Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve learned or found.
The majority of my week was spent looking into the history of a few New York counties, as well as references for the War of 1812 and the Revolutionary War. So this week’s finds are books available online and website on these subjects. But before I get into that, I did find an interesting article (posted on Facebook by Becky Jamison): “Lives of the dead come to life on tombstones.”
Revolutionary War
- New York in the Revolution as Colony and State: Volume 1 (via Internet Archive)
- New York in the Revolution as Colony and State: Volume 2 (via Internet Archive)
War of 1812
- History of the Late War Between the United States and Great Britain Comprising a Minute Account of the Various Military and Naval Operations (via Google Books)
- Sackets Harbor Battlefield Alliance (website)
- Index of Awards on Claims of the Soldiers of the War of 1812 [New York] (via Ancestry)
Jefferson County, NY
- Geographical Gazetteer of Jefferson County, N.Y., 1685-1890 (via Internet Archive)
- A History of the Jefferson County Region (website)
- Jefferson County Historical Society (website)
- Jefferson County Wiki (website/wiki)
- Adams, NY History and Genealogy (website)
- Jefferson County (website via USGenNet)
- Sackets Harbor History (website via 1000 Islands)
- A History of Jefferson County in the State of New York From the Earliest Period to the Present (via Google Books)
- Our County and Its People: A Descriptive Work on Jefferson County, New York (via Internet Archive)
- The Growth of a Century as Illustrated in the History of Jefferson County, New York from 1793-1894 (via Internet Archive)
Oneida County, NY
- Oneida County Historical Society (website)
- History of Oneida County, New York From 1700 to the Present Time: Volume 1 (via Internet Archive)
- History of Oneida County, New York From 1700 to the Present Time: Volume 2 (via Internet Archive)
- History of Oneida County, New York With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers (via Ancestry)
- Our County and Its People: A Descriptive Work on Oneida County, New York (via Internet Archive)
Cayuga County, NY
- History of Cayuga County, New York With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers (via Internet Archive)
- Cayuga County Historian’s Office (website)
- History of Cayuga County, New York (website)
- History of Auburn (via Internet Archive)
- Historical Records of a Hundred and Twenty Years Auburn, N.Y. (via Internet Archive)
New York
- Gazetteer of the State of New York (via Google Books)
- Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licenses Were Issued by the Secretary of the Province of New York, Previous to 1784 (via Google Books)
Julie, thanks for the link to Becky Jamison’s article. I can picture holographic movies popping up over tombstones as some future step, but it’s amazing that we already have this much.