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this if for future reference only and it pertains to NYS only.

Apparently there was a time when death announcements got published and were the precursor to doing the obit..the announcement let those in the deceased’s social circle and family members that they had passed, it’s stuff you wont probably find in a published obit.There will be a tentative out line of where services may be held (Home,Church and Now I find that the state had provisions for publishing in newspaper the fact that an instrument in writing (will) was going to be proved in surrogate court before the judge to handle the matter. all known next of kin were required to attend, any one younger than 21 were asked to bring their guardian. Not having one or brining one meant you got a court appointed one. Date was established and the notice was printed over a period of weeks.

I have seen other files where creditors/debtors were listed and inventory of real and personal property were generated and values were established….. during the probate process monetary values will accepted, debt may be resolved and outstanding credits will also be finalized…

In the time frame listed above, one must first take into account that this was before record keeping was just starting. In the case of NY, counting people wasn’t there first goal, extabliching at the town and county level who owned various parcels of real property so that taxes levied on the land could be collected from the proper owners-living on the land with a proper deed to show proof of ownership or were absentee owners or lots were unclaimed or no owner could be identified. In NY a state law requiring town clerks (of those towns that had been created) were required from 1799-1804. Having deeds recorded where the original owner lived or at the county clerk’s office was required to be filed. Until recording things became law, if the owner and buyer had a copy of the title to property, and the seller agreed in writing to warrant and defend the buyers ownership of the land in perpetuity.

When the federal census was started 1790 and up through 1840, only the head of household was named. Those with the personso named was M or F and free or slave. It wasn’t until 1850 that that census became to count and name everyone in a given household. Babies young than 1 year old were usually listed as infant.

So between 1790 and 1840 the federal census has the surname of the one who was the head of household. Some censuses were taken by the state on the half decade. For those counties created at the time of the state census. Some have survived and some have not. People moved a lot, I have noticed this movement was basically to “earn there salt” or went to wherever prosperity seemed to have set up shop or where opportunity has beconded

Holland land company records were digitized and now held by the library at SUNY Fredonia NY. They searchable online. It is quite a collection including maps, Deeds can be searched thru Genesee County deeds at family search.org-will be quite a search but may point you in the right direction..hope this helps

this is a story about finding certain answers in a cemetery that became the burial place for the 1st generation immigrants to physical place. Buried by those who used a certain cemetery, usually associated with a Church. The burial/headstones I found were part of St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in East Arcade Wyoming County NY. To honor those of Irish descent in this cemetery, each stone paid homage to the home parish in Ireland, by having this information a researcher doing a family line will have location in Ireland by tracing the home parish location. One can presume that the names listed are the correct one, or the names used in the old country. Not sure how one would find the information online since my discovery was made through the information found at the Church, that the cemetery was used by the communicants of the Church

Census-what you might learn

For NY interested genealogists only

1850 and ’55 census readouts for the town of elbridge, Onondaga County NY

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