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Chautauqua
County Court House
Mayville, NY 14757
(County Clerk's Office) Hours: Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm (8:30-4:30, June-Aug) Phone: (716) 753-4331 |
Chautauqua County records from 1811 to
date: land, tax, articles of incorporation, veterans,
naturalization, Surrogate's Office (wills), census from
1825-1925, marriages from 1908-1935 and many unique
maps. Copying is available. County Clerk's Office 1 North Erie Street, P.O. Box 170 Mayville, NY 14757-0170 (Click here for holdings. ) |
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Chautauqua County Genealogical Society
P.O. Box 404 Fredonia, NY 14063 Barker Museum hours: Tues - Sat 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Tues & Thurs evenings 7-9 pm |
A non profit organized, founded in 1977
to promote genealogical research relating to Chautauqua
and adjoining counties in New York and northwestern
Pennsylvania. Our collection of Family Histories and research materials is located at: Darwin R. Barker Museum 7 Day Street Fredonia New York. Send S.A.S.E. to receive further information and a Membership Application Form. (Click here for holdings) |
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Chautauqua
Institution Smith Memorial Library 21 Miller Ave. P.O. Box 1093 Chautauqua, NY 14722 Phone: (716) 357-6332/6306 Fax: (716) 357-9014 Hours: 9-week summer season: Mon-Sat, 9am-5pm; Sun, 2-4pm Off season: Mon, Wed, Fri: 9:30am-5pm Sat 9:30am-lpm |
Collections include various newspapers
from 1876 to the present, scrapbooks, diaries, autograph
books, oral history tapes, video and lecture tapes,
photographs, dissertations, historic register of homes,
and histories of other Chautauquas. Copying is available |
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Fenton History Center
67 Washington St. Jamestown, NY 14701 Phone: (716) 664-6256 Fax: (716) 483-7524 Hours: 10am-4pm, Mon-Sat (appointments suggested for Archives and Photographs) |
Collections concentrate on Jamestown and
southern Chautauqua County, but cover all of the county
and include family history files, a card file for deaths
and marriages from 19th century newspapers, printed
family genealogies, county census records and indexes,
Jamestown city directories, plus manuscript and
photograph collections. Admission fee. Copying is available. |
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Patterson Library
40 South Portage Street Westfield, NY
14787
Phone: (716) 326-2154 Fax: (716) 326-2554 Hours: Winter (Sept 6 - June 15): Mon, Tues, Thurs, 9am-8pm Wed, Fri, Sat, 9am-5pm Summer (June 16 - Sept 5): Tues, Thurs 9am-5pm Mon, Wed, Fri, 9am-8pm Sat, 9am-1pm |
Collections include the Westfield
Republican from 1855 and other newspapers,
state/county/local histories, Holland Land Company
records, DAR lineage books, clipping and reference
files, family histories, surname and obituary files,
county cemetery records, county census records, maps and
atlases. Copying is available. |
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Reed
Library
SUNY College at Fredonia Fredonia, NY 14063 Phone: (716) 673-3183 Fax: (716) 673-3185 Hours: School year: Mon-Fri, 1-5pm Summer: Mon-Fri, l-4pm |
The local history collection includes
materials relating to Chautauqua and Cattaraugus
Counties, especially U.S. census records (complete
through 1840, then local only), NYS census for
Chautauqua and Cattaraugus Cos, Seneca Indians,
county/local histories/directories, supervisor's
reports, family history records, newspapers. The Archives of the Holland Land Company offer insights into the settlement and development of Western New York. There are extensive Seneca Nation records there, and the librarian, Jack Ericson, is a Seneca genealogy expert. Copying is available. |
