Welcome to the Wayne County Family Section! Here you'll find original articles and family submissions sent in by your fellow researchers, and links to personal genealogy websites. If you'd like to contribute similar items, please contact any one of the two co-coordinators listed on the front page of the site. Lists and Indexes of General InterestIndex to 1895 Cowles' Family Sketches List of Family Files at Palmyra Kings Daughters Library Table of Contents to "Rose Neighborhood Sketches" Ancestral Sightings - From NYS ResourcessNewspaper notices, brief bios, etc. spotted by your fellow researchers Ancestral Sightings - From Out-of-state ResourcesNewspaper notices, brief bios, etc. spotted by your fellow researchers Wayne County Families & BiosShort Biographies of Wayne County Residents Ontario County Residents, Wayne County Connections Chenango County Residents, Wayne County Connections Kent County MI Residents, Wayne County Connections Bruinix/ Goossen Family of Marion Autobiography of Luther Rice Delano A Bible Story: Samuel Dennis' Family Bible The Hon. Nelson Ferris: and Ferris family documents Tribute to Mrs. Sarah "Sally" Weeks Ferris Descendants of John Gage and Margaret Foster Assemblyman Marvin I. Greenwood The Family of William Griswold The Hathaway Family of Palmyra Pvt. James R. Hickey of Palmyra Historical Women Firsts of Wayne County Relations of Elihu Jones of Huron The Merrell Brothers in the Civil War Alvah M. and Robert L. Ostrander Ethel Raymer Poray's "Memories of Childhood" Rochester Politicians From Wayne County 1903 Ethel Raymer Poray's "Farm Life Before Electricity" History of the Sherman Family of Marion Menzo Smith, Civil War Soldier Tipling & Brown Family Bible Inscriptions Descendants of Isaac Christian Vought Obituaries of the Wykle Family Original Research ProjectsFrom Palmyra, NY to Palmyra, MI - Our Migrating Ancestors Family ReunionsPhoto of 1905 Feiock Family Reunion Photo of 1926 Feiock Family Reunion 1920 Heit Family Reunion Photo & List Wooden Family Reunion List ca. 1936 PhotographsFound Family Fotos Pt. 1: photographs of local people that you'd like to reunite with a descendant or are donating to a historical society Found Family Fotos Pt. 2: photographs of local people that you'd like to reunite with a descendant or are donating to a historical society Found Family Fotos Pt. 3: photographs of local people that you'd like to reunite with a descendant or are donating to a historical society Found Family Fotos Pt. 4: photographs of local people that you'd like to reunite with a descendant or are donating to a historical society Found Family Fotos Pt. 5: photographs of local people that you'd like to reunite with a descendant or are donating to a historical society Group Photo of Beadle Family of Lyons NY Group Photo of Butler Hendersons Contant / Farnsworth Family Photos Photos of Children and Descendants of Robert and Christiana Foote Jeffers Portrait of Elijah Sherman Mosher Portrait of Libby Rapp Brooks of Lyons Sherman/Case Family Treasures (photos of Bible records and quilts) Letters, Special Items and KeepsakesWar of 1812 Pension Records of Noah Austin James Duane Galloway Letter, Palmyra 1912 The Autograph Book of Julia T. Bancroft Gould Names from Irving Webster Crane's Day Book The Autograph Book of Lois Moseley 1837-1838 Letters from Amos Snyder of Red Creek Memorabilia of the Tipling Family ScrapbooksThe Scrapbook of John P. Chatterson Newspaper Clippings and Collected Family EphemeraDocuments Docket: small documents of historical interest The Coleman Clippings Part 1 - a collection of newspaper clippings about the Coleman Family and other families of Sodus and Newark The Coleman Clippings Part 2 - excerpts from the February 14, 1906 Arcadian Weekly Gazette The Coleman Clippings Part 3 - abstracts of Coleman Family legal documents & society notes Wills and Deeds1876 Probate Notice of Polly Veeder Some Photographers of Wayne County, as well as the Finger Lakes and Central New YorkDr. Major Albert Veeder, Psychic Photographer, Lyons NY Wayne County-Related Family History Web SitesIf your family history site has **predominantly** Wayne County NY content, and does not tax older computers, send us your URL and we'll take a look. Current listees - please let us know of changes in your website address. Researchers requesting that their sites be posted on this list must provide a working reciprocal link to our website before your site is linked from this one. Please take a moment to notify the site coordinators (front page of site) if a link doesn't work so we can remove it! All of these external sites will open in a new window or tab. Descendants of James Adams and Sarah Dunn following the line of James Adams of Wayne Co. New York : excellent discussion about migration Keith Armitage's ARMITAGE Family History Page: an early 19th Century Irish family of Seneca County NY and eastern Galen, Wayne County, NY. Daniel L. Ashton's Home Page: with genealogical information on the ASHTON and PRATT families. BAILLARGEON-OHMANN ANCESTORS: fabulous pictures of Lyons & Ohmann ancestry and more to come hopefully on Brundage & Hood 1895 Diary from Wolcott/Owasco/Phelps/Lyons NY: transcribed by Anne M. Cady Patrick Denning of Newark NY: he was a member of President Lincoln's Body Guard. Site of David Holcomb. DENNIS Family Genealogy: several generations lived in Zurich, Town of Arcadia, prior to moving to Michigan -- see the piece on Samuel Dennis's Bible -- and a few cousins, including Town of Rose Editor Frank Dennis, lived in Rose. Elwyn Frey's FREY Family in Arcadia Susan M. Gates Davis's Genealogy Page - The Gates-Nichols portion of the website has genealogy of the DeCAN, BRUZIJN/BERZINE and DeVOIST families who were all from Wayne County. Also included are a few Bruijsschaards. These families all emigrated from Zeeland in the Netherlands to Wayne County, New York, and some later moved on to OttawaCounty in Michigan. The Doyle's of Wayne County, NY: Dan says: I found your web site while looking for Sodus info on the web and thought you might like to see the link to my family tree site. I have not done much with it for a couple of years, because of work and family, but there is a lot of info from Sodus on it. My family immigrated to NY in the mid 1850's from Ireland and started farming here, my Dad was the last one to farm it on the family homestead on Boyd Rd. Mom and Dad sold the farm in 81 and have since passed away. My grandfather was on the board that built The Church of The Epiphany in Sodus nearly 80 years ago now. Sheila Hoffman's Central NY Area Families: including the Mead family from Wayne County Genealogy of Onias HOPKINS and his wife Sarah WILLIAMS; one family's story of moving to Michigan Kathy (SPARR) MOTT's Genealogy Page: family page of Volunteer Kathy Mott, including her Wayne County lines. A Biography of William VREDENBURGH Revolutionary War Veteran and Three Generations of His Descendants: excellent research by Larry Mark Vredenbugh. Links back to Larry's huge Vredenburgh Family site. This site is fantastic, including the Seelye and Converse families!
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