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JEFFERSON
Genealogical
and Historical Societies
We have a whole separate page for Jefferson County organizations!
Click here.
Jane Ferenzi (JFerentzi@aol.com)
is a member of the Somerset
and Dorset Family History Society. She became interested in the migration
from Dorset, England to the United States in the 1800's. She writes, "A
whole group of people left West Dorset to go to the Adams area beginning in the
early 1830's and they continued to go there for the next hundred years. I
want to do the dissertation for my MA on this migration to Jefferson
county. Early settlers is just what I need.... The Society is
setting up a Dorset Migration Index for anyone born in Dorset who went
anywhere in the world." For more information, visit the Society's
website at: www.sdfhs.org
Helpful
Links and Websites
online and free:
Jefferson County Bulletin
Lost
and Found Bulletin Board
Theodore GEGOUX was a little known painter of great talent who
lived in Watertown in the late 1800's. He eventually moved West and was
commissioned to do the portraits of the mayors of Portland, OR. His
descendant, also named Theodore Gegoux, (ted@gegoux.com)
hosts a website which displays his known works. If you like to go to art
museums, a visit to his website would be well worth your while. www.gegoux.com
Your
Corner
From Leigh Eckmair, librarian at Town of Butternuts, Otsego
County, Gilbertsville Free Library:: "I personally do not have ancestors
in Jefferson County but am working on some Gilbertsville/Town of Butternuts
projects which involve people who moved to the area from Gilbertsville.
There are a log of very interesting early connections." Ms. Eckmair can be
reached at librarian@stny.rr.com.
Publications, etc.
The Jefferson County
Genealogical Society has recently published a book of pedigrees.
"Brand new, with 203 pages of pedigrees plus a five page surname index, it
is available from the Society for $12.00." Send for Volume One by
writing to: 15407 Dixon Rd. Clayton, NY 13624.
The Clintsman Family: Five Generations from 1752. Larry D.
Brooks, author. Published 2003. 5.5" x 8.5", paper, index, 410 pp,
ISBN# 1-58549-888-2. $35.50.
WillowBend Books. (Larry Brooks: xiceman@earthlink.net)
The Clintsman family settled in the New York counties
of Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence. Every Clintsman in the United States
today is descended from Christoph, one of the pioneers of Champion, Jefferson
County, NY. This family history includes 627 people spread over 5 generations.
Female lines include CROWNER and GATES. Chap. 1: Christoph Klinsman,
progenitor; Chap. 2 - 5: generations 2 - 5; Chap. 6: Sources and notes.
"This is a book which deserves a place in libraries specializing in genealogy or
in the history of northern New York state. There is a need for more family
historians with Larry Brooks' thoroughness and drive to see their family
histories through to completion. We will all be richer for the
preservation of these histories." - Norm Young, president of the St. Lawrence
Valley (NY) Genealogy Society.
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