Links to other genealogy related pages.

The links with a dark blue graphic shaped like Monroe County are on this website.

GenWeb of Monroe Co., NY homepage.
Rochester Genealogical Society homepage.
Dick's Genealogy & History Corner is a blog with local aids and opinions.

Rochester Regional links

• Vital Records
• Assorted Vital Records from Monroe Co., NY on this site.
• Life Records. Search recent vital records from Rochester newspapers.
• County Records, Monroe County, New York from Linda H. Gutiérrez
• Index to Marriages in Rochester; 1876 - 1943
• Brockport Births appearing in Brockport newspapers from 1925-1953. Indexed by Donald P. Specht. (PDF file)
• Brockport Marriages appearing in the Brockport Republic newspaper from 1856-1917. Indexed by Arnold Schockow. (PDF file)
• Brockport Marriages appearing in Brockport newspapers from 1925-1953. Indexed by Donald P. Specht. (PDF file)
• Brockport Deaths appearing in the Brockport Republic newspaper from 1856-1925. Indexed by Arnold Schockow. (PDF file)
• Brockport Deaths appearing in Brockport newspapers from 1925-1953. Indexed by Donald P. Specht. (PDF file)
• Purchase a copy of a Monroe County Will (1821 - 1904) from Sampubco for a reasonable cost.
• Marriages extracted from the 1865 NY State Census of Rochester, NY.
• Marriages extracted from the 1865 NY State Census for the rest of Monroe County.
• Deaths extracted from the 1865 NY State Census of Rochester, NT.
• Deaths extracted from the 1865 NY Census for the rest of Monroe County.
• Deaths extracted from the 1875 NY State Census for the Towns of Monroe County.
• Marriages extracted from the 1875 NY State Census of Monroe County.
  
  
• Religious Records
• Religious Congregations of Rochester, NY formed before 1900.
• Rochester Genealogical Society's Collection of Church Records.
• Baptist
• First German Baptist Church
• Webster Baptist
• Episcopal
• The Episcopal Church of St. Luke & St. Simon Cyrene
• St. Paul's Episcopal Church
• St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
• All Saint's Episcopal Church
• All Saint's Mission
• Church Extension Society
• Ephphatha Episcopal Mission to the Deaf
• Church of the Good Shephard
• Inventory Of The Church Archives Of New York State
• St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
• St. Clement's Episcopal Church
• St. James' Episcopal Church
• St. Mary's Episcopal Mission
• St. Matthew's Episcopal Church
• Index of Episcopal Church Records; 1820 - 1851
• Lutheran
• Bethlehem Lutheran Church
• Christ Lutheran Church
• Christ the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
• Grace Lutheran Church
• St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church
• St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church
• Lutheran Concordia Church
• Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word
• Zion Lutheran Church
• Immanuel Lutheran
• St. John's Lutheran Church
• Lakeside Presbyterian Church
• Parkminster Presbyterian Church
• Third Presbyterian Church
• Reformed
• Brighton Reformed Church
• United Church of Christ
• Salem United Church of Christ
• St Paul's United Church of Christ
• Trinity United Church of Christ
• Emanuel Evangelical and Reformed
• United Methodist
• Penfield United Methodist Church
• Rush United Methodist Church
• Wesley United Methodist Church
• Rochester Churches Indexing Project. An on going project to index area church records.
• Early Religious records of Monroe County in a collection at Cornell University.
• Rochester Catholic Diocese.
• Presbytery of Genesee Valley; ie. Presbyterian Churches of this region.
• Records of the Brick Presbyterian Church (now Downtown United Pres. Church, Rochester.
  
  
• Census Records
• 1790 Census for Ontario Co., NY (which includes most of western NY).
• Six index pages of the 1830 Census on the Vital Record Page.
• Index of 1892 Census of Ogden, NY. Indexed by Donald Specht. (PDF file)
• Cemeteries
• Cemeteries of Monroe Co., NY and links to many cemetery records.
• Pictures of Monroe County tombstones from New York Gravestones.
• Riverside and Mt. Hope Cemeteries.
• Searchable records for Mt. Hope and Riverside Cemeteries.
• Friends of Mt. Hope Cemetery. A group that helps preserve Rochester's large public cemetery.
• Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. Over 200,000 burials of Catholics from Monroe County from 1871 to the present.
• Burials in Garland Cemetery, Clarkson, NY by Donald Specht. (PDF file)
• People buried in Ogden, NY cemeteries by Donald Specht. (PDF file)
• Addendum to Persons Buried in Ogden by Donald Specht. (PDF file)
• Parma Union Cemetery. Names from the official burial records (under the database tab).
• Search the burial records of Creekside Cemetery and last few years of burials in St. Vincent De Paul's Roman Catholic Church Cemetery in Churchville, NY.
• Webster Union Cemetery.
  
  
• Newspapers - old and current
• Newspapers of Monroe County including information on obtaining them through Inter-Library Loan.
• Available issues of the Rural New Yorker Newspaper.
• Fulton History has Rochester newspapers; 1825 - 1849 and 1862 - 1948 and also some suburban newspapers.
• NYS Historic Newspapers has newspaper from all across NY State.
• Rochester Newspaper Index; 1818 - 1897.
• Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
• Current obits. Also search obits for the past few months.
• The Catholic Courier.
• West Side News - marriages and death notices from 2011 to present can be found by a search. Death notices from Nov. 2000 - 2010 are found on their archive page.
• Obits from the Daily Messenger suburban newspapers.
  
  
• Pictures and postcards
• Rochester Images from the Rochester Public Library, Rochester Museum & Science Center, and Rochester Municipal Archives. (over 3000 images)
• Pictures of Rochester and Monroe County. Postcards and pictures of points of interest in Monroe County, NY.
• Photos of all the Rochester (Catholic Diocese) Churches. This includes churches in Monroe County and surrounding counties that are part of the Diocese of Rochester.
• Photographers of Rochester; 1861 - 1946. Can be used to determine when a photo was taken.
  
  
• Local Military Regiments and Patriotic Organizations
• Rochester Chapter of The Empire State Society, Sons of the American Revolution. They also are beginning to post pictures of the graves of Revolutionary War Veterans.
• Irondequoit Chapter - DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) is a patriotic organization for ladies with Revolutionary War ancestors. The site also has a list of this chapter's Rev. War ancestors.
• Co. A, 8^th NY Cavalry roster from the Civil War.
• Civil War Roster for all of Monroe County extracted by Linda H. Gutiérrez from the 1872 History of Monroe Co.
• World War II Masterfile (from RPL).
• World War II and Korean War Casualties.
• Monroe Co. military deaths during WWII
• Monroe Co. Casualties in the Korean War.
• Monroe Co. Casualties in the Vietnam War.
• Greater Rochester Vietnam Veterans Memorial of Greater Rochester.
• Military History Society of Rochester
• New York in the Revolution. During the Revolutionary War this area was still wilderness but many Rev. War veterans later moved to this area.
  
  
• On-line books
• On-line Books page on this website.
• Rochester City Directories (1817 - 1946) digitized by the Monroe Co. Library System.
• Suburban Monroe County Directories (1930 - 1940) digitized by the Monroe Co. Library System.
  
  
• Maps. You may have to use your "back button" to return from some of these links.
• Map page on this website.
• A page with current, highly detailed maps of Monroe County and all the Towns from Monroe County.
• Rochester in 1827.
• Digital Map Collection at RPL. Note: Most of the links on this web page no longer work. See more up to date links in the "Maps and Atlases" chapter in the Genealogical Guide to Monroe County.
  
• Map of Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.
• Map of Mt. Hope Cemetery.
• Map of Riverside Cemetery.
• Other cemetery maps on the Cemetery Page.
  
• Google Maps. The largest map site.
• MapQuest! View a map of anywhere in the US.
• Bing Maps, another good site to make maps.
  
  
• Rochester Neighborhood Associations.
• Browncroft Neighborhood Association.
• Charlotte Community Association.
• Corn Hill Neighbors Association.
• Highland Park Neighborhood Association.
• Maplewood Neighborhood Association.
• MarketView Heights Association.
• 19^th Ward Community Association.
• Swillburg Neighborhood.
• Upper Monroe Neighborhood Association.
• Upper Mt. Hope Neighbors.
  
  
• Town Histories and Historical Societies
• Historic Brighton, NY.
• History of the Village of Brockport.
• Brockport Community Museum. A museum without walls.
• History of the Village of Churchville.
• Clarkson Historical Society.
• History of East Rochester.
• Gates Historical Society.
• A Brief History of the Town of Greece, New York.
• A Brief History of Hamlin.
• Henrietta Historical Society.
• Irondequoit Historical Society.
• History of Mendon.
• Parma Hilton Historical Society
• History of Parma, NY.
• Penfield Local History Room.
• A Brief History of Perinton, NY.
• Perinton Historical Society.
• Pittsford ... A Community Rich in History.
• Polish Heritage Society of Rochester.
• Rochester Historical Society.
• A Brief History of Spencerport, NY
• History of the Town of Sweden.
• Town of Wheatland: Town History.
  
  
• Rochester area museums
• Antique Wireless Association - radio museum in Bloomfield, NY.
• Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse Historical Society.
• Ganondagan State Historic Site. Former site of a Seneca Indian village.
• Genesee Country Village and Museum.
• George Eastman House and International Museum of Photography and Film.
• Granger Homestead and Carriage Museum in Canandaigua.
• Greece Historical Society & Museum.
• Landmark Society of Western New York.
• The Strong: National Museum of Play.
• New York Museum of Transportation.
• The Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum.
• Rochester Medical Meseum and Archives.
• Rochester Museum & Science Center.
• Susan B. Anthony Museum & House.
• Rochester Medical Museum & Archives.
• Rochester Baseball Historical Society
  
  
• Miscellaneous
• Genealogical Guide to Monroe County, NY by Richard T. Halsey. Chapters devoted to the different kinds of records available for Monroe County.
• Historic Highway Markers of Monroe County.
• Known Descendants of Nathaniel Rochester.
• Documents relating to Nathaniel Rochester - Sheriff of Washington County, Maryland; 1804 - 1806.
• Information on NYMONROE-L, the Monroe Co. mail list and how to subscribe. Hosted by RootsWeb.
• Monroe County Message Board on RootsWeb (includes about 20,000 messages back to 1996.) (You need to subscribe to post a message.)
• Monroe County NYGenWeb Archives.
• Monroe Co. Off -Line Sources.
• Rochester History - A journal that covers the history of Rochester and western New York. All articles, from 1939 to the present, are available online.
• Rochester Regional Library Council: Directory of Regional Libraries - Addresses and links for libraries and archives.
• Rochester Wiki; the encyclopedia of Rochester information.
• Rochester Subway blog.
• Historical Records of Ontario Co., NY from the Ontario Co. Archives.
• Ontario County Historical Society.
• Rochester- City Hall. Official pages for the City of Rochester; with these pages of interest:
• Historic Rochester
• Historic Village Trustees (1817 - 1834) and City Council Proceedings (1834 - 1900).
• Records Management Bureau - the Rochester City archives.
• A Guide to Mt. Hope Cemetery.
• Walking Tour of High Falls and Brown's Race Historic District.
• Center at High Falls.
• Existing Railroad Stations. Monroe County page with links to photos. (Click on little red building for photos.)
• Rochester and Eastern Rapid Railway.
• Western New York Suffragists - Winning the Vote.
• Main page of Rush-Rhees Library at the University of Rochester. They do have some genealogy and a lot of historical sources. They are also open real late during the school year.
• The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of Rochester.
• Rochester Time Capsule from 1873.
• Lewis Henry Morgan Chapter of the NY State Archaeology Association.

New York State links

• Genealogical Societies in New York State
• New York Genealogical & Biographical Society. The oldest Genealogical Society in New York State and the second oldest in the US.
• The NY GenWeb - Main page.
• New York State Library.
• Vital records information from the NY State Dept. of Health.
• New York State Archives.
• New York State Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients.
• New York State World War I Medal of Honor Recipients.
• Haudenosaunee - (The People of the Longhouse) - The six Iroquois Nations that originally stretched across upstate New York.
• Seneca Nation.
• Oneida Nation.
• Mohawk Nation.
• Onondaga Nation.
• Cayuga Nation.
• Tuscarora Nation (not official).
• The former website Eagles Byte Historical Research had a time line where you could see what happened in New York State in a specific year. It has been archived on the Internet Archive.
• All New York State Mail Lists relating to genealogical research in the state.
• NY History Net.
• Place name list for New York State.
• The Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation - Search for ancestors and learn about immigrants to America.
• The Olive Tree - Colonial NY genealogy of Dutch, Palatines, Huguenots, Walloons, etc.
• Canal Society of New York State.
• A Boater's Guide to New York State's Waterway: The Erie Canal has lots of links for the Canal.
• African American History of Western New York

General genealogy links

• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet has the biggest collection of genealogy links, in the world.
  
  
• On-line family information.
• Family Search from the LDS Family History Library.
• World Connect on-line family data at RootsWeb.
• Ancestry: Mostly commercial with a few free genealogical sources.
  
  
• Popular Genealogy Blogs
• Dick Eastman's genealogy news.
• Dear Myrtle's Genealogy Blog.
• Genea-Musings from Randy Seaver.
• The Genetic Genealogist - Blaine Bettinger.
• Olive Tree Genealogy Blog - Lorine McGinnis Schulze.
• GenealogyBlog - Leland Meitzler.
  
  
• The US GenWeb Project - homepage.
• Census On-line. Links to US and Canadian census on the web.
• GenForum - Message based surname "queries."
• Online Genealogy Classes from Genealogy.com
• The US National Archives
• New England Historic Genealogical Society. The oldest Genealogical Society in the US.
• National Genealogical Society.
• Federation of East European Family History Societies has the largest number of links for Eastern Europe.

On-line Library Catalogs

• Rochester Public Library has their Online Catalog on their main web page. This will get you references for all public libraries in Monroe County.
• Library catalog for University of Rochester and George Eastman House.
• Drake Library catalog at Brockport State College.
• Lorette Wilmot Library catalog at Narareth College.
• Onondaga County Public Library in Syracuse has a good genealogy collection.
• The catalog for the Buffalo and Erie Co. Public Library.
• Excelsior - The catalog for NY State Library and NY State Archives.
• New York City Public Library catalog.
• Library of Congress catalog. Search the catalog through this page.
• WorldCat searches over 10,000 libraries throughout the world.
• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC). Search for manuscript collections.
• WWW Library Directory with links to over 8800 on-line libraries around world.

Site Maps

• A site map of this website (except for picture pages). That is, it is a listing of all the pages on the website.
• A site map of the picture pages.

Go to Rochester Genealogical Society homepage
Go to Monroe County GenWeb page.

Created on 24 April 1996
Moved to RootsWeb on 18 Nov. 2000
Moved to mcnygenealogy.com on 26 March 2008
24 Sept. 2022

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