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Church, Cemetery & Local History Holdings - Rochester Genealogical Society

Contains the digital images of a number of churches and town historians in the Rochester and Monroe County New York area. Approximately 200,000 pages of scans are available online.

Items of Interest from Moore's Rural New-Yorker, 1855-1857

Transcribed items of genealogical and historical interest from three volumes of the weekly agricultural newspaper, Moore's Rural New-Yorker, published in Rochester. Items include marriage and death notices, proceedings of agricultural societies including names of participants and officers, and news reports. Focus is on the Rochester area but some items are from other parts of the US. Blog format searchable by surname. Items will be blogged daily throughout 2012, after which the project will be complete. Not an exhaustive index of said newspapers; look-ups available by e-mail only if requestor knows the date of the event in question.

Monroe County New York Early News

New York State Newspapers on Microfilm - State Library

Records of the Fairport Public Library, Fairport, New York - Rochester Genealogical Society

Index to Fairport Herald (1873-1898) and to Monroe County Mail (1880-1898). The index cards were prepared by the National Youth Administration indexing and copying project ca 1939. The newspapers have been microfilmed and are available at the Fairport, NY public library, and in digital form online at the NYS Historic Newspapers web site: http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org