Gilbertsville Free Library Records available in Local History Collection

Available at all times the library is open

• Genealogies, local, regional and New York state histories and historical reference books
• Selection of Family and Genealogy Files
• Cemetery records [our records are not on-line]
  • town of Butternuts
  • East Guilford
  • town of Guilford
  • Sidney
  • Unadilla
• Funeral Director Records, 1894-1975
• Census Records:
  • on microfilm, Federal 1790 - 1930
  • N.Y. State, 1855-1905
  • Hard copy: 1790 - Conn., Mass., New Hampshire,
  • New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia
  • 1800 - Otsego County
  • 1855, 1865, 1875, Town of Guilford, transcriptions
  • 1855, 1865, 1875, 1892, -Town of Unadilla, transcriptions
  • Transcription & Index for Butternuts Census
    • 1790, 1800, 1810
    • 1820, 1830, 1840
    • 1850, 1855, 1860 Index Only
    • 1865, 1870 Index Only
• Tax Records
  • Microfilm - Otsego County 1799-1803 all townships
• Church Records:
  • Baptist, 1806-1914 (microfilm), Index
  • Episcopal, 1833-1918, Index
  • Methodist-Episcopal, 1848-1923, Index
  • Presbyterian/Congregational, 1797-1932, Index
• School Records
  • Gilbertsville Academy & Collegiate Institute
    • 1814 - 2004
  • School Commission Minutes, 1814-1874, microfilm
  • District School minutes, 1822- 1947, incomplete
  • Year books, Gilbertsville C.S. 1895-1990
  • GMU 1991-2004
  • Mt. Upton Central 1976-1990
• Post cards, Atlases and Maps
• Newspapers: on microfilm:
  • The Morris Chronicle, 1865-1932 [some years missing]
  • The Otsego Journal, 1876-1965
• Revolutionary War veterans information and Civil War veterans information
• Village and Town Structural Inventory forms
  • all village structures and some structures in the township
• Otsego County Board of Representatives, annual reports, 1804-2003
• Additional family, organizational, town, village, and business records, as well as photographs, blueprints and scrapbooks, available by appointment.

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