Oswego County Bulletin
 

 June 2005  

As editor of The Genealogical Journal of Oswego County, New York since 2002 (as well as a newsletter for Jefferson County and for Oneida County), editor Patricia R. James (Pat) compiles this online Bulletin containing items found along her route of discovery that don't fit into any of her newsletters.  It is free to all.  Our regular features include:
1. Lost and Found
2. Website WeView
3. Eye-spy
4. Check it out
5.  FYI (For Your Information)

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Of Interest at our website, www.NewYorkAncestry.com: 
At no cost to you, you may view and print out four old/rare books:
     History of the First Baptist Church of Watertown, NY (Jefferson County);

     Old Fort Herkimer Church at German Flatts (Herkimer County);

     Historical Sketch of Hamilton College (Oneida County), and
     The Philorhetorean Society of Fairfield Seminary (Herkimer County). 
This is part of our effort to build an Online Library. 
(Please note: We are not associated nor affiliated in any way with Ancestry.com.)

What’s New to you:
NewYorkAncestry.com has just reprinted in soft-cover, Franklin B. Hough’s “The History of Jefferson County, New York,” originally published in 1854. It’s 600 pages contain a wealth of information including a chapter on each Town.  (See our website for a more complete description.)  As Oswego County borders Jefferson, research in one often leads to research in the other.  Therefore, we are extending a special invitation to those who order this history by Jun 1^st:  Your free gift will be a (separate) coil-bound index that contains 175 pages of over 7000 everyname entries and 4 appendices.  (The original abbreviated index of this book is a mere 11 pages!)  --  The total price for you Early Birds will be $35.00 plus shipping of $8.00. 
Attention: When ordering, do not order the Index – just the History.  I will recognize you as an ‘Early Bird.’  For those of you who don’t like to order over the internet, please feel free to call us at: 1-208-382-3629 (best bet to reach us) or 1-208-866-3888 (cell).

Coming Attractions:
Sometime this year, NewYorkAncestry.com will be opening up a new and unique line of research for genealogists: a searchable online everyname index (including page numbers) of rare/ old/ out-of-print NY genealogy / history books.  (A more complete description can be read below at “5. FYI.”) If and when you have a moment, we have a few questions at the end of this newsletter. By responding to our questionnaire found at the end of this email, we will send you a free issue of our Oswego newsletter.

                                              ~ Now to our regular features ~

1. Lost & Found – While researching in Salt Lake City’s Family History Library last month, I was browsing in the Ontario, Canada section and ran across a work entitled: “Born in the USA; Married in Canada, 1869-1879.”  (Published in 2000. Warren Kingsbury, author.  Address: 8 Bearbrook Rd., Ottowa, Ontario, Canada K1B 3H9.) This 208 page work does not yet appear in the FHL’s Family Search.com online library catalog!  Basically, it’s a finding aid that helps locate your ancestor’s marriage information contained in the first ten years of Ontario, Canada’s national vital statistics if he/she was born in the US.  As you might suspect, most of the entries are of spouses born in the northern-most counties of New York.  Information given is: Name, Age, Birthplace, Father, Mother, Spouse, Date Married, Volume #, Registration #.  The author has conveniently provided a list of film numbers that correspond to the Canadian registration numbers and volumes.  Using this research aid is much quicker than running through the films!  Here’s a couple of examples of Oswego born Canadian spouses:

Stewart BABCOCK, age 22, b. Oswego, s/o John and Ellen (KELLEY) Babcock, married Martha Maria SILVER on May 12, 1874.  Reg # 001068 – 74.

Edward Johnson CHAMBERS, age 27, b. Oswego, s/o William and Jane,
married Sarah Evaline CARR on Dec 4, 1876.  Reg # 013536 – 76.

2. Website WeView – Northern NY Library Network: www.NNYLN.org
This network of eight northern counties – including Oswego – provides support and services to the researcher in the form of three major indexes:
Repository, Subject and Location. 
These are accessible by clicking the “Publications” link on the Home Page. 
At that page, next, click on “Archival Directory.”

     The Repository Index provides the public access to a listing of ‘libraries’ with document collections.  Some libraries (museums, Town historian collections, etc.) have substantial holdings (such as college libraries) whereas others are small town facilities.  The total number of ‘libraries’ in all eight counties is approximately 305.  Of them, 54 are of Oswego County.
     The Subject Index is divided into 8 ‘pages’ and covers such subjects as: cemetery records, church records, early settlers, genealogical files, newspapers, school records, scrapbooks, vital statistics, and much more.  For instance, if you wanted to know more about which libraries had genealogical files, you’d click on that link and a list of such facilities would appear.
     The Location Index contains a brief description of each library, etc. and what it has to offer.  For Oswego County, there are over 50 such ‘repositories.’  The following is an example --

3.  Eye Spy - books found at www.ABE.com featuring rare (out-or-print or otherwise valuable) books that have a genealogical or historical interest re: Oswego County.  A more detailed description of the following titles is found at the end of this Bulletin.

4.  Check it out – a brief summary of additions to NewYorkAncestry.com.  
Each of these newsletter issues is of 24 pages, 8.5” x 5.5”
You may ask for a free sample issue to be sent to your postal address.
 
The Genealogical Journal of Oswego County, New York for Jan 2005    
              (An index of surnames for this issue is at the end of this email.) 
     Articles are:
            “Newsletter Index to the Oswego Watchman, 1995-1998”
            “Church Records: Contributors to the Methodist Episcopal Missionary Fund, 1867”
            “Grips’ Historical Souvenir for Phoenix: Part 1: A Table of Contents”
            “Newspaper Records: Universalist Marriages, Part 1”
            “History: The Blind Trail”
The Genealogical Journal of Oswego County, New York for May 2005    
            “History: Silas Town – Spy”
            “Born in the USA; Married in Canada, 1869-1879”
            “Newspaper Records: Universalist Marriages, Part 2”
            “Grips’ Historical Souvenir for Phoenix: Part 2: Members of Assembly”
            “Military Perspectives: Oswego Men in Canada’s Patriot War”
The Genealogical Journal of Jefferson County, New York for April 2005
          “Net Research: Northern NY Library Network,” 
          “Newspaper Records: Universalist Marriages, Part 1” 
           “Criminal Court Records, 1833,”
           “Born in the USA: Married in Canada, 1869-1879”  (Jefferson County)
          “Drum Taps in Dixie.”

Each of the above is $4.00 per issue (plus $.50 postage.).  A yearly subscription is $10.00 (plus $1.50 postage.) You can order an item just by sending us an email.  Put "Purchase Order" in the subject line of the email and tell us what you’d like.  Be sure to include your postal address.


5.  FYI – As you’ve probably discovered along your genealogical wanderings, it was not customary in the 1800’s to include a comprehensive, everyname index at the end of history books.  As a result, many worthy publications are skipped by today’s family historian because it’s just too time consuming to do more than glance through them.  We’re building a searchable online everyname index (including page numbers) will be of old/rare publications such as school catalogs, church commemorative booklets, town histories, court cases, a diary written by a neighbor, business account registers, family histories, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and various other types of secondary source records.  Upon learning that your ancestor’s name is found in a particular work and by accessing it, you’ll at the least know he was in a certain place at a certain time.  You’ll also learn something of his/her personality / beliefs, etc. - in effect, piecing together the history of his / her life.

We’d like your input in assessing the value of this index to researchers.  By taking a moment to answer these three questions, we’ll send you a complimentary issue (by way of our appreciation) of The Genealogical Journal of Oswego County, New York.  When answering by email, please include your postal mail address and an Oswego surname that you research.  Where possible, we will send you an issue relative to your research.)

1. Have you ever subscribed to a paid subscription genealogical website such as Ancestry.com?
2. Would a website that indexes secondary sources (such as those listed above) be worth a subscription to you? 
3. What would be the value of such if you were to subscribe?
     a. $4.95 month    b. $12.50 quarter    c. $19.95 half-year    d. $37.50 year
     e. none of the above (please comment on reason)

Any additional comments are most welcome.  Thank you for your participation!!!
Sincerely,
     Pat and Rex James
     www.NewYorkAncestry.com

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Surnames to the January 2005 issue of
“The Genealogical Journal of Oswego County, New York.” 

ADAMS, AIKIN, ALGER, ALLEN, ALLEN, ALTHOUSE, AMES, AMES, ANDERSON, ARMSTRONG, ATKINS, AVERY, AVERY, AYRE, BABCOCK, BAILEY, BAIRD, BAKER, BALDWIN, BALLARD, BANCROFT, BAPTISTE, BARNARD, BARROTT, BATES, BEEBY, BENNET, BENNETT, BENNETT, BERRY, BETTIS, BETTS, BIGSBY, BILLHARDT, BISHOP, BOEW, BOGART, BOOTHBY, BORT, BOWE, BOYEN, BRADLEY, BREED, BRIGGS, BROOKINS, BROWER, BROWN, BURROWS, BUTS, BUTTS, CADWELL, CAMPBELL, CATHCART, CHAMPION, CHAPMAN, CHESEBOR, CHESEBRO, CHURCH, CHUSHING, CLARK, CLAYTON, COE, CONGDON, CONGER, CONRAD, COON, COOPER, CUMMINGS, CURTIS, CURTISS, DANO, DIEFENDORF, DINES, DOBSON, DOMINICH, DRIGGS, DUNHAM, EDWARDS, ELMER, ELMORE, ETHRIDGE, EVERTS, FITCH, FLINT, FOX, FRALIC, GILBERT, GLODE, GOODWIN, GOULD, GRAVES, GREGG, GREGORY, GRUMAN, HALL, HALL, HARRINGTON, HART, HASTINGS, HAYDEN, HEATON, HOISINGTON, HOLMES, HOOSE, HOPSON, HOWARD, HOYT, HUBBARD, HUESTED, HUNTINGTON, HURST, HUTCHINSON, INGERSOLL, JESSU[, JOHNSON, JONES, JOYCE, KANE, KEENEY, KEITH, KILLAM, LADD, LAMOTT, LATHAM, LEE, LEIS, LILLEY, LOOMIS, LUCE, LUDINGTON, MALLORY, MARSDEN, MATTHEWS, MAYNARD, MILLER, MORRISON, MOYER, NAMES, NEWTON, O'BRIEN, OLIVER, ORVIS, OSBORN, PALMER, PARKER, PARKER, PARMELEE, PATTERSON, PECKHAM, PENFIELD, PIGUET, REED, RICHARDS, ROBBINS, ROFD, ROGERS, ROLAND, ROOD, ROSS, RUNDELL, RUSS, RUST, SAMPSON, SCHOLE, SELKIRK, SHERPHERD, SIVER, SKINNER, SMITH, SPARROW, SPONENBERG, SPOOR, STARR, STEBBINS, STEVENS, STONE, SURDAM, SURDAM, SWEET, TAYLOR, TELFORD, THOMAS, TOWN, TRAKEY, TRYON, TULL, TYLER, VAN RENSSELAER, VANHOSEN, VICKERY, WALKER, WALTERS, WALTON, WARING, WARNER, WATERBURY, WEED, WELLS, WETMORE, WHITNEY, WILLIS, WILSON, WOOD, WOOLMAN, WORDEN, WORTH, WRIGHT, YOUMANS.

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