MONTGOMERY COUNTY LINKS OF INTEREST

This page is one of the most useful resources on our site. Some of the sites aren't genealogy sites; former area residents can "go back home". Some non-county historical sites and commercial vendors are also listed. Please notify us if a link doesn't work.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY MILITARY LINKS

FAMILY GENEALOGY PAGES WITH HERKIMER/MONTGOMERY CONNECTIONS

GOVERNMENT RESOURCES

National Archives Home Page: the place to go for info about microfilm availability and roll numbers, forms to order military and pension records, info on each regional branch of the National Archives, etc.

New York State Library Home Page

Genealogical Research at the NY State Library

New York State Archives and Records Administration

New York State Historical Association: at Cooperstown, NY. A large site, including info on their research library.

Mohawk Valley Library Association

The Documentarian: award-winning section of the above site, includes a number of resources on the local history and genealogy of our region

The New York State Newspaper Project: old newspapers for all NY State counties and some cities

NY State Historic Markers

New York State Historical Association Research Library

GENERAL GENEALOGY RESOURCES

Ellis Island Immigration Records: searchable records database with millions names of the immigrants who came through Ellis Island between 1 January 1892, when Ellis Island opened, and December 1924.

RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees

Rootsweb's WorldConnect Project

US GenWeb Archives Table of Contents

NYGenWeb Archives - NY State

Rootsweb Town Search: type in town and it will return county and states

New York State Off-line Resources: where to find NY State books in our state libraries. A work in progress.

Making Of America: Cornell Univ. online history books and useful genealogical resources.

National DAR Homepage

Notable Women Ancestors

Newspaper Abstracts Project

Central New York Genealogical Society

New York Roots: formerly the New York History and Genealogy Project

The Grand Army of the Republic Posts in New York State: the G.A.R. was the Civil War veterans organization.

Orphans Home Site:to aid researchers with ancestral orphans via transcriptions and citations of orphan listings from all United State and Canadian censuses, orphanage information (addresses, those not reporting to censuses, location of records), orphanage rosters as obtained, message boards, and more. Search, post, and contribute.

Bing Online Language Translator: translate English to other languages, and vice versa; not totally accurate but sufficient to get the gist

Past Connections: keepsakes that have been found at yard and garage sales, flea markets, estate sales and other sources (thank you to Marie Bartley Coppola for this one)

Association for Gravestone Studies: articles and links to cemetery-related materials

Historical Societies of NY State: listings of societies all over the state

LDS Records Search

Find-a-Grave: state-by-state listings of cemeteries and individual burial search

Interment.net: state-by-state listings to online cemeteries

EarlyAmerica.com

The Poorhouse Story: clearinghouse for information about 19th century American poorhouses

Census Online - Links to Online Census Records

New York State Census Online

TheHistoryCalendar.com: calendar of historical events, activities, meetings, exhibits, lectures, etc. from all over the U.S.!

COUNTY HISTORY RESOURCES

Montgomery County Dept. of History & Archives in Fonda NY

Montgomery County Department of History and Archives Facebook Page

Online Book - History of Montgomery County; embracing early discoveries, the advance of civilization, the labors and triumphs of Sir William Johnson, the inception and development of manufactures, with town and local records, also military achievements of Montgomery patriots (1892), by Washington Frothingham

Three Rivers... Hudson-Mohawk-Schoharie Site : large website covering history of the Mohawk Valley and beyond

Fort Plank: Colonial history of Canajoharie and Fort Plain

Montgomery County N.Y. Genforum Board

Drums Along the Mohawk: The American Revolution on the New York Frontier

The Erie Canal Home Page

Fort Johnson National Historic Site: home of Sir William Johnson in Ft. Johnson, Montgomery County, NY; visitors information

Mid-York Library System

Margaret Reaney Memorial Library: St. Johnsville, NY

Adirondack Research Library

Adirondack History Network

Tryon County NYGenWeb: visit the "parent county" of Herkimer and Montgomery; source for regional pre-Revolutionary War history and genealogy. Permanently frozen in time, last updated in 1998, this site is still on line at a courtesy.

Elgin County Ontario Canada Genealogical Society: many Mohawk Valley Loyalists moved here

The Political Graveyard of Montgomery County: birthplaces, death places, and cemeteries of politicians

St. John's Reformed Church, St. Johnsville, NY - the church through it's long history, including the 1970 book "A History of St. John's Reformed Church, Formerly The Reformed Calvinist Church of The Upper Part of Palatine In The County of Montgomery", with history, vital records lists, and more.

St. Johnsville Chamber of Commerce Page

New World Dutch Barns Society

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OTHER COUNTY RESOURCES

Montgomery County NY official web site

Town of Mohawk Home Page

Existing Old Railroad Stations of New York State: searchable database

Montgomery County Poorhouse History

Central New York Fire Apparatus: lots of great pictures of fire trucks from all over.

MAPS

Thomas Kitchin's Mohawk Valley Map of 1772

Map of the Erie Canal

United States Digital Map Library : a project of the USGenWeb Archives.

1868 Map of the State of New York Showing its Canals and Railroads: a must see. 249k jpeg

Central New York Town Map

Panoramic View Maps

LINKS FOR TRAVELERS

We've received many requests for tourism information. The Montgomery County NY GenWeb page isn't sponsored by any government or other agency or historical society. In response to most of your requests, we haven't had ready or up-to-date answers to your questions and weren't able to be of much help, a waste of our mutual time. We recommend you do what we'd do ourselves - see what's out there on one of the major search engines.

Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce

PO Box 309
Amsterdam, NY 12010
Phone: (518) 842-8200, or 1-800-743-7337
Visit our headquarters at Guy Park Manor Historic Site: Take Thruway Exit 27 (Amsterdam), turn right (north) onto Rte. 30, turn left (west) onto Route 5, proceed 1.5 miles.

Visit Montgomery County, NY

Fort Plain/Nelliston Chamber of Commerce

St. Johnsville Chamber of Commerce

Schoharie County Chamber of Commerce

Erie Canal Village: driving to or from Herkimer and Montgomery County, stop in to neighboring Oneida County. Erie Canal Village recreates canal life in the mid-1800s. Includes three museums; a mule-drawn packet boat, narrow gauge railroad ride, horse drawn vehicles, former Merry and Weeks cheese factory, old tavern, blacksmith shop, canal general store, print shop, one-room school house, and other historical buildings.

National Register of Historical Places

COMMERCIAL RESOURCES

Listing of commercial resources for books does not imply our endorsement of any particular services. Companies listed are dedicated to helping researchers in the on-line genealogical community and are committed to giving good personal service.

W. David Samuelsen's Will Testators Indexes Online

Hope Farm Press

Heritage Books

PROFESSIONAL RESEARCHERS

Sorry, but it's our firm policy to NEVER, EVER recommend or endorse professional and/or "for hire" genealogists. As we're not historians or professional genealogists ourselves, we're in no position to vouch for anyone's qualifications, track record or honesty. To do so would be akin to setting up a blind date. If something goes wrong, guess who's blamed? As genealogy becomes more popular and commercialized, unqualified "researchers" and services run by charlatans are hanging up their shingles and eager to flatten your wallet. To engage the services of **qualified researchers**, please contact the societies listed on our historical societies page. Society personnel are personally familiar with professionals (some certified, some not) who regularly use their collections and can put you in contact with someone qualified to undertake your particular assignment. This advice should be heeded with any location you're researching in. Caveat emptor = Buyer Beware.

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