December 1999

Field's Cornet Band, 1896 - Town of Wolcott - Townships Section; - more memories of Verna

Christmas Lane Memories - Town of Wolcott - Townships Section; - more memories of Verna

The Courtin' of Brom Kimpling & Lib Thacker - Town of Wolcott - Townships Section; more memories of Verna

Grip's Historical Souvenir of Wolcott, N.Y. 1905, Pages 1 - 11 - Town of Wolcott - Townships Section; loaded with early general county and Military Tract history! Enjoy!

Memorabilia of the Tipling Family of Galen - Town of Galen - Townships Section

November 1999

Pleasant View Cemetery - Town of Williamson - Cemeteries Section

Men of All Wars Buried in Butler Center Church Cemetery - Townships Section, Town of Butler Page

Index to War of 1812 Reimbursement Claims, Part 1: Arcadia, Galen, Lyons, Palmyra; updated 11/15 with Butler, Huron, Macedon, Marion, and Ontario - Historical Articles Section, under Military

Index to War of 1812 Reimbursement Claims, Part 2: Rose, Savannah, Sodus, Williamson, Wolcott; updated 11/11 with Savannah; updated 11/15 with Walworth - Historical Articles Section, under Military

Rose Cemetery Master Index - Surnames P - Z (Bill Dean's Reading): Town of Rose - Cemeteries Section

The Autograph Book of Julia T. Bancroft Gould: Town of Walworth - Townships Section

Rose Cemetery Master Index - Surnames L - O (Bill Dean's Reading): Town of Rose - Cemeteries Section

Index to War of 1812 Reimbursement Claims: Rose, Savannah, Sodus, Williamson, Wolcott; updated 11/11 with Savannah listings - Historical Articles Section, under Military

Rose Cemetery Master Index - Surnames G - K (Bill Dean's Reading): Town of Rose - Cemeteries Section

Index to the Scrapbook of John P. Chatterson, in 4 parts: Townships Section, Town of Rose

Marriages, Births and Deaths in Rose During 1895 and 1896: Townships Section, Town of Rose

1848 Letter of Seth Smith: Historical Articles Section, listed in "Documents Docket"

Rose Cemetery Master Index - Surnames Co - F (Bill Dean's Reading): Town of Rose - Cemeteries Section

Rose Cemetery Master Index - Surnames A - Cl (Bill Dean's Reading): Town of Rose - Cemeteries Section

October 1999

Tribute to Richard Ferris: Historical Articles Section

Ferris Family Obits : Wayne Co. Obits, Part 2 - Historical Articles Section

Lovejoy Cemetery - Bill Dean's Reading: Town of Rose - Cemeteries Section

Ellinwood Cemetery - Bill Dean's Reading: Town of Rose - Cemeteries Section

Collins Cemetery - Bill Dean's Reading: Town of Rose - Cemeteries Section

North Rose Cemetery - Bill Dean's Reading: Town of Rose - Cemeteries Section

Tribute to Mrs. Sarah "Sally" Weeks Ferris

Obit and photo of Hon. Nelson Ferris and other Ferris documents: Historical Articles Section, Under Wayne County Families

Civil War Pension Witnesses of Wayne County Residents: Historical Articles Section, Under Military

Index to Butler Center Methodist Church Record Book (1856-78): Historical Articles Section, Under Church Records

Miscellaneous Small Cemeteries: Town of Sodus - Cemeteries Section

Old Quaker Cemetery at Marengo: Town of Galen - Cemeteries Section

Ancestral Sightings, Part 4 - Historical Articles Section

South Sodus Cemetery: Town of Sodus - Cemeteries Section

Index to War of 1812 Reimbursement Claims: Arcadia, Galen, Lyons, Palmyra - Historical Articles Section, under Military

Index to War of 1812 Reimbursement Claims: Rose, Sodus, Williamson, Wolcott - Historical Articles Section, under Military

September 1999

Tipling and Brown Family Bible Transcriptions: Townships Section, under Galen

Earliest Land Contracts of the Old Town of Wolcott, 1808 - 1813: Townships Section, under Wolcott

Members of Wolcott Women's Organizations, 1905: Townships Section, under Wolcott

1900 Residents of the Wayne County Poorhouse: Historical Articles Section; because this file is pre-formatted, to accommodate small monitors we've coded it to throw a new browser window. After viewing the file, use the old window to continue browsing through the site.

Wayne County Ministers Project: Historical Articles Section; updated 9/11 with many Wolcott ministers.

Meet Verna: the long-anticipated and first of many articles written by Verna Richards Shinebarger Seidel, 101 years old, and resident of Wolcott, N.Y.

Verna's grandson, Frank Patterson, will be showing her each of these pages as they go on line. It's her wish that her memories and writing will be enjoyed by people who came from or whose relatives lived in or now live in Wolcott. If you'd like to send Verna a message, thank you, or belated 101st birthday greeting, please do and send to Frank at his email address. He'll be printing them off for her so that she can read them. If your family lived in Wolcott in the early days of the 20th century please tell her. It'll mean a lot to her that her work of many years has now reached an appreciative audience.

Furnaceville Cemetery - A Larger Reading: Town of Ontario - Cemeteries Section; complete cemetery, list now doubled in size

August 1999

1854-55 Wayne County Members of the Baptist Union for Ministerial Education - Historical Articles Section

Holbrooks, Ferris or Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery: Town of Savannah - Cemeteries Section

Wayne County Census Partials - Historical Articles Section

Furnaceville Cemetery - A Larger Reading: Town of Ontario - Cemeteries Section

Southwick Cemetery: Seneca County's Town of Junius, just south of Wayne County border - Cemeteries Section

July 1999

St. John's Catholic Cemetery: near village of Clyde, Town of Galen - Cemeteries Section

Ancestral Sightings, Part 3 - Historical Articles Section

Ancestral Sightings, Part 2 - Historical Articles Section

Wayne County Census Partials - Historical Articles Section

A Fish Story - Co-coordinator Marge Solves An Old Family Mystery! Cemeteries Section

Small Savannah Cemeteries: Harwood-Sprague, Crusoe Island (Old Evans, Farrand), New Evans, Wilsey Farm, Harrington, Wilson Farm, John Jackson (Allen), Olmstead Road Single Burial

Introducing Town of Rose Editor, Frank Dennis! - Townships Section

Wayne County Deaths 1848 Part 3, Towns of Galen, Lyons, Ontario and Marion - Historical Articles Section; Ontario and Marion added 7/13

1916 Graduating Class of Newark High School - Townships Section; updated with faculty and businesses, with class poem and description of G.A.R. parade

Furnaceville Cemetery, Town of Ontario - Partial Reading - Cemeteries Section; added 7/12 (a full list has been acquired, 11 pages long, and will be posted on this site in August or September)

Ancestral Sightings - Historical Articles Section; updated 7/1

June 1999

Lost Stones" of Sodus Rural Cemetery - Cemeteries Section

Early Wayne County Justices of the Peace - Historical Articles Section

Early Sodus Postmasters and Mail Stages - Townships Section, Town of Sodus

History, Reminiscences, Anecdotes and Legends of Great Sodus Bay, Sodus Point, Sloop Landing, Sodus Village, Pultneyville, Maxwell - Townships Section, Town of Sodus

Early Wayne County Settlers and Their Rhineland Origins - Historical Articles Section

Zurich Cemetery, Town of Arcadia - Cemeteries Section

East Williamson Cemetery, Town of Williamson - Cemeteries Section

Small Cemeteries, Town of Williamson - Cemeteries Section: Fish and Reformed Church Cemeteries; Quaker (or VanHolde) Cemetery

Sodus Rural Cemetery - Original List - A - G: Village of Sodus

Sodus Rural Cemetery - Original List - H - M: Village of Sodus

Sodus Rural Cemetery - Original List - N - Z: Village of Sodus

Note: The "Additions to Sodus Rural Cemetery" are extra names that volunteer and Sodus resident Nancy Nevelizer took down when she walked this cemetery in 1998. The 3 files listed above are from the original list of readings at the Office of the County Historian. Nancy's additions add up to many more burials than the original list. We will soon post a third supplementary list of "lost stones". We'd all like to extend our appreciation to Nancy for the many hours she put into creating a resource that will aid Wayne County researchers for many years to come.

Sodus Rural Cemetery - Additions - A - G: Village of Sodus

Sodus Rural Cemetery - Additions - H - M: Village of Sodus

Sodus Rural Cemetery - Additions - N - R: Village of Sodus

Sodus Rural Cemetery - Additions - S - Z: Village of Sodus

1905 Census Index of the Town of Arcadia Custodial Asylum, Village of Newark - Historical Articles Section

Small Cemeteries, Town of Williamson - Cemeteries Section: Fish and Reformed Church Cemeteries

Sodus, N.Y. Photo Album - Townships Section

Arcadia & Newark, N.Y. Photo Album - Township of Arcadia Section: new postcard of early night scene of downtown Newark

The Wykle Family of Galen - obituaries, genealogical information, and early photos of the extended Wykle Family of Galen; a work in progress by new researcher Kathleen Simmons

Elmwood Cemetery, Town of Lyons - Cemeteries Section

Lakeside Cemetery, Town of Ontario - Cemeteries Section

May 1999

Galen & Clyde, N.Y. Photo Album - Town of Galen Section: added

Butler-Savannah Cemetery, Town of Savannah, 3-part Alphabetical Version - Cemeteries Section

Arcadia & Newark, N.Y. Photo Album - Townships Section: new photos of St. Mark's Epis. Church and Birthplace of Spiritualism

Joy Cemetery, Town of Sodus - Cemeteries Section

Ferguson Cemetery, Town of Galen - Cemeteries Section

Residents of the Wayne County Poorhouse: 1860 - Historical Articles Section

Butler-Savannah Cemetery, Town of Savannah - Cemeteries Section

White Schoolhouse Cemetery, Town of Galen - Cemeteries Section

Pensioners of the Revolutionary War Residing in Wayne County, 1840 - Historical Articles Section

Arcadia & Newark, N.Y. Photo Album - Townships Section

Gould Cemetery, Town of Walworth - Cemeteries Section

Lyons, N.Y. 1911, Pt. 2 - Townships Section: the final thirteen photos

Walworth Village Cemetery, Town of Walworth - Cemeteries Section

Men From Rose Who Served in the Civil War - Historical Articles Section

April 1999

Town of Butler Photo Album - Townships Section

Centenary Cemetery, Town of Sodus - Cemeteries Section

Briggs (Hunt's Corners) and Romeyn (Ingersoll) Cemeteries, Town of Galen - Cemeteries Section

Lyons, N.Y. 1911 - Townships Section: thirteen more early photos at end of Part 2

Lyons, N.Y. 1911 - Townships Section: ten more early photos at end of Part 2

Civil War Diary of Eugene Parkhill of Williamson 1864 -1865 - Historical Articles Section: entries for Aug. 18, 1864 through Sept. 5, 1864

Baker Cemetery, Town of Walworth - Cemeteries Section

West Walworth Cemetery, Town of Walworth - Cemeteries Section

Town of Butler Supervisors - Townships Section

Lyons, N.Y. 1911 - Townships Section: sixteen more early photos at end of Part 2

Sodus Village Old Cemetery, Town of Sodus - Cemeteries Section

Baker Cemetery, Town of Walworth - Cemeteries Section

Lyons, N.Y. 1911 - a short book about business and businessmen - Townships Section: inc. nice old photos

1926 Feiock Family Reunion Photo - Historical Articles Section

Our Out-of-State Ancestral Sightings section is working! Mary Riley benefited from the reporting of the burial notice of Wayne Co. resident Rebecca Nichols, who died while staying with her daughter in Indiana in 1853. Keep sending in your sightings of Wayne County residents from out-of-state books, articles, and lists. You might be next to benefit from another researcher's watchfulness.

Civil War Diary of Eugene Parkhill of Williamson 1864 -1865 - Historical Articles Section

Introduction to the Wayne County Online Census Project - Historical Articles Section

Civil War Soldiers of the Town of Macedon - Historical Articles Section

The Brick Church Cemetery, Sodus Center, Part 3 - Cemeteries Section

March 1999

The Brick Church Cemetery, Sodus Center, Part 2 - Cemeteries Section: updated 3/27; scroll about halfway down, starting with George D. Calef

More Ancestral Sightings, Out of State, Part 2 - Historical Articles Section, under Families heading

Walworth Freewill Cemetery, Town of Walworth - Cemeteries Section

Index to Historical and Obituaries Scrapbooks of Sodus: Historical Articles Section under Vital Records heading

Wayne County Deaths 1850, Town of Sodus (no others available) - Historical Articles Section

Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Town of Lyons - Cemeteries Section

Rhea (Cuddeback or West) Cemetery, Town of Phelps, Ontario County - Cemeteries Section

South Lyons Cemetery, Town of Lyons - Cemeteries Section

South Butler Methodist Church Pastors, 1879 - 1981 - Historical Articles Section

The Brick Church Cemetery, Sodus Center, Part 2 - Cemeteries Section

Wayne County Ministers Project - Historical Articles Section: further info about M.E. and Baptist ministers added

Fairmount Cemetery, Red Creek, Town of Wolcott - Cemeteries Section

History of the Town of Rose - Townships Section

The Brick Church Cemetery, Sodus Center, Part 1 - Cemeteries Section

St. John's Episcopal Cemetery, Village of Sodus - Cemeteries Section

Small Cemeteries of Sodus - updated with Wickham, Sauer-Russel (Sawyer) and Swales Cemeteries - Cemeteries Section: updated

February 1999

1886-1887 Directory of the Village of Lyons, Town of Lyons, Part 4, Surnames "S" through "Z" - Townships Section

Autograph Book of Lois Moseley 1837-1838 - Historical Articles Section

Wayne County NY Naturalizations of the 1830s - Historical Articles Section

Meet Leola Crane Sutton, new editor of the Town of Butler Section - in Townships Section

1886-1887 Directory of the Village of Lyons, Town of Lyons, Part 3, Surnames "Me" through "R" - Townships Section

History of the Town of Marion - Townships Section

Index to the Eleventh Census of the United States, June 1890, Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Widows; in 3 parts - Historical Articles Section

1886-1887 Directory of the Village of Lyons, Town of Lyons, Part 2, Surnames "F" through "Ma" - Townships Section

Small Cemeteries of Sodus; Lefurgey, Johnson, Kitchen, Lake Shore, Sodus Point - Cemeteries Section

Westbury and Center Cemeteries, Butler - Cemeteries Section

Welcome to Patti Norton, new editor of the Town of Galen Section

1886-1887 Directory of the Village of Lyons, Town of Lyons, Part 1, Surnames "A" through "E" - Townships Section

Names Index to the 1904 Plat Map of the Town of Butler - Townships Section

January 1999

Three Cemeteries of Walworth - Arnold Farm, Finley, Finley Schoolhouse (Lusk) - Cemeteries Section

Site Update- Cemeteries now listed by township

St. Ann's Cemetery, Palmyra - in Cemeteries Section: full listings replace partial listing

Names Index to the 1874 Map of the Town of Butler- Townships Section

Butler Center Methodist Church Marriages, 1856 - 1914 - Historical Articles Section

Names Index to the 1874 Map of the Town of Savannah - Townships Section

Attendees at Heit Family Picnic, 1920 Galen - Historical Articles Section

Maple Grove Cemetery Part 1, Town of Galen - Cemeteries Section

Butler Center Methodist Church Pastors, 1856 - 1915 - Historical Articles Section

Documents Docket - in Historical Articles Section

Palmyra Village Cemetery, Palmyra - Cemeteries Section

Wayne County Ministers Project - Historical Articles Section: updated with all ministers found in our cemeteries lists

Dickinson Cemetery, Town of Ontario - Cemeteries Section

Site Update - Ancestral Sightings split into two sections

Vanmarter Cemetery Update - Cemeteries Section

Revolutionary War Balloters of Galen, Township 27 of the Military Tract - Historical Articles Section

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