Resources
GENEALOGY RESEARCH
Find A Grave
Millions of cemetery records
US GenWeb Project
Free Genealogy Resources
Genesee County GenWeb
Genesee County, NY Genealogy Resources
Orleans County GenWeb
Orleans County, NY Genealogy Resources
International African American Museum Center for Family History
The Freedmen’s Bureau
Established in 1865, the Bureau provided relief for displaced Southerners, including newly freed slaves.
How to Preserve Family Archives (papers and photographs)
New York State Military Museum and Veterans Outreach Center
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database
Munster Rolls of the New York Infantry Regiments During the Civil War
Genesee County Home Inmates
Residents of the Genesee County Home/ poor house in East Bethany, NY. (Genesee County History Department)
Record of Inmate Deaths in the County Home (Genesee County, NY)
Genesee County History Department
The Statue of Liberty – Ellis Island Foundation
Free passenger & ship search records.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
New York Heritage Digital Collections
Genesee County History Department
Genesee County Timeline 1779-2000 by Susan Conklin
Library of Congress Digital Collections
National Women’s History Museum
Smithsonian Women’s History Initiative
Smithsonian History and Culture
Women’s Suffrage Database from the Ontario County, NY Historical Society
National Museum of the American Latino