Oswego County, New York Genealogy

United States New York  Oswego County

Parent County
1 March 1816: Oswego County was created from parts of Oneida and Onondaga counties.

Record Loss

 * Lost census: 1890

Cemeteries

 * NY Genealogy - Stories in Stone -  Search Oswego cemetery burials.
 * NY Gen Web Cemetery List Oswego County
 * Another NY Gen Web Cemetery List Oswego County
 * Find a grave - map of cemeteries, Oswego County
 * Find a grave - list of cemeteries in Oswego County
 * NY Gen Web Archives - Oswego Cemeries  Listings for a few cemeteries.

Gazetteers

 * Oswego County Gazetteer - NY Home Town Locator

Maps

 * Oswego County 1867 Shows Towns of Oswego -  New York Public Library Online
 * Oswego County 1871 Shows Towns of Oswego -  Harvest of History
 * Outline of Oswego County Over Google Map -  NY Home Town Locator
 * Map of towns of Central New York -  Only shows sourthern towns of Oswego County  -  Cortland County NY Gen Web
 * Links to Oswego County Maps -  Linkpendium

Military History and Records
The Civil Ward involvement for Oswego County created the New York 110th Infantry Regiment. It included the following companies:

Company A - principally recruited from Volney, Oswego County

Company B - principally recruited from Richland, Albion and Williamstown, all of Oswego County

Company C - principally recruited from Orwell, Sandy Creek, Boylston and Redfield, all of Oswego County

Company D - principally recruited from Hastings and Schroeppel, both of Oswego County

Company E - principally recruited from Mexico, New Haven and Palermo, all of Oswego County

Company F - principally recruited from Hannibal, Oswego County

Company G - principally recruited from Oswego, Scriba, Amboy and West Monroe, all of Oswego County

Company H - principally recruited from Oswego, Oswego County

Company I - principally recruited from Oswego, Schroeppel and Volney, all of Oswego County

Company K - principally recruited from Constantia, Parish, West Monroe and Amboy, all of Oswego County

See the Regiment Roster, for listing of individuals, their company and their involvement.

Newspapers

 * Northern New York Historical Newspapers -  Search the Fulton Patriot, years 1916-1954, the Oswegonian, years 1935-2002, the Pulaski Democrat, years 1834-1990, and the Sandy Creek News, years 1871-1985, or all of them at once.
 * Old Fulton Postcards -  Free searchable web site which holds newspapers from upstate New York, including Oswego county.
 * Oswego Palladium Times at ancestry.com -  $ requires ancestry.com subscription

Societies, Libraries and Museums

 * Northern New York Library Network - Oswego County

Websites

 * The Oswego County NYGenWeb Project, a member of The NYGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.
 * US Gen Web Archives Owego County
 * FamilySearch.org catalog for Oswego County
 * ancestry.com Oswego County Search - $ requires ancestry.com subscription
 * Oswego County Links - Linkpendium
 * Oswego County Links - Rootsweb
 * Oswego County Links - Cyndi's List - Scroll or search down to "Oswego" for Oswego County Links
 * Oswego County Links - Gen Net - American Local History Network (ALHN) and the American History and Genealogy Project (AHGP).
 * Oswego County Links - GenealogyLinks.net
 * Oswego County Links - My New York Genealogy
 * Oswego County Links - Kindred Trails
 * Oswego County Links - D'ADDEZIO.com