Wayne Couny NY Links

Civil War Letters of Pvt. Manley Stacey of Co. D, 111th Infantry, a recruit from Lyons NY - this is a link to another site and will open in another window. Scroll down the right side for links to transcriptions of his 200+ individual letters, many mentioning local Wayne County soldiers who served with him. Be sure to click on each of the links at the top of this entry page to read more about Manley and the project: added 1/23/11

The Census of Pensioners for Military Service 1841 for Finger Lakes area: on Darwina's Finger Lakes Genealogy Page

Map of the Revolutionary War Military Tract: on the Seneca County NYGenWeb Site

War of 1812 site: - covers all aspects of this conflict, with battles, causes, weapons and people. Not specifically Wayne but Wayne men were active in this war.

Newspapers:

Fulton History: searchable database of Wayne County and other New York State historyical newspapers, many from the 19th century!

The Wayne Post : Check out what's happening in Wayne County today!

Times of Wayne County Online Newspaper: current county news

Maps:

1895 Atlas of the United States Project

1895 Wayne County, New York Map: same as above but go right to Wayne map

The Burned-Over District: with links to 1810, 1820, and 1830 census indices and maps

Map of Wayne County in 1830: with links to 1830 census index

Map of U.S. Migration Patterns

U.S. Territorial and Other Historical Maps

Central New York Towns Map

Migration, One of Our Favorite Topics:

US Bureau of Land Management General Land Office: database and image access to more than two million federal land title records for the Eastern Public Land States, issued between 1820 and 1908; indexed both by the Patentee or Warrantee; images of the original certificates

1870 Census Search, by the Library of Michigan

Michigan GENDIS - MI Death Index

Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales Records Search: about 260,000 land patent records

Early Roads and Migration Trails

Account of a Family Settling in Michigan

University of Kansas Searchable Database of Books and Articles: not just Kansas. State histories, memoirs, etc. of the Heartland, that can help trace people back to where they came from - "Back East". These searchable online volumes are an excellent resource, containing the names of a horde of New Yorkers, often giving a helpful, chronological list of their successive, farflung residences. Unfortunately, the NYS town and county are not always specified, so there may be short bios of many more Wayne County people whom one could find using a surname search.

Other Useful Sites:

The New York State Historical Literature Collection: browse and read over 600 rare historical books and pamphlets about New York State topics

NY State Off-line Sources

Central New York Genealogical Society:
"Tree Talks," their quarterly publication, contains abstracted material from 48 central NY counties, including Wayne. One issue each year contains an indexed transcription of an early NY County Census. There is also a Surname List of families members are researching.

NY State Archives

New York State Library's list of years of available NYS Census Records

NYS Newspaper Microfilm at the NYS Library

Newspaper Abstracts Project

Monroe County Early News: news articles from Monroe County newspapers; many articles about Wayne County residents.

SAMPUBCO: Will Testators Indexes, Naturalization Records Indexes and Census Indexes online. You can order copies of the original source documents for a fee. Read instructions carefully if using this service.

Obits Look-ups Volunteers: web site that allows people to volunteer for and request obituary lookups from all around the U.S., Canada, and internationally. The RootsWeb mailing list, OBIT-LOOKUPS-L, provides a way to make requests for locations that don't have volunteers listed on the web site.