Many of your notes to us ask for information that's available right here on our links list. The listing below is one of the finest resources on our site and we hope you'll spend many hours visiting and returning to this section and all it's treasures. Some of the sites are not genealogy sites; former area residents can "go back home". Some commercial vendors and non-county historical sites are also listed.

***Because of time considerations, I haven't been able to recheck all of these links yet. We need one or two hardcore web surfers to volunteer to test all the links.***

Please contact me at any time to 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

New York State Library On-line Service: the direct on-line page for researching the New York State Public Library in Albany, New York, including FTP, Gopher, and an EXCELSIOR search of the library's catalog holdings if you have NCSA Telnet installed. Very convenient for you out-of-staters who plan a drive through New York State and want to fit in a library visit to Albany! Most books must be used in-library. The library's holdings include family genealogies, county material, microfilms, and a wealth of general genealogical material

Genealogical Research at the NYState 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: check this out for old newspapers for all NY State counties; now includes city search option

NY State Historic Markers

NYS Library List of County Newspapers

Ellis Island Immigration Records: searchable records database with 22 million names, covering 71 percent of the immigrants who came through Ellis Island between 1 January 1892, when Ellis Island opened, and December 1924.

GENERAL GENEALOGY RESOURCES

RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees

Rootsweb's WorldConnect Project:

GenSeeker: search engine accessing almost all sites at RootsWeb and many genealogical sites elsewhere on the Web

US GenWeb Archives Table of Contents

NYGenWeb Archives - NY State

Surname Helper: more than 2.5 million entries with links to US Gen Web, World Gen Web and thousands of other web sites

Rootsweb's Surname Resources Search Engine

Rootsweb Hosted Mailing Lists - Interactive Search: if you know the name of a mailing list, search its back archives

Rootsweb's Searchable Social Security Death Index

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. put many local history books and useful genealogical resources on-line for all to use.

Browse the Book Colection and then chose the first letter of the author. Under "C" you'll find several titles by Hamilton Childs (Note: this company put out the 1860s directories we have in each Herkimer and Montgomery town section): http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/MOA/bookc.html

This is a wonderful source with clear printable images, but at present it is unindexed and is slow loading. The page numbers and "image" numbers used don't jibe, but if you know the page number you can just add 2 and get the proper "image" number (page 105 is image 107)"

Troy's RiverSpark Visitor Center Bibliography: a local orientation center for New York State's Hudson-Mohawk Heritage Area; an annotated bibliography of books, articles and primary source material on the Hudson-Mohawk region of New York State.

National DAR Homepage: Discover resources you never knew existed.

Notable Women Ancestors

Newspaper Abstracts Project

Central New York Genealogical Society

American Local History Network: NYS Main Page

Palatines to America Home Page

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

Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness

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.

Online Language Translator: translate English to German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, 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)

Geneanet's Unknown Photographs

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

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

Census Online - New York State

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

COUNTY HISTORY RESOURCES

Tryon County NYGenWeb: visit the "parent county" of Herkimer and Montgomery; source for regional pre-Revolutionary War history and genealogy. This is not an active website.

Fort Klock Historic Restoration: early history of the Fort, St. Johnsville and Montgomery County and continually updated

St. John's Reformed Church, St. Johnsville, NY - the church now and 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. This site is a **must-see** if you had early Montgomery County ancestors.

St. Johnsville Chamber of Commerce Page

Adirondack Research Library

Erie Canal Chronology and Bibliography

The Erie Canal Home Page

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

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

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

Existing Old Railroad Stations of New York State: searchable database

Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville Railroad

Margaret Reaney Memorial Library : St. Johnsville, NY

Mid-York Library System

Montgomery County Dept. of History & Archives in Fonda NY

WALRATH, WALLRATH, WALRAD, WALLRAD (and other spellings) Birth Records: from early Mohawk Valley Church Records

Elgin County Ontario Canada Genealogical Society: look here for members' Loyalist surnames

Montgomery County Poorhouse History

Montgomery County N.Y. Genforum Board

New World Dutch Barns Society

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

MAILING LISTS

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Please contact Kim Branagan, listowner of both lists, if you have additional questions.
Kim Branagan, List Owner

The mailing list is separate from the Montgomery County NYGenWeb and not part of our site. Please address **all** questions about it to Kim Branagan, who is the list owner. When posting surname queries on the list, don't forget to submit them to our site at the same time, if we don't already have them, so non-subscribers won't miss your families.


UNITED-EMPIRE-LOYALIST: a new Rootsweb mailing list. The United Empire Loyalists left the United States for Canada during and after the American Revolution. Follow the same instructions as given for the lists above:

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OTHER COUNTY RESOURCES

Montgomery County NY official web site

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

Adirondack History Network

MAPS

Thomas Kitchin's Mohawk Valley Map of 1772

Herkimer County Map

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

Microsoft Terra Server: zero in on a location from outer space

Central New York Town Map

Animated Map Showing Settlement of the US

Panoramic View Maps

LINKS FOR TRAVELERS

We've received many requests for tourism information. The Montgomery County NYGenWeb page is not 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.

Please link to the site of the listed county Chambers of Commerce if you have questions or need specific information about accommodations, camping facilities, restaurants, and family vacation activities, or would like to receive a map and tourist packet of info.

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.

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 mid2800s. 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

Kinship Books

Heritage Books

PROFESSIONAL RESEARCHERS

It's our 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 match you, or put you in contact, with someone qualified to undertake your particular assignment. This advice should be heeded with any county you're researching in. Caveat emptor = Buyer Beware.

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