Otsego County, New York Genealogy

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Parent County
Montgomery County

Neighboring Counties
Chenango | Delaware | Herkimer | Madison | Montgomery | Oneida | Schoharie

Newspapers
On the New England Ancestors.org site you can search by name, a volume compiled by Gertrude A. Barber in 1933 containing records abstracted from the following nineteenth-century newspapers:

Death Notices from the Cooperstown Federalist, 1808-09 Marriage Notices from the Cooperstown Federalist, 1808-12 Death Notices from the Watch Tower, 1828-31 Marriage Notices from the Watch Tower, 1828-31

The Cooperstown Federalist was published from 1809 to 1817. The Watch Tower began publishing in 1813 in Cherry Valley before moving to Cooperstown the following year. It ceased operations in 1831.

City, Towns, Villages, Hamlets, Community

 * City: Oneonta
 * Towns: Burlington . Butternuts . Cherry Valley . Decatur . Edmeston . Exeter . Hartwick . Laurens . Maryland . Middlefield . Milford . Morris . New Lisbon . Oneonta . Otego . Otsego . Pittsfield . Plainfield . Richfield . Roseboom . Springfield . Unadilla . Westford . Worcester
 * Villages: Cherry Valley . Cooperstown . Gilbertsville . Laurens . Milford . Morris . Otego . Richfield Springs . Unadilla
 * Hamlets: Schenevus . Schuyler Lake . West Edmeston
 * Community: West End

Web Sites

 * FamilySearch.org catalog for Otsego County
 * The Otsego County NYGenWeb Project, an member of The NYGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.