Genealogy Resources available at
Warsaw Public Library
on our local history/genealogy shelf:
-1841 History of Wyoming County, New York: With Illustrations, 1880
-A Complete Name Index To the 1841 History of Wyoming County New York with Illustrations, 1880
-Gazetteer of the State of New York (1860)
-History of Holland Purchase
-History of Warsaw New York, 1869
-Historical Wyoming, 1947-present, various indexes, bound
-The Warsaw Centennial
-Western New Yorker and Country Courier, 1836-present microfilm
-Wyoming County New York,: An Architectural Tour
-Wyoming County 1870 Directory

We have many Genealogy manuals to check out. They can be found on our local History/Genealogy shelf. You can also browse our History Room collection using OWWL Access, our online catalog.

Instructions: log on to http://owwl.pls-net.org/
Click the OWWL Access link, then click Advanced Search, and choose Warsaw Public Library in the Library box and History Room in the Location box, then click the Search button.

Resources available in the Warsaw Community

Wyoming County Historian's Office
26 Linwood Ave., Warsaw, NY 14569
585-786-8818
Hours 9:00-5:00 weekdays
Doris Bannister, County Historian

-Cemetery/Census book
-Genealogy File
-Subject File
-War File (Revolutionary, Civil, etc.)
-County History- Beer's 1880
-1870 County Directory
-Wyoming Co. Probate 1841-1900
-Turner's Pioneer History, 1849
-History of Phelps and Gorhams Purchase, 1951
-N.Y.S. Gazetteer 1860-French's
-Janet Foley-Early Settler's of NY
-Biographical Review- Livingston and Wyoming Co.
-Church History (founding and local churches info.)
-Newspapers on microfilm beginning at 1836

Wyoming County Surrogate's Court
Located across the street from Warsaw Public Library.
Phone: 786-3148 Resources: wills, probate, administrative records

Warsaw Town/Village Clerks' Offices
Both located on the west side of Main St. south of the library. Resources: Vital Records 786-2800

Warsaw Town Historian: Suzenne Miller 786-2800

Warsaw Historical Society
Gates House, 15 Perry Ave.
Phone: 786-5240
Hours: M-F 10 am-12am

Family History Center
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
286 Linwood Ave., Warsaw
Phone: 585-786-5661
Hours: T,W,Th,Sat 10am-2pm; W,Th 7pm-9pm
Resources: cemetery records, census collection from several areas of NYS, 1790-1930 State and Federal census extract forms, various census forms from other countries, Social Security Death Index, Family Search -International Genealogical Index, Family History Library Catalog, Freedman’s Bank Records, Internet access to genealogical web sites