Posts Tagged ‘Upstate New York Genealogy’

To many of our long time readers and also to our newest friends we want you to be aware of few things that you might find as being a little different on this website and blog.

We have been publishing totally free information about Upstate New York Genealogy on the internet since the 1980′s and will continue to do so.

Our main website at www.UNYG.com does not change much as it is structured in categories that remain relatively static but that do contain just an enormous amount of free data for you to use.

Gloria Waldron Huckle was bitten by the genealogy bug many years ago and while digging into her early Dutch Colonial Roots on the WALDRON Family she became so interested in their history that her passion for history sparked her career as a novelist.

From a recent article in the Glens Falls Post Star newspaper she tells her story to a staff reporter and it is a fun story to follow.

She brings her ancestors and their lives to life with her fictional novels, three of them so far, starting in the 17th century up to more modern times you will see how the families progressed through the generations.

One month ago today, this UNYG Blog posted an article inviting readers to send recommendations of their favorite links to websites or Blogs that have information on Upstate New York Genealogy.

Here are the links that were submitted for July.
All have been checked and are good suggestions.

Fulton History dot com: www.fultonhistory.com

Apple (Charlotte) of Apple’s Tree: http://appledoesntfallfar2.blogspot.com/

Colleen of Orations of OMcHodoy: http://omchorations.blogspot.com/

Thomas of Destination Austin Family: http://destinationaustinfamily.blogspot.com/

Cyndis List: www.cyndislist.com

Linkpendium: www.linkpendium.com

Doris Wheeler’s Family: http://dorisgenealogy.blogspot.com/

NYS Newspaper Project: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/nygcty.htm

Jefferson County, NY, Pioneer Portraits Project: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/jefferson/ppp/

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Many people ask “Where is Upstate New York, and why is it called that?”

The answer is pretty simple. It is generally considered to be all of New York State other than the major metropolitan New York City areas.

For the purposes of this Blog and our main website of Upstate New York Genealogy at www.unyg.com we emphasize Genealogy and Family History Research throughout the whole state starting with Westchester County, north and west.

GenealogyBuff provides dozens of unique quick finding aids for all types of genealogy searching. This website compiles data sites from all over the Internet and presents them in a nice easy to find and searchable format.

GenealogyBuff – Links to thousands of on-line sources for items like; Maps, Immigration, Obits, Marriages, Archives, Personal Announcements, Cemetery Inscriptions, School Yearbooks, Church Records, Census, Court, Land, Probate, Military, Newspapers, and let’s see did I miss anything? What else is there?

Oh, try the handy dandy surname search. Does this website miss some links? Sure, but what it does find is absolutely remarkable, and totally Free! (There’s my favorite word again.)

Some might say, “What the heck is Ephemera?”
Pronounced “eff-em-er-uh” (at least that’s the way I pronounce it.)

Ephemera means an item that relates to the moment. This term is normally applied to just paper, but to some it might also include items of 3 dimensional types, and something that one might hang on to for a keepsake or future reference.

Some of the items that fall into this category are; manuscripts, autographs, letters, diaries, handbills, matchbooks, photographs, broadsides, almanacs, programs, advertisements, funeral cards, posters, newspapers, tax lists, old bill heads, valentines, business cards, and on and on.

This Blog will inform new visitors of the types of materials that will be found on the website of
Upstate New York Genealogy at www.unyg.com.

When you land on the homepage of unyg, you will see across the top some tabs.

The first tab is for the “UNYG Blog” which will bring you to where you are reading this.

The next is a new tab for a “UNYG Store,” which is not yet active, but might be real soon.

The next tab is, “Favorite Links” a collection of links that we started with a couple of years ago, which needs updating.