Local History Resources


Local History


GENEALOGY RESOURCES AVAILABLE AT THE WARSAW PUBLIC LIBRARY 
     Materials available 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 are also found on our local History/Genealogy shelf. You can also browse our History Room collection using the
online catalog.


GENEALOGY RESOURCES AVAILABLE IN THE WARSAW COMMUNITY

Wyoming County Historian's Office
26 Linwood Ave., Warsaw, NY 14569
585-786-8818
Hours 8:30-Noon, 1:00-3:30, Monday through Friday
Doris Bannister, County Historian
     Resources:
  • 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 Offices
Center Street
Phone: 585-786-2800

Warsaw Village Offices
 15 South Main Street
Phone: 585-786-2120
 Warsaw Historical Society
Gates House, 15 Perry Ave.
Phone: 786-5240
Hours: M-F 10 am-2pm

Family History Center
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
286 Linwood Ave., Warsaw
Phone: 585-786-5661
Hours: T, 10am-2pm, W, TH 7pm-9pm, Sat, 10-Noon
     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


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