Olean, Cattaraugus County, New York Genealogy

Guide to Olean, Cattaraugus ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Church Records
Online Church Dadtabases


 * 1852-1879 1st Presbyterian Church Records, Olean, Cattaraugus County, NY 1852-1879. Church Roll to 1874 at NYGenWeb - free.

Original Church Records


 * Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church (Olean, New York), Church records, 1829-1938 (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1983).
 * First Methodist Episcopal Church (Olean, New York), Church records, 1871-1938 (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1983).
 * Catholic Church. St. Mary of the Angels (Olean, New York), Church records, 1876-1917.
 * People's Methodist Episcopal Church (Olean, New York), Church records, 1893-1959 (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1983).
 * Bethany Lutheran Church (Olean, New York), Church records, 1902-1946 (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1985).

Archives, Libraries and Museums
Libraries

Museums

Olean Point Museum The Fannie Bartlett House 302 Laurens St. Olean, NY 14760 Phone: 716-376-5642 E-mail: ddeckman@cityofolean.org Museum Information

City and Town Clerks
Alexander Utecht, City Clerk Olean Municipal Building l01 East State Street PO Box 668 Olean, NY 14760 Phone: 716-376-5604 Fax: 716-376-5634 E-mail: autecht@cityofolean.org

Wannetta A. Shelley, Town Clerk 1143 Steam Valley Rd. PO Box 487 Olean, NY 14760 Phone: (716) 373-0582 Fax: (716) 373-0640

City and Town Historians
David Deckman, City Historian 107 East Ohio St. Olean, NY 14760

Olean Town Historian (Vacant)

Newspapers

 * The Democrat (Olean, N.Y.). 1880-1883. Indexed and searchable at Ancestry ($).


 * The Olean Democrat. 1883-1895. Indexed and searchable at Ancestry ($).


 * Olean Evening Times. 1909-1941. Indexed and searchable at Ancestry ($).


 * Olean Evening Herald. 1913-1925. Indexed and searchable at Ancestry ($).


 * Times Herald (Olean, N.Y.). 1935-1951. Indexed and searchable at Ancestry ($).

Vital Records
City of Olean, Vital Records 101 East State Street PO Box 668 Olean, NY 14760-0668 Phone:716-376-5604