Lewis County, New York Genealogy

United States New York  Lewis County

Parent County
Created 28 March 1805 from Jefferson and Oneida counties.

Neighboring Counties
Herkimer)· Jefferson· Oneida· Oswego· St. Lawrence

Cemeteries

 * Search Lewis County cemetery burials. NNY Genealogy - Stories in Stone

Census
For information and tips on using and accessing online census records, see New York Census.

Church Records

 * 1843-1883 - West Leyden Evangelical Lutheran and German Reformed Parish Baptisms, courtesy: NYGenWeb.
 * 1843-1880 - West Leyden Evangelical Lutheran and German Reformed Parish Marriages, courtesy: NYGenWeb.
 * 1844-1868 - West Leyden Evangelical Lutheran and German Reformed Parish Confirmations, courtesy: NYGenWeb.
 * 1846-1880 - West Leyden Evangelical Lutheran and German Reformed Parish Deaths, courtesy: NYGenWeb.
 * West Leyden Evangelical Lutheran and German Reformed Parish Families, courtesy: NYGenWeb.

Military
Civil War

Available towns. Registers are available for: Denmark· Diana· Greig· Harrisburg· Leyden· Lowville· Lyonsdale· Montague· New Bremen· Osceola· Pinckney· Turin· West Turin.

Regiments. Service men in Lewis County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county.


 * - 130th Regiment, New York Infantry

Newspapers

 * Northern New York Historical Newspapers Search the Lewis County Democrat, years 1867-1906 and the Lowville Journal and Republican, years 1860-1940.

Probate Records

 * 1806-1870 - SAMPUBCO - Browsable index of testators of wills.
 * 1840-1847 - Will Index, Volume C (1840-1847), courtesy: NYGenWeb.

Archives, Libraries and Museums
Libraries

Lowville Free Library 5387 Dayan Street Lowville, New York 13367 Phone: 315-376-2131 Hours: Monday and Friday 1 - 5 pm Tuesday and Thursday 10 am - 8 pm Wednesday 12 - 5 pm Saturday 10 am - 2 pm Facebook

Courthouses
The Lewis County Clerk has birth, death, divorce, court, land, naturalization, miliatry rolls and state census. The Surrogate Court has probate records. For further information about where the records for Lewis County are held, see the Lewis County Courthouse page.

Societies

 * Lewis County Historical Society 7552 South State Street Lowville, New York 13367 Phone: 315-376-8957 or 315-376-2825 Email: lewiscountyhistoricalsociety@gmail.com

Collection includes local and regional history books, farm and business directories, obituaries, cemetery records, early newspapers on microfilm (182501993), immigration index, photographs, genealogies, historical documents and morel


 * Central New York Genealogical Society Box 104, Calvin Station Syracuse, New York 13205 E-mail: [mailto:CNYGS@yahoo.com CNYSG@yahoo.com]


 * Member queries; surname research list; online resources; six meetings/year; publication: Tree Talks  quarterly with annual index.


 * Counties served: Albany, Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Chemung, Chenango, Clinton, Columbia, Cortland, Delaware, Erie, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Genesee, Greene, Hamilton, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Livingston, Madison, Monroe, Montgomery, Niagara, Oneida, Onondaga, Ontario, Orange, Oreleans, Oswego, Otsego, Rensselaer, St. Lawrence, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins, Washington, Wayne, Warren, Wyoming, and Yates.


 * 4 River Valleys Historical Society P.O. Box 504 Carthage, New York 13619 Phone: 315-773-5133

Divorce
Additional Resources

Websites

 * The Lewis County NYGenWeb Project, an member of The NYGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Lewis County.
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Lewis County. (Backup site)