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  • Genealogies, local, regional and New York state histories and historical reference books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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