Last week I worked on transcribing vital records from Rochester newspapers from the first half of 1840. They ended up on the web page “Marriages and Deaths from Rochester Newspapers; Jan. 1840 – June 1840.” There were no birth records in the newspapers in those days. There are marriages and death from both Rochester and …
The Greece Historical Society got a grant to scan the early issues of The Greece Post. Those issues are now on NYS Historic Newspapers. There is this page with details on the newspaper and where you could just search that one paper. This was a Wolfe Publication and the first issue was dated April 27, …
I finished extracting marriages and deaths from Rochester newspapers for the second half of 1839. The web page has all those vitals that probably can’t be found any other place. That completes all the Rochester newspaper records from 1818 to the end of 1839. Those are linked to on the vital record page. I also …
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I extracted the marriages and death from the Rochester newspapers from the first half of 1839 and put them on this web page. I do my best to make them look like what was in the newspapers, including spelling mistakes. Besides marriage and death notices there seem to be a lot of people that were …