This guide for Chautauqua County contains a detailed list of resources for those researching families that lived there. The guide includes a map of municipalities, a brief county history, as well as links to county, local and regional repositories, resources, and societies. A selected bibliography is also available, along with other links that researchers will find highly valuable.
Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase of Western New York
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Written by O. Turner in 1850, this text surveys major events in the history of Western New York, with remarks on the ancient “remains” in the region, the life and culture of the Seneca Iroquois, the Dutch colonization, the War of 1812 and, finally, the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825. Broken...