Research Room
What is available within Orange
County Genealogical Society's research room:
(*) identifies items which
may be purchased in person or by mail
Equipment:
(no coins needed, pay 10 cents per page
when you leave)
Two copiers, all of which enlarge
and reduce
Two Minolta digitized
microfilm/microfiche readers each with a laser printer
One Windows XP computer, with:
- over
40 Family Tree Maker databases (and a master index)
- over
150 CD-ROM's including 1880 census of entire US
- access to the internet (sorry, no online subscriptions such as
Ancestry.com)
General:
A master surname index of books and
folders
A Bibliography of our holdings.
An index of where to find cemetery information in the research room, and
maps
Books about Orange County:
Orange County histories
(Eager, Headley, Ruttenber & Clark) (all*)
Portrait & Biographical Record (*)
Pioneer Families of Orange County
(*)
Genealogical History of Blacks in
Orange County (6 vol (*)
Early Orange County will
abstracts (1787-1830) (*)
Orange County church records (limited)
Orange County cemetery listings
(varied)
City directories - Middletown &
area 1899-1952 (some missing)
City directories - Newburgh &
area 1899-1956 (some missing)
Whig Press Deaths 1851-1865 (*)
Whig Press Marriages 1851-1865 (*)
(see
also list of books for sale, all of which are on our shelves)
Published Genealogies:
Family genealogies
almost 500, with over 335 unique surnames
Vertical Files:
Family folders - over a
3,000 hanging folders, with
information received from many sources, filed by surname
(over 3,000 unique surnames)
The Elizabeth Horton collection (over
1,100 surnames)
The Helen
Predmore collection (almost
500 surnames)
The Myrtle Edwards collection (over
2,000 folders now integrated
into the
family
folders by surnames) the above 3 ladies were paid researchers; now
deceased)
Their working papers do not exist anywhere else
in the world
The Florence Tate collection (recently deceased
historian) (on microfilm)
The Dab Burrows collection (Dan's still very much alive;
one of our key volunteers)
Well-known quarterlies (OCGS
has every issue):
The American Genealogist (sorry, no
master index)
NY Genealogical & Biographical
Record master
index on CD-ROM)
New England Historical &
Genealogical Register
volumes
1-148 on microfilm, with printed index)
Connecticut
Nutmegger + index of vol 1-28
Military:
Index to Revolutionary War Service
Records (set)
Abstracts of
Revolutionary War Pension Records (set)
New York in the Revolution as
Colony and State
DAR Patriot Index, centennial edition
New York Soldiers in the Civil War
(showing units)
New York in the War of the
Rebellion (set)
Roll of Honor (set) (Civil War)
Histories of several local Civil
War regiments
Index to Mexican War Pension Files
Maps:
1850 maps of Orange County (in 4
quadrants) (*)
These maps are large and very
detailed, with names of farmers.
14 other maps (*) (see publications
for sale)
Mayflower:
All 34 volumes of "Mayflower
Descendant", indexed
Mayflower Source Records
Mayflower "Increasings",
"Births & Deaths", "Marriages", "Deeds"
New England:
New England Marriages, by Torrey
Genealogical Dictionary of New
England, by Savage
The Great Migration Begins
English Origins of New England
Families
CT
Genealogies of Connecticut Families (3 vol)
CT Genealogy
& Family History of Connecticut (4 vol;
partial index)
RI -
Genealogies of Rhode Island Families
Other states:
NJ - Abstracts of Wills 1670-1817
(13 vol) (indexed in 3
vol)
NJ - Genealogies of New Jersey
Families (2 vol)
NJ - Early Germans of New Jersey
NJ - Marriage Records 1665-1800
NJ - Newspaper Extracts 1704-1782
PA - Genealogies of Pennsylvania
Families
PA - Pennsylvania Vital Records
PA - Pennsylvania Church Records
PA - Biographical Record of
Northeast Pennsylvania, with new index
Microfilm:
New England Historical &
Genealogical Report, volumes 1 to 148
with
printed indexes)
Federal censuses of Orange &
adjacent counties, 1790 to 1880,
with
printed indexes), 1900-1930
1880 Soundex
census of New York State
we
also have the 1880 census index on CD-ROM)
State censuses of Orange &
adjacent counties 1825-1875,
by
town, no index)
Mortality schedules 1850-1880 NY &
NJ
Index of wills and probate
records at Orange County surrogate court 1787-1941
Town clerk civil war reports for
most of NY state
Tax assessment rolls for most of
NY state, 1799-1804 era
Orange County marriages 1908-1932,
with index
Orange County court minutes
1727-1856
Index of
Naturalization/Citizenship:
Declarations 1802-1900
Petitions 1827-1903
Index of Orange County deeds:
Grantors 1703-1891
Grantees 1703-1891
Index of Orange County mortgages:
Mortgagors 1703-1869
Mortgagees 1703-1869
Newspapers (microfilm on loan from
County Historian)
Goshen Independent
Republican 1813-1957
Goshen Democrat 1834-1933
Walden Citizen Herald
1916-1925
Cornwall
Local/Reflector/Record 1880-1909
Warwick Advertiser 1882-1981
Warwick Valley Dispatch
1924-1930
Newburgh Free Library
Alsdorf scrapbook vol
I-XV
Referral cards:
Hundreds of 3x5 surname cards with addresses of
people researching those surnames,
submitted by members and non-members.