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Mercy Waring House, Pound Ridge |
Photograph by Gray Williams |
Online Indexes
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Indexes to several of our collections are available online, as well as a listing of recent acquisitions to the library: | |
Collections & Finding Aids
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Holdings available for research on Westchester families
- Scharf's History of Westchester County (colonial - 1886)
- Mackenzie's "Families of the Colonial manor of Philipsburg" (colonial - early 1800's)
- McDonald Papers (Revolutionary Period)
- French's Scrapbook Collection (1880 - 1925)
- Marriage and death notices from Westchester newspapers (1830 - 1875)
- Pelletreau's Early Wills of Westchester (1664 - 1784) and New York Historical Society "Abstract of Wills" (1665 - 1800)
- Genealogy Files (by family name)
- Periodical Index (WCHS holdings - includes NYG&B Record, Connecticut Ancestry, TAG, local Westcheter periodicals)
- Cemetery index (WCHS holdings - 18th-20th century)
- Manuscripts index (WCHS holdings - mostly 19th century)
- The Westchester Historian (WCHS quarterly, published 1925 - current)
- Colonial censuses and Federal censuses, 1790 - 1840, 1850 - 1930
- County almshouse records (ca. 1880 - 1908)
- Orphanage records: Children's Village, Lincoln Hall, Wartburg, Graham-Windham (19th- 20th centuries)
- Church records (microfilmed records of approximately 30 Westchester Churches)
- Other (local histories, published military records, etc.)
