Museum hours:
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& Saturdays noon to 4 PM.
Closed Saturdays during December, January & February.
Admission to the research library is 10 AM to 3:30 PM.
Special requests for other days & hours can often be accomodated.
Updating to the research library collection listings are
in process and will be made available when complete.
Readers should call ahead to be sure of availability of an item.
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References Available:
Back to Schuyler
co. Historians & Clerks
(with more info on how to request copies of items listed here)
Individual Family Histories:
Beach, Daniel - diary, 1852-58
- he was Superintendent of Common Schools, Tyrone.
Bishop
Brown (2)
Bossard, Bozard, Buzzard
Budd
Burns
Carpenter/Ellis
Catlin (2)
Charles Weeks I & II
Cleveland, McCarty, Howell
Corbet
Cole
Corbett
Corbett, Robert 1683-1995
(2)
Culver
Curry, William & Charity
Lockwood
Davis (2)
Dickens
Dimmick
Dunham, Fred J/Jessie Weller/Margaret
Dunham Holbrook
Dunham
Egelston
Ellis/Carpenter
Ellis
Eldred, Eldredge, Eldridge
Eldred, Eldredge, Eldridge,
Samuel
Fiero
Fennells
Ferris, Jeffrey & family
Fish/Whitmore
Giles
Goldsmith
Goultry (2)
Hamilton
Harvey
Hays/Hayes
Hendrickson
Hicks
David Bennet Hill
Hitchcock, descendants of
Thomas Jeremiah Hitchcock.
Howell
Hugh Jackson Irish/Janet
Frances McGowan
Ijay
Karam
Lamereaux
Lovell
Alexander McCreery Clan
Jerimiah McGuire/Electa
Watkins McGuire/Katherine McGuire
Magee
Mallett
[Meeks/Mix & related
families of Stone, Stuart, Smith, Broas, Reckord, Judd...click
here.]
Nichols
Rathbone
James Henry Rice/Estella
Chaffee Rice
Rood (2)
Sandford
Santee
Schuyler Family
Sebring
Slater
Smith (6)
Squire Simmons
Smock
Sproule, Alfred N. - a project
he did for Cornell Univ. in 1923.
Stiles
Stilwell
Stone, John C. of Lima,
NY- a 1852 notebook.
Stuart [also go
here]
Samuel Sturtevant
Swick
Taber
Tracy
Updike
Van Rensselaer
Waldron/Payne
Whitmore/Fish
Whitman
Wheeler
Wixson [see this
page]
Woodford
Woodward
Wykeham
Cemetery Records:
Logan Cemetery (Town of Hector)
Grove Cemetery
St. James Cemetery
Glenwood Cemetery (Watkins,
Town of Dix)
Montour Cemetery (Town of
Montour)
Valois Cemetery (Town of
Hector)
Tompkins County (near Schuyler
co. border only)
Yates County (near Schuyler
co. border only)
Towns of:
Catharine
Cayuta
Montour
Hector
Reading
Tyrone
Dix
Orange
[Most are on this
website, except for the larger cemeteries, or those in other counties.]
Census Records:
Newfield [Tompkins co.] 1850
Cayuta 1855-1915
Catharine 1855, 1865, 1875,
1915
Hector 1850, 1855, 1860,
1865, 1875, 1915
Dix 1855, 1860, 1865, 1875,
1915,
Montour 1865, 1875, 1915
Orange 1855, 1860, 1865,
1875, 1915
Reading 1855, 1915
Tyrone 1860, 1865, 1875,
1915
[1855 census for all of Schuyler co. is already on this site,
with 1875 to follow.]
For census records before 1855, write to the original county that included
the town...go here for county boundary change info.
Church Records:
Baptist Church of Christ,
Lodi, NY, 1804-1926.
Sugar Hill Presbyterian
Church, 1822-1907.
Baptist Church of Valois,
1841-1950.
Baptist Church of Catlin,
1860-1898.
Class Year Books: Odessa and Watkins Glen.
Schuyler co. School Records, 1815-1912.
- Catharine (District #10) 1883-1901.
- Spencer & Cayuta (District #5) 1815-1912
- others?
Vital Records for Schuyler co. (Births, Marriages, Deaths, Obits.)
in a card file.
Schuyler co. Surrogate Court Records, 1882-1913 and 1883-1886.
Schuyler co. Court Records, 1870-1892.
Schuyler co. Election records, 1888-1965.
Cash Accounts and Store Records (approx. 1840-1906):
- a few of these are online via the Resource
Index.
Clark & A. Jackson
Altay Store
Adams, Gregory & Clark,
et. al.
E.R. Bissell
S.H. Carpenter
John C. Dewall of Tyrone
S.F. Griffith of Tyrone
Peg Long & Nancy Dunn
of Tyrone (millinery)
Wm. H. Mills of Tyrone
Wm. B. Owen of Burdett
J.T. Prince of Alpine
Chas. E. Shafer of Tyrone
Pierson Holman's day book
Watkins Store ledger
D.D. Wakerman of Searsburg
Sam Baker
Robt. S. Hughey (Matthias
Cratley estate)
Nathaniel Treg
Cayutaville Telephone Company
Dr. Sherwood
John Beebe
Thos. L. Lawyer of Odessa
Eugene Sawyer of Odessa
Directory of Chemung co. & Schuyler co., 1868-1869.
[Sometimes birthplaces & dates are given, or family relationships.]
Business Directory Schuyler County, 1893-1894.
Farm Directory 1914 for Yates, Schuyler, Tompkins, and Seneca
Counties.
[All of Schuyler is available on this website.]
History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler Counties
(pub. 1879).
[Go here
for a list of the Schuyler men featured in bios. in this book.]