10000 Vital Records of Eastern New York Genealogy Book

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10,000 Vital Records  of Eastern New York
1777-1834
Hardbound    volume  totaling
356
pages. Book is in excellent  condition. Just  what you need for genealogy research.
This is the final volume in a three-volume series  of  vital records drawn from early New York newspapers. This volume focuses on the  interior county of Otsego and on the 300-mile strip comprising the eastern-most  counties of Clinton, Essex, Saratoga, Rensselaer, Albany, Columbia, and "Old  Dutchess," which, prior to 1812, included the territory of present-day Putnam  County.
Records in this volume are drawn from the marriage and  death columns of newspapers published before 1835 in each of the above-named  counties. Bridegrooms and individuals who were the subject of death notices are  listed alphabetically. Marriage officials are identified in the Appendix, while  all others mentioned in the text, such as brides, parents and siblings, are  listed in the index. In many instances, complete details have been  abstracted--place and date of marriage or death, names of relatives, towns of  residence, etc.
Like official records of a later date, the records  abstracted here are "vital" in every sense of the term, the more so since vital  records, as such, did not come into existence until very much later. Hence the  value of this particular volume, as well as of the other two volumes in the  series. The three volumes together, it should be noted, contain 30,000 vital  records drawn from a total of thirty-four newspapers published in twenty-three  communities scattered from one end of the state to the other!
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