Welcome to the Wayne County, NY GenWeb page! The purpose of this site is to enhance family research by offering a variety of useful and vital historical resources. It should be noted that this page is the result of a lot of hard work by many volunteers located all over the United States. You can be sure that, no matter where one lives, each volunteer has a keen interest in Wayne County, so you can expect quality resources.
Wayne County GenWeb is a team project. There are three co-coordinators who plan, code, correspond and type; several contributing editors who do original projects and transcriptions and hunt down goodies; and a group of regular volunteers whose efforts are indispensable to the site's growth. There is always room for more to join our happy bunch.
Found throughout the Wayne County GenWeb site are many excellent items, such as:
- Cemetery lists - about 108 - and growing, and many with known genealogical connections annotated by volunteers.
- Queries page where you can add your own research problem(s).
- Gazetteer information for all of the Wayne County towns for different years.
- Historical accounts of towns and people once only accessed by those who visited the county.
- Old newspaper articles that enhance and provide a "snapshot" of what life was like in early times.
- Links to other informative and pertinent websites of county interest.
- A list of Wayne County resources and places that you can contact for more information, legal documents, wills, maps, and etc.
- The unusual and unexpected - rare lists, original articles and books, and original projects and features created by Team Wayne.
This site is updated periodically, so be sure to see what's new in the "What's New" section that is located under the "Historical Articles" button. As well, anyone wishing to volunteer his or her services, for one assignment or several, we need you. Services most needed are producing documents (typing) that can be emailed back to the co-coordinators and looking for Wayne County material in out-of-state libraries. So, whether you have old articles or family items you wish to contribute, or if you wish to be assigned something to type, or would like to type something that might be pertinent to your own ancestors' stay in Wayne, please contact any one of the co-coordinators.
Please bookmark this page and return often. You never know what you might find here -and we never know what we'll receive to offer you! Also, if you have found an ancestor on this page, please tell us about it. This is a volunteer project and our reward is knowing we've helped our fellow Wayne County researchers. Comments and/or suggestions, of course, are always welcome, as are thank-yous to the volunteers.
Thank you for visiting the Wayne County, NY GenWeb page. And, good luck in your search.
Wayne County, NY USGenWeb Co-Coordinators:
Margaret Sherman Lutzvick
Martha Perry Magill
Allyn Hess Perry