allegany	Franklinville	Lyndon	Portville
Ashford	Freedom	Machias	Randolph
Carrolton	Great Valley	Mansfield	Red House
Cold Spring	Hinsdale	Napoli	Salamanca
Connewango	Humphrey	New Albion	South Valley
Dayton	Indian Reservation	Olean	Yorkshire
East Otto	Ischua	Otto
Ellicottville	Leon	Perrysburg
Farmersville	Little Valley	Persia

Other links of interest. 

by Mark Reed with links to cenus information on line.  Most of links are to our own GENWEB sites, but there are some others.  A helpfull tool to help simplify navigation if you are researching just census information	New York GenWeb Cemetery Links Abany-Niagara  Oneida-Yates Some of these links just point back to this web site. However, there are many links to other countys and other web sites outside of the GenWeb realm.	Some very  nice XL spreadsheets to help you organize your census information.  Not only forms to duplicate different census forms, but also "Census Trackers" which allow you to organize all the census information on a particular individual.       These sheets are what we used to call "Honorware", they are essentially free, you don't need to pay anything to download and use them.  However, the author does asks for a purely voluntary donation of $10 (via Amazon.com's Honor System) if you are satisfied and use the spreadsheets.
National  Archives and Records Aministration web site with information on the 1930 Federal Census This is is a link to a comprehensive guide to the 1930 census. Learn how the census was taken, which records survive today,  and how to find microfilm that may contain your family's records.

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