It took me over a year and a half but I finally have completed the online version of my Genealogical Guide to Monroe County. I just have too many projects going at a time to have completed it any sooner. Making it available online also means that I can update chapters when new records become …
I uploaded a new chapter to the Genealogical Guide on Military and Veteran’s Records. I cover most of the Wars from the Revolutionary War to the Vietnam War. I left out the Mexican War because very few men from this area would have served in that war. I also left out the Spanish-American War as …
I uploaded a new chapter to the Genealogical Guide on Ethnic Histories or more exactly a list of links to find those histories. A few older ones have been digitized but for the most part you will have to find the books in a library near you. Germans are well represented and Kathleen Urbanic’s book …
I uploaded a new chapter to the Genealogical Guide on adoption records of Monroe County. The old records of larger organizations still exist; Rochester Orphan Asylum (now Hillside) and the 3 Catholic orphanages. The old Asylum records were moved to the University of Rochester many years ago. In the last few years all the catholic …