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=== Collection Description === | === Collection Description === | ||
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The '''Daniel A. Reed Library of the State University of New York at Fredonia''' has indexes to, and most of the original patents (first deeds) showing the transfer of land ownership between 1801 and 1840 from the [[New_York_Land_and_Property#Land_Companies|Holland Land Company]] to private individuals in western New York and Pennsylvania. Some names on the patents could be fictitious.<ref>William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 83. {{WorldCat|39493985}}; {{FHL|728550|item|disp= | The '''Daniel A. Reed Library of the State University of New York at Fredonia''' has indexes to, and most of the original patents (first deeds) showing the transfer of land ownership between 1801 and 1840 from the [[New_York_Land_and_Property#Land_Companies|Holland Land Company]] to private individuals in western New York and Pennsylvania. Some names on the patents could be fictitious.<ref>William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 83. {{WorldCat|39493985}}; {{FHL|728550|item|disp=FS Library Ref Book 973 J54d}}.</ref> | ||
The Local History Collections are mostly focused on Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties of New York, but also include some material from surrounding New York and Pennsylvania counties. They hold books, pamphlets, serials, manuscripts, audio-visual materials, maps and atlases, and microforms, including censuses, vital records, local newspapers abstracts, cemetery transcirpts, church records, manuscripts, county histories, newspapers (on microfilm), and reference files.<ref>[http://www.fredonia.edu/library/collections/archives/localhistory.asp Local History] in ''Fredonia State University of New York'' (accessed 3 May 2016).</ref><br><br> | The Local History Collections are mostly focused on Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties of New York, but also include some material from surrounding New York and Pennsylvania counties. They hold books, pamphlets, serials, manuscripts, audio-visual materials, maps and atlases, and microforms, including censuses, vital records, local newspapers abstracts, cemetery transcirpts, church records, manuscripts, county histories, newspapers (on microfilm), and reference files.<ref>[http://www.fredonia.edu/library/collections/archives/localhistory.asp Local History] in ''Fredonia State University of New York'' (accessed 3 May 2016).</ref><br><br> | ||
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*[[Buffalo and Erie County Public Library]] has a good collection with good indexes including biographies, family folders, county and local histories for all of New York, and [[New_York_Land_and_Property#Land_Companies|Holland Land Company]] deeds.</ref> | *[[Buffalo and Erie County Public Library]] has a good collection with good indexes including biographies, family folders, county and local histories for all of New York, and [[New_York_Land_and_Property#Land_Companies|Holland Land Company]] deeds.</ref> | ||
*[[Library of Congress]], Washington, DC, the [[New_York_Land_and_Property#Land_Companies|Holland Land Company]] deeds are part of the world's largest library including 50,000 genealogies, 100,000 local histories, and collections of manuscripts, microfilms, maps, newspapers, photographs, and published material, strong in North American, British Isles, and German sources.<ref name=DB4>William Dollarhide, and Ronald A. Bremer, ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, UT: Heritage Quest, 1988), 4. {{WorldCat|39493985}}; {{FHL|728550|item|disp= | *[[Library of Congress]], Washington, DC, the [[New_York_Land_and_Property#Land_Companies|Holland Land Company]] deeds are part of the world's largest library including 50,000 genealogies, 100,000 local histories, and collections of manuscripts, microfilms, maps, newspapers, photographs, and published material, strong in North American, British Isles, and German sources.<ref name=DB4>William Dollarhide, and Ronald A. Bremer, ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, UT: Heritage Quest, 1988), 4. {{WorldCat|39493985}}; {{FHL|728550|item|disp=FS Library Book 973 J54d}}.</ref> | ||
*[[National Archives at New York City]], has [[New_York_Land_and_Property#Land_Companies|Holland Land Company]] deeds, federal censuses, Ancestry.com, military, pensions, bounty land, photos, passenger indexes, port of NYC records, naturalizations, inventions.<ref name=DB125>Dollarhide and Bremer, 125-26.</ref> | *[[National Archives at New York City]], has [[New_York_Land_and_Property#Land_Companies|Holland Land Company]] deeds, federal censuses, Ancestry.com, military, pensions, bounty land, photos, passenger indexes, port of NYC records, naturalizations, inventions.<ref name=DB125>Dollarhide and Bremer, 125-26.</ref> | ||
*[[New York Public Library]] Genealogy Division in Manhattan has an outstanding collection of American history at national, state and local levels; international genealogy and heraldry in Roman alphabets; Dorot Jewish collection; photos; New York censuses, directories, and vital records.<ref name="Milstein">[http://www.nypl.org/locations/schwarzman/milstein-division-us-history-local-history-genealogy Irma and Paul Milstein Division of U.S. History, Local History and Genealogy] in ''New York Public Library'' (accessed 16 October 2010).</ref> They also have the [[New_York_Land_and_Property#Land_Companies|Holland Land Company]] deeds. | *[[New York Public Library]] Genealogy Division in Manhattan has an outstanding collection of American history at national, state and local levels; international genealogy and heraldry in Roman alphabets; Dorot Jewish collection; photos; New York censuses, directories, and vital records.<ref name="Milstein">[http://www.nypl.org/locations/schwarzman/milstein-division-us-history-local-history-genealogy Irma and Paul Milstein Division of U.S. History, Local History and Genealogy] in ''New York Public Library'' (accessed 16 October 2010).</ref> They also have the [[New_York_Land_and_Property#Land_Companies|Holland Land Company]] deeds. | ||
*[[New York State Archives]], Albany, has manuscripts, vital record indexes, [[New_York_Land_and_Property#Land_Companies|Holland Land Company]] deeds, maps, military, court, alien depositions, prisoners, Erie Canal passenger lists, wills, estates, and state censuses. | *[[New York State Archives]], Albany, has manuscripts, vital record indexes, [[New_York_Land_and_Property#Land_Companies|Holland Land Company]] deeds, maps, military, court, alien depositions, prisoners, Erie Canal passenger lists, wills, estates, and state censuses. | ||
*[[Stadsarchief Amsterdam]] (Amsterdam Municipal Archives in the Netherlands) Some of the earliest New York City ([[New Netherland|New Netherland]]) records are also stored here. Also, the earliest European New York settlers often lived in Amsterdam before their move to the New World.<ref>Gwenn F. Epperson, ''New Netherland Roots'' (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub., 1994), 37-43. {{WorldCat|29980509}}; {{FHL|651271|item|disp= | *[[Stadsarchief Amsterdam]] (Amsterdam Municipal Archives in the Netherlands) Some of the earliest New York City ([[New Netherland|New Netherland]]) records are also stored here. Also, the earliest European New York settlers often lived in Amsterdam before their move to the New World.<ref>Gwenn F. Epperson, ''New Netherland Roots'' (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub., 1994), 37-43. {{WorldCat|29980509}}; {{FHL|651271|item|disp=FS Library Book 974.7 D27e}}.</ref> Includes the [[New_York_Land_and_Property#Land_Companies|Holland Land Company]] 1801-1840 deeds from western New York state, and northwestern Pennsylvania.<ref name="HLC">[http://www.fredonia.edu/library/collections/archives/holland.asp Holland Land Company] in ''SUNY Fredonia'' (accessed 22 November 2013).</ref> | ||
'''''Similar Collections'''''<br> | '''''Similar Collections'''''<br> | ||
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'''''Neighboring Collections'''''<br> | '''''Neighboring Collections'''''<br> | ||
*[http://chautauqua.ny.us/168/County-Clerk Chautauqua County Clerk], Mayville, deeds, marriages 1908-1935, censuses 1825-1925, and military discharges. (Town clerks have births and deaths)<ref>''Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 9th ed''. (Logan, Utah: Everton Pub., 1999), 282. {{WorldCat|812163213}}; {{FHL|740321|item|disp= | *[http://chautauqua.ny.us/168/County-Clerk Chautauqua County Clerk], Mayville, deeds, marriages 1908-1935, censuses 1825-1925, and military discharges. (Town clerks have births and deaths)<ref>''Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 9th ed''. (Logan, Utah: Everton Pub., 1999), 282. {{WorldCat|812163213}}; {{FHL|740321|item|disp=FS Library Book 973 D27e 1999}}.</ref> | ||
*[http://chautauqua.ny.us/170/County-Historian Chautauqua County Historian], Mayville, earliest legal and court records dating from 1811. | *[http://chautauqua.ny.us/170/County-Historian Chautauqua County Historian], Mayville, earliest legal and court records dating from 1811. | ||
*[https://www.nycourts.gov/courts/8jd/Chautauqua/surrogates.shtml Chautauqua County Surrogates Court 8th JD], Maysville, wills and probate records. | *[https://www.nycourts.gov/courts/8jd/Chautauqua/surrogates.shtml Chautauqua County Surrogates Court 8th JD], Maysville, wills and probate records. | ||
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