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Alternate Repositories
If you cannot visit or find a source at the , a similar source may be available at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections


 * Library of Congress, Washington, DC, the Holland Land Company deeds are part of the world's largest library including 50,000 genealogies, 100,000 local histories, and collections of manuscripts, microfilms, maps, newspapers, photographs, and published material, strong in North American, British Isles, and German sources.
 * National Archives at New York City, has Holland Land Company deeds, federal censuses, Ancestry.com, military, pensions, bounty land, photos, passenger indexes, New York port and shipping, naturalizations, inventions.
 * New York Public Library Genealogy Division in Manhattan has an outstanding collection of American history at national, state and local levels; international genealogy and heraldry in Roman alphabets; Dorot Jewish collection; photos; New York censuses, directories, and vital records. They also have the Holland Land Company deeds.
 * New York State Library, Albany, has local histories, genealogies, atlases, church, cemetery (including DAR), city directories, microfilmed newspapers, censuses, passenger lists, periodicals, and copies of the Holland Land Company deeds.

Similar Collections


 * Cornell University Library, Ithaca, has a large collection of Protestant church records for western New York as well as an excellent collection of histories, maps, newspapers, and New York censuses. Rare books and manuscripts are outstanding, and they publish the best research guides to New York counties.

Neighboring Collections


 * Chautauqua County Clerk, Mayville, deeds, marriages 1908-1935, censuses 1825-1925, and military discharges. (Town clerks have births and deaths)
 * Chautauqua County Historian, Mayville, earliest legal and court records dating from 1811.
 * Chautauqua County Surrogates Court 8th JD, Maysville, wills and probate records.
 * United States District Court for the Western District of New York, Buffalo and Rochester, (includes Chautauqua County) has recent civil, criminal, and bankruptcy cases.
 * Chautauqua County Historical Society, Westfield, has dozens of genealogies.
 * Chautauqua County Genealogical Society, Fredonia, seminars and publications.
 * Smith Memorial Library, Chautauqua, helps genealogical researchers.
 * Orchard Park New York Family History Center has premium online services for free, offers research suggestions, and can order microfilms from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.
 * Repositories in surrounding counties: in New York: Cattaraugus, Erie, and in Pennsylvania: Erie, and Warren.


 * State Vital Records Office
 * State Historical Society
 * State Genealogical Society
 * University Libraries
 * Church archives
 * Repositories in surrounding states (or provinces): Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Quebec, and Vermont.