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Guide to Ontario County, New York ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Description
The County was named for Lake Ontario. The County is located in the west area of the state.

County Courthouse
27 North Main Street Canandaigua, New York 14424 Ontario County Website The Ontario Records Management Officer has marriage, divorce, probate, court land, Revolutionary War, naturalization records as well as state census and county maps. For further information about where the records for Ontario County are held, see the Ontario page.

County Clerk County Clerk 20 Ontario Street Canandaigua, NY 14424 Phone: (585) 396-4200

Populated Places
For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit HomeTown Locator. The following are the most historically and genealogically relevant populated places in this county:

History Timeline

 * 18 March 1796: Steuben County set off.
 * 30 March 1802: Genesee County set off.
 * 1814: A part taken from Steuben County.
 * 23 February 1821: Livingston and Monroe counties set off.
 * 5 February 1823: Yates County set off.
 * 11 April 1823: Wayne County set off.


 * Various Years - Ontario County: Decrees, Minutes, Orders, 1862-1872; Guardianship records, 1814-1817, 1862-1876; Inventories, 1797-1822; Letters of administration, 1851-1864; Letters of administration, Letters of testamentary, 1838-1865; Letters of guardianship, 1830-1862; Letters, 1830-1838, 1864-1870; Orders, 1862-1874; Probate records, 1818-1851, 1862-1924; Real estate records, 1851-1883; Surrogate record index, 1789-1965; Wills, 1795-1823, 1830-1875

Bible Records

 * 1581-1917 New York, Family Bible Records at Ancestry ($); Index. Database is a collection of genealogically important records taken from the Bibles of colony and state residents. Reveals the Bible's original owner, brief record of descendants,and a particular event such as birth or marriage as recorded in Bible.

Biographies

 * Ontario County, New York Biographies -- Access Genealogy

Cemeteries

 * Cemetery records often reveal birth, death, relationship, military, and religious information.
 * 1800-1965 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; Index/Images

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

 Federal

 State


 * See also Using the Census to find other records about ancestors
 * The Ontario County Records and Archives Center has many census indexes online. They have completed up to 1892. The indexes are divided by towns.

Church Records
Online Databases 
 * 1823-1874 Rev. Noah Barrell's Record of Marriages, 1823-1874 at NYGenWeb - free.
 * 1846-1888 Marriages Performed by Rev. O.P. Alderman of Naples &amp; Phelps 1846-1888, courtesy: NYGenWeb - free.
 * 1850s-1880s Marriage and Funeral Records of Universalist Church, courtesy: NYGenWeb - free.
 * Cornell University's Study Center for Early Religious Life in Western New York has an online guide to Ontario County church records in their library.

 List of Churches and Church Parishes
 * FamilySearch Places

Court Records
Online Court Indexes and Records The Ontario County Records and Archives Center has placed many of their historical records on-line including various court records.

Emigration and Immigration

 * 1906-1942 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; Index/Images

Land and Property Records
Original land records in Ontario County began in 1789.These records are housed at the Record and Archives Center,3051 County Complex Drive in Canandaigua, New York, 14424.

 Books


 * The indenture was procured from Chiefs and Warriors of the Five Indian Nations inhabiting this land by “fee or right of soil” in July of 1789. Nathan Gorham of Charlestown, Massachusetts and Oliver Phelps claimed title and began their development of this New York land from that date forward while never establishing residence in that State.
 * The original records for the Holland Land Company are in Holland. SUNY (State University of New York) at Fredonia microfilmed the records and they are in SUNY Brockport, New York.
 * Also available at "Holland Land Company Records"
 * The Ontario County Records and Archives Center has placed many of their historical records on-line including the following:
 * 1789-1845 Real Property Deeds for the period 1789-1845.
 * 1830'3-1860's Chattel Mortgages 1830's-1860's
 * 1840'3-1870's Chattel Morgages 1840's-1870's

Local Histories

 * The original owners of this land were men of Massachusetts and Connecticut, Nathan Gorham and Oliver Phelps.
 * They were trustees for thirteen Dutch investors in Amsterdam. Trustees were needed because aliens were not then permitted to own land. This tract was later known as The Holland Purchase.
 * The legal transactions and recordings were conducted in Massachusetts by the General Court assembled and passed in that House of Representatives and Senate. It was approved byJohn Hancock, the governor of Massachusetts, before it was recorded in New York. Many transactions thereafter recorded include the grantors Nathan Gorham of Massachusetts and Oliver Phelps of Connecticut. A deed in 1817 from Oliver Phelps daughter, Mary, granted land to the school commissioner of Connecticut.
 * More about Bristol and Our History, by the Town of Bristol, has a fairly lengthy history of the town (accessed 19 October 2011).
 * New York Indexes (many counties) at EveryNameIndex.com — Select the county.

Maps and Gazetteers

 * 1683-1915 Maps of New York (1683-1915)
 * Map of Ontario County Showing Town Boundaries - Ontario County NYGenWeb
 * Maps of Ontario County - Linkpendium
 * Maps of Bristol's Past - Town of Bristol
 * Western New York Legacy has many digital maps for western New York
 * FamilySearch Places: Map of cities and towns in this county - How to Use FS Places

Migration
Early migration routes to and from Ontario County for European settlers included:
 * Great Genesee Road 1794
 * Erie Canal 1825

Military Records
 General
 * Bristol Veterans lists veterans buried in the town of Bristol.

 Civil War

Online Civil War Indexes and Records
 * 1861-1865 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; Index/Images at partner site

Available towns. Registers are available for: Bristol· Canadice· Canandaigua· East Bloomfield· Gorham· Hopewell· Naples· Phelps· Richmond· Seneca· Victor· West Bloomfield. Regiments Service men in Ontario County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county.
 * - 1st Battalion, New York Light Artillery, Battery K.
 * - 1st Regiment, New York Engineers, Company G.
 * - 8th Regiment, New York Cavalry, Companies A, D, G and M, 2nd Company L, and 3rd Company K.
 * - 9th Regiment, New York Cavalry, Companies F and M.
 * - 15th Regiment, New York Cavalry, Company C.
 * - 18th Regiment, New York Infantry, Company G.
 * - 24th Regiment, New York Cavalry, Companies H and L.
 * - 28th Regiment, New York Infantry, Company E.
 * - 33rd Regiment, New York Infantry, Companies D and H.
 * - 38th Regiment, New York Infantry, Company H.
 * - 55th Regiment, New York Infantry, Companies D, E, F, G, H and K.
 * - 85th Regiment, New York Infantry, Companies B and G.
 * - 100th Regiment, New York Infantry, Company B.
 * - 126th Regiment, New York Infantry, Companies D E, H and K.
 * - 138th Regiment, New York Infantry, Company F.
 * - 148th Regiment, New York Infantry, Companies A, C, D, F, G, I and K.
 * - 154th Regiment, New York Infantry, Company H.
 * - 160th Regiment, New York Infantry, Company E.
 * - 179th Regiment, New York Infantry, Company E.
 * - 194th Regiment, New York Infantry, Companies C, D and I.

The Ontario County Records and Archives Center has placed many of their historical records on-line which include the following military records:
 * Civil War Records
 * Civil War Pension Records
 * Military Commissions
 * Civil War Records from 1865 Census Records
 * Revolutionary War Pension Records

Naturalization and Citizenship
Online Naturalization Indexes and Records
 * 1791-1980 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; Index/Images
 * 1803-1956 The Ontario County Records and Archives Center has place two Indexes for Naturalization Records for the periods 1803-1906 and 1906-1956 on line.
 * 1907-1966 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; Index/Images at partner site

Newspapers

 * Old Fulton Postcards.- Free search-able web site which holds newspapers from upstate New York.
 * Daily Messenger (Canandaigua, New York) - ancestry.com - $ need subscription
 * Ontario County (NY) newspapers on microfilm and paper at all NYS locations - New York State Library


 * Canandaigua NY Ontario Repository 1817-1826
 * Naples NY Neopolitan 1840-1887
 * Naples NY News 1898-1943
 * Naples NY Record 1870-1960
 * Phelps NY Citizen 1877-1955
 * Phelps NY Country Editor 1963-1966
 * Geneva NY Advertiser 1841-1904
 * Geneva NY Courier 1831-1883
 * Geneva NY Daily Times 1895-1978
 * Geneva NY Expoiter 1806-1809
 * Geneva NY Finger Lake Times 1977-1988
 * Geneva NY Gazette 1809-1823
 * Geneva NY Gazette 1809-1914
 * Geneva NY Palladium 1825-1828

Probate Records
Online Probate Indexes and Records
 * 1626-1836 Calendar of Wills On File and Recorded in the Offices of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, of the County Clerk at Albany, and of the Secretary of State, 1626-1836 at FamilySearch Digital Library; Also at: Ancestry ($), American Ancestors ($)
 * 1629-1971 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; Images only
 * 1659-1999 New York Wills and Probate Records 1659-1999 at Ancestry — index & images($)
 * 1787-1835 Abstracts of Wills, Administrations and Guardianships in NY State at American Ancestors ($).
 * 1789-1926 Surrogate Court Records, courtesy Ontario County Historian's Site.
 * 1795-1888 SAMPUBCO Browsable index of testators of wills.
 * 1795-1827 Ontario County Estate Records for residents of what is now Yates County, courtesy The Yates County Office of Public History.
 * 1848-1850 Harriett M. Wiles, Abstracts of Wills of Ontario County, New York, 1848-1849-1850: Volume 12 (XII) (Liber D) (Sl.: s.n., 1949). Digital version at Ancestry ($).
 * 1866-1923 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; Index/Images
 * 1927-1965 Index to Surrogate Court Records, courtesy Ontario County Records and Archives Center.
 * 1629-1971 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; Images only

 Probate Records on Microfilm
 * 1789-1965 Surrogate Record, General Index
 * 1795-1924 Probate Records (includes wills and index)
 * 1797-1822 Estate Inventory Files
 * 1830-1833 Probate records


 * Various Years - Ontario County: Decrees, Minutes, Orders, 1862-1872; Guardianship records, 1814-1817, 1862-1876; Inventories, 1797-1822; Letters of administration, 1851-1864; Letters of administration, Letters of testamentary, 1838-1865; Letters of guardianship, 1830-1862; Letters, 1830-1838, 1864-1870; Orders, 1862-1874; Probate records, 1818-1851, 1862-1924; Real estate records, 1851-1883; Surrogate record index, 1789-1965; Wills, 1795-1823, 1830-1875

Vital Records

 * The Ontario County Records and Archives Center has placed many of their historical records on-line. They include marriage records, Poor House Indentures, and Vital Town Records.
 * Various nineteenth-century newspaper vital records at NYGenWeb - free.

Birth

 * 1881-1942 New York, Birth Index, 1881-1942 at Ancestry — index($)
 * 1881-1942 Reclaim the Records: New York State Birth Index at Archive.org - images of index

Birth Substitutes
 * 1640-1962 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; Index
 * See Town Clerks' Registers of Men who Served in the Civil War in the Civil War section of Military for birth information.

Marriage

 * 1639-1962 New York, United States Marriages at Findmypast — index ($)
 * 1664-1784 New York. Secretary of State, Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licenses Were Issued By the Secretary of the Province of New York, Previous to 1784 (Albany, New York: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1860). At Cornell University digital library-free; Internet Archive - free; Ancestry edition($); ; . Marriage bonds issued in the State of New York prior to 1784, and the earliest record dating 1664.
 * 1847-1848;1908-1936 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; Index/Images
 * 1881-1964 Reclaim the Records: New York State Marriage Index at Archive - images of index
 * 1908-1935 Ontario County Index to Marriages, 1908-1935 (file folders) at The Ontario County Department of Records, Archives and Information Managament Services - free.
 * 1908-1935 Ontario County Index to Marriage Records 1908-1935 (4 bound volumes) at The Ontario County Department of Records, Archives and Information Management Services - free.
 * 1847-1848;1908-1936 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; Index/Images

Marriage Substitutes
 * 1686-1980 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; Index
 * 1800-1855 New York Marriage Notices at Ancestry– ($); Index. This database is a collection of marriage notices published in newspapers around the state. Contains name of bride and groom, marriage date, marriage location, residence, and newspaper found in.
 * 1801-1880 Barber Collection- Newspaper Marriages at Ancestry ($); Index. Information extracted from the "Brooklyn Eagle" and the "New York Evening Post."
 * 1809-1850 Fred Q. Bowman,10,000 Vital Records of Western New York, 1809-1850 (Baltimore,MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1985).Ancestry ($); MyHeritage ($); ; . Abstracted from newspaper marriage and death columns.
 * 1813-1850 Fred Q. Bowman,10,000 Vital Records of Central New York, 1813-1850 (Baltimore, MD:Genealogical Pub. Co., 1986).Ancestry ($); MyHeritage ($); ;. Abstracted from newspaper marriage and death columns.
 * 1856-1863 Index to Marriages and Deaths in the New York Herald at Ancestry ($); Index. These newspaper notices refer to people up and down the East Coast as well as midwesterners and persons from as far west as the State of California. Also browsable.
 * 1864-5, 1874-5 See Marriage Schedule information in the State Census section of Census for marriage information for 1864-5, and 1874-5.

Death
Death Indexes
 * 1824-1962 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; Index
 * 1880-1956 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; Index/Images
 * 1880-1956 New York, Death Index, 1880-1956 at Ancestry ($), index only
 * 1880-1956 Reclaim the Records: New York State Death Index at Archive.org - images of index
 * 1957-1963 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; Index

Death Substitutes
 * 1795-1952 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; Index
 * 1801-1890 Barber Collection- Newspaper Deaths at Ancestry ($); Index. Information extracted from the "Brooklyn Eagle" and the "New York Evening Post."
 * 1809-1850 Fred Q. Bowman,10,000 Vital Records of Western New York, 1809-1850 (Baltimore,MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1985).Ancestry ($); MyHeritage ($); ; . Abstracted from newspaper marriage and death columns.
 * 1813-1850 Fred Q. Bowman,10,000 Vital Records of Central New York, 1813-1850 (Baltimore, MD:Genealogical Pub. Co., 1986).Ancestry ($); MyHeritage ($); ;. Abstracted from newspaper marriage and death columns.
 * 1849-50, 1859-60, 1869-70, 1879-80 See Mortality Schedule information in the Federal Census section of Census for death information.
 * 1856-1863 Index to Marriages and Deaths in the New York Herald at Ancestry ($); Index. These newspaper notices refer to people up and down the East Coast as well as midwesterners and persons from as far west as the State of California. Also browsable.
 * See Town Clerks' Registers of Men Who Served in the Civil War in the Civil War section of Military for death information.
 * 1864-5, 1874-5 See Mortality Schedule information in the State Census section of Census for death information for 1864-5, and 1874-5.

Archives
Cornell University, Guide to Historical Resources in Ontario County, New York Repositories. ([Ithaca, New York]: New York Historical Resources Center, Olin Library, Cornell University, 1984). ; . Includes index. Includes references to some family histories and genealogies.

 County Historian
 * County Historian 3051 County Complex Drive Canandaigua, NY 14424 Phone: (585) 396-4034
 * Genealogical Resources: The County Historian may provide access to obituaries, vital records, church records, maps, and family files or journals. Some historians provide search services for their office records and others may refer you to local genealogists who research in the area.

FamilySearch Centers

 * Auburn New York FamilySearch Center
 * Fayette New York FamilySearch Center
 * Palmyra New York FamilySearch Center
 * Pittsford New York FamilySearch Center
 * Fairfield Library Association - an affiliate library
 * Richmond Memorial Library - an affiliate library

Libraries

 * Geneva Public Library Local History and Genealogy Collection Website
 * Has atlases, histories, city directories, and filmed newspapers.


 * Bloomfield Public Library 9 Church St, E Bloomfield, NY 14443 phone: 585-657-6264 Website


 * Bristol Library 6750 County Rd 32 Canandaigua, NY 14424 phone: (585) 229-5862. Website
 * Web site explains about the local history and genealogy resources with information about the Town of Bristol Historian. Requests may made to the town historian


 * Ontario County Historian's Site Website
 * Hhas information about veteran burials, cemeteries, and other historical records.


 * Ontario Public Library 1850 Ridge Road Ontario, NY 14519 phone: (315) 524-8381 Website
 * Covers Ontario, Wayne, Wyoming, Livingston Counties (OWWL) Catalog


 * Ontario County Public Libraries Website
 * Web site lists libraries in Ontario County with their addresses and links to their web sites.


 * Pioneer Library System Website
 * Has names and addresses of libraries in Ontario, Livingston, Wayne, and Wyoming counties.

Societies

 * Central New York Genealogical Society Box 104, Calvin Station Syracuse, New York 13205 E-mail: [mailto:CNYGS@yahoo.com CNYSG@yahoo.com]Website
 * Member queries; surname research list; online resources; six meetings/year; publishes 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.


 * Ontario County Genealogical Society 55 North Main Streets Canandaigua, NY 14424 585-394-4975 E-mail: [mailto:emailofsociety barbarah@ocgsny.net] Website


 * Western New York Genealogical Society P.O. Box 338 Hamburg, New York 14075-0338 Email: info@wnygs.org DirectoryWebsite
 * Focus is on eight Western New York counties - Erie, Niagara, Genesee, Wyoming, Orleans, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Allegany - which comprise the area of the original Holland Land Company purchase.

Websites

 * Ancestry
 * Ontario County NYGenWeb
 * The Ontario County NYGenWeb Project, an member of The NYGenWeb Project
 * USGenWeb Archives
 * The Ontario County Records and Archives Center
 * ancestry.com Ontario County Search - $ need ancestry.com subscription
 * Ontario County Links - NY (AHGP - American History and Genealogy Project)
 * Ontario County Links - GenealogyLinks.net
 * Ontario County Links - My New York Genealogy
 * Ontario County Links - I Dream of Genealogy Scroll down to Ontario County, mostly cemtery links)
 * Ontario County NY Genealogy
 * – The FamilySearch catalog contains descriptions and access information for all genealogical materials (including books, online materials, microfilm, microfiche, and publications) in their collection.  Use Historical Records to search for specific individuals in genealogical records.