Clinton County, New York Genealogy

''This article is about an upstate New York county. For other uses, see Clinton''.

United States New York  Clinton County

Parent County

 * 7 March 1788: Set off from Washington County.

Neighboring Counties
Essex· Franklin· Vermont counties: Chittenden· Grand Isle· Quebec counties: Huntindon· Missisquoi· Saint-Jean

Boundary Changes

 * 1 March 1799: Essex County set off
 * 3 March 1805: part taken to form Saint Lawrence County.
 * 1801: a part transferred to Oneida County.
 * 11 March 1808: west part of the county set off to form Franklin County.

Cemeteries
Clinton County Tombstone Transcription Project

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

Genealogy
Rootsweb message boardfor Clinton county has many information threads about families that resided in that county. There is a search engine that allows you to search by surname and topic.

Migration
Early migration routes to and from Clinton County for European settlers included:


 * Hudson River pre-historic
 * Lake Champlain pre-historic
 * Lake Champlain Trail pre-historic
 * Champlain Canal 1823
 * Erie Canal 1825
 * Chambly Canal and the Richelieu River 1843

Civil War

 * United States, Adjutant General's Office, Town Clerks' Registers of Men Who Served in the Civil War in Clinton County, ca. 1865-1867 (Microfilm of original records at New York State Archives and Records Administration, Albany, New York). . Bound registers containing printed forms handwritten by town clerks in Clinton County of all soldiers furnished during the Civil War. Registers are alphabetical by name of county, then alphabetical by name of town. Includes an index at the beginning of a volume. Many records include full name, residence, date and place of birth , parents names , marital status, date of enlistment and muster and rank, discharges, death , or promotion. These Civil War town registers are also found at Ancestry.com($) and are indexed. The Town Clerks registers include: Altona, Au Sable, Beekmantown, Black Brook, Champlain, Chazy, Dannemora, Ellenburgh, Mooers, Peru, Plattsburgh, Saranac, and Schuyler Falls.


 * Civil War service men in Warren County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county.


 * - 118th Regiment, New York Infantry
 * - 153rd Regiment, New York Infantry
 * - 175th Regiment, New York Infantry

Naturalizations and Citizenship

 * The Italian Genealogical Group Clinton County 1865-1906

Newspapers
Search historic Clinton Co. newspapers ranging from years 1811 - 2006.


 * The Press Republican - from 2007 to the present


 * Northern New York Historical Newspapers

Periodicals
Central New York Genealogical Society has indexed Tree Talks periodicals according to counties, surnames, and given names. Use this index onlineto search for ancestors in the Clinton County area.

Probate Records
SAMPUBCO - Browsable index of testators of wills.

Archives, Libraries and Museums
Clinton Essex Franklin Library Systemconsists of 34 public libraries in the counties of Clinton, Essex, and Franklin. Each library has access to genealogical databases - especially newspaper sites. Many are accessible with your library card from home. A list of the libraries in this system and their website and contact information is found here.

Essex County Historical Society Brewster Memorial Research Library and Archives Adirondack History Center Museum 7590 Court Street P.O. Box 428 Elizabethtown, NY 12932 Phone: 518-873-6466 Open by appointment only Cemetery index, special collection library, some census on microfilm, maps, photographs, newspaper collection, and biographies.

Feinberg Library SUNY Plattsburgh 101 Broad St. Plattsburgh, NY 12901 Phone: 518-564-2000 The Special Collections room in the Feinberg library contains many letters, papers, and photographs for several families and businesses. It also includes school records and Civil War letters. Includes manuscript guides for the collections.

Courthouses
The Clinton County Clerk's office has divorce records, land records and the state census. The Surrogate court has probate records. For further information about where the records for Clinton County are held, see the Clinton County Courthouse page.

Family History Libraries
Family History Centers (FHCs) are branches of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and are located all over the world. Their goal is to provide resources to assist in the study of genealogy.

The closest FHC in Clinton county is the Plattsburgh New York Family History Center. For additional Family History Centers, search this online FHC directory.

Societies
Northern New York American Canadian Genealogical Society 15 Vine Street P.O. Box 1256 Keeseville, NY 12944 Phone: 518-834-5401


 * Primarily a French Canadian collection. Church records, censuses, allied genealogical societies publications, genealogies, histories, cemetery records, and parish marriages in Quebec.

Central New York Genealogical Society Box 104, Calvin Station Syracuse, New York 13205


 * Member queries, surname research list, online resources, publications, six meetings/year.


 * 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.

Town Records
Town records in New York may include early births, marriages, deaths, divorces, local histories, selected military records, and town meeting minutes. For further details, try the links to individual town Wiki pages found in Places. See also:


 * Gordon L. Remington, New York Towns, Villages, and Cities: A Guide to Genealogical Sources (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002). ; . Alphabetical list of municipalities including date founded, if a town history exists, church and cemetery sources, and if a Civil War register exists.

General

 * 1777–1834 Fred Q. Bowman,10,000 Vital Records of Eastern New York, 1777-1834 (Balitimore,MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1987). Ancestry($); ; . Abstracted from newspaper marriage and death columns.

Birth
Substitute Birth Records


 * See Town Clerks' Registers of Men who Served in the Civil War in Clinton County in the Civil War section of Military for birth information.

Marriage
Substitute Marriage Records

Death
Substitute Death Records


 * See Town Clerks' Registers of Men Who Served in the Civil War in Clinton County in the Civil War section of Military for death information.


 * 1849-50, 1859-60, 1869-70, and 1879-80 See Mortality Schedule information in the Federal Census section of Census for death information for 1849-50, 1859-60, 1869-70, and 1879-80.

Divorce
Additional Resources

Websites

 * The Clinton County NYGenWeb Project, an member of The NYGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Clinton County.
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Clinton County. (Mirror site)