Jefferson County Bulletin
                                         
February 2004  

What's New at our website, www.NewYorkAncestry.com:  At no cost to you, you may view and print out the 110 page book, the History of the First Baptist Church of Watertown, NY published in 1890.  This is part of our new effort to build an Online Library. We hope to upload a (rare) book per month.

As editor of The Genealogical Journal of Jefferson County, New York, Pat (Patricia R. James) is introducing a free online bulletin of items she's found along her route of discovery that don't fit into her "no frills" newsletter.  Such would include:

1. Lost & Found - miscellaneous vital records found in out-of-the-way places.  Example:
    Isaac BURRELL, b. Belkville (sp), Jefferson Co., New York 12 July 1826
                                d. 20 July 1855 Gibsonville, California
    This appeared under the heading: New Yorkers Buried in Now-Abandoned California Cemeteries" in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 117, p. 218, 1986.

    Henry WARD, Jr., son of Henry and Susan R. WARD, was born in Mannsville, N.Y. on the 17th of February, 1841... On the 7th of January, 1868, (he) married Mame E. SMITH, daughter of George and Sarah SMITH, of Clayton, Jefferson Co., N.Y.  At the age of 18, he entered Hamilton College with the class of 1862.  He enlisted as a private in the 10th N.Y. Artillery on the 28th of July, 1862; was wounded at Petersburg; spent time in Libby Prison. He was a newspaper editor by profession.  In 1872, he was living in Black Hawk, Colorado.  (Hamilton College, Class of 1862, p. 78.)         

2.  Website WeView - websites possibly influencing your Jefferson County researcher.  
    Example: 
    Surnames of Ontario, website address: www.geneofun.on.ca/ongenweb/surnames
    Many of us have relations that relocated across the Canadian border in Leeds and
    Grenville County in Ontario. It's worth a shot to visit the Ontario GenWeb site - I found
    a person who hosts a website for one of my surnames.  Exciting! 

3.  Eye Spy - books found at websites featuring rare (out-or-print or otherwise valuable) books that have a  genealogical or historical Jefferson County slant.  Examples:

4.  What's New - brief summary of additions to NewYorkAncestry.com. 
    Example:  The Genealogical Journal of Oneida County, New York for 2003
                    The Genealogical Journal of Jefferson County, New York for 2004
                            time to renew your subscriptions
                    The Genealogical Journal of Oswego County, New York for 2004   
                            time to renew your subscriptions

5.  FYI - New finds, publications, etc. appearing on the Jefferson County genealogy scene.  Example:
William Richard Cutter's "Genealogical and Family History of Northern New York" was published in 1910.  A massive 3 volume work, it includes much information of No. NY families sometimes going back to the 1600's when the first immigrants landed in America.  These No. NY families lived in the Oneida, Jefferson, St. Lawrence, Oswego, Lewis, and Herkimer counties.  It does have an index but there's a catch.  The names in the index are almost exclusively male names!  They are only the names which headed each paragraph.  In other words, while the (maiden) names of the wives were given, they did not find their way into the index!  We (New York Ancestry) have undertaken to index all maiden names and other names (those surnames imbedded in the paragraphs which are not the same as the lead name). Within the next 6 months, we'll have those names online for you.  That's our plan!

6.  Comments - a chance for you to add your voice. 

The plan is to send this bulletin out quarterly. 
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