Livingston County NY GenWeb
Resources & Links
Livingston County GenWeb Pages
Livingston County Area Publications
- Lockwood Doty's 1876 History of Livingston County at Google Books
- French's Gazetteer of New York State, 1860 Livingston County section.
- Some Publications of Livingston County History
Livngston County Area Libraries
- Caledonia Public Library
- Dansville Public Library
- Lima Public Library
- Livonia Public Library
- Milne Library SUNY Geneseo
- Mount Morris Public Library
Archives and Museums
- Livingston County Historian's Office Please note: The Historian's office is now located at the Livingston County Campus, in Mount Morris.
- Livingston County Clerk's Office Geneseo
- Big Springs Museum Caledonia
Early Newspapers
- French's Gazetteer of New York State, 1860, Footnotes include a list of early Livingston County newspapers.
Other Websites of Genealogical Interest
RootsWeb
Societies, Museums, Archives
- Livingston County Historical Society
- Genesee Country Museum
- Livingston County Genealogical Society OR eMail LCGS
- National Archives
- Western New York Genealogical Society
- Central New York Genealogical Society
- New England Historic Genealogical Society
- National Genealogical Society
- LDS Family History and Genealogy Records
Military
- Compiled Service Records War of 1812, 12th Reg't Cav. (boughton's) N.Y. Mil
- New York in the Civil War
- Livingston County NY REGIMENT
- Livingston Men of the 89th NY VI
Commercial
- U.S. National Archives & Records
- Hertiage Books, Inc. (History, Genealogy, Americana)
- Ancestry.Com (Some searches are free. Some require subscription.)
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FingerLakesHouseHistories.com
Historical and Genealogical Research Services
(for-fee researcher Rick Porter lives in Onondago co., NY)
Specialties
- NYS Railroad Stations
- Holland Land Company and Morris Reserve information at Wikipedia.org
- Mayflower Web page: History and Genealogy
Web Pages with Livingston County Connections
Other Great Genealogical Web Sites
The following is a list of Livingston County references books.
If there is an e-mail address link following a reference book, this person has volunteered
their time to search the book for your requested surname. Please limit your request to one surname
per request. Because of copyright issues, we are only allowed to give limited information.
Please contactPublications of Livingston County History and Genealogy
Liz Cornish if you have or know of any other Livingston County references
and/or are willing to do look-ups.
- Anderson, Mildred Lee and Marian Piper Willey. St. Helena, Ghost Town of the Genesee,1797-1954, Castile, NY, M.L. Anderson, 1970.
- Boyd, William, History of Conesus, New York, 1887.
- Bunnell, A.O., ed., Dansville 1789-1902, Dansville,NY, Instructor Publishing Co.,1902.
- Doty, Lockwood R., A History of Livingston County, New York , Geneseo,NY, E.E. Doty,1876.
- Doty, Lockwood R., History of the Genesee Country, Chicago, S.J. Clark Publishing Co.,1925.
- Hand, Henry Wells, Centennial History of the Town of Nunda, 1808 - 1908 , reprinted in cooperation with the Office of Historian, Town of Nunda, Livingston County, New York. Contact: Patricia A. Harter or Loretta M. Wilkening
- Hatch, Alden, The Wadsworths of Geneseo, New York, Coward McCann, 1959.
- Moose, Lloyd, History of the Story Road and Vicinity (1932, Sparta-Springwater area),Hornell,NY, Alice M. Oakes, 1981.
- Parsons, Rev. Levi and Samuel L. Rockwellow, 1794 - 1894 Mount Morris Centenary, reprinted by the Mount Morris Historical Society. Contact: Patricia A. Harter
- Patchett, Anna E., Historically Speaking, Geneseo, Livingston County Historical Society,1978. (63 pages)
- Preston, Marie, Avon, Heart of the Genesee Country , Avon, Avon Herald-News, Inc., 1958.
- Root, Mary R., History of York, Caledonia,NY, Big Springs Historical Society, 1940.
- Smith, James H., History of Livingston County, New York, Syracuse,NY, D.Mason & Co.,1881.
- Walbidge, Orson, Early History of the town Springwater, Livingston County, 1887. Refer to the Database for the complete book online.
- Wright, Albert Hazen, The Sullivan Expedition of 1779, The Regimental Rosters of Men. Rooster list of the 6,000 men on the Expedition. It gives name, rank, company, and regiment. Contact: Sheila Charlton Spencer