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GENEALOGY
Individuals or families with ancestors from Tompkins County are welcome to visit our Research Library to peruse our Genealogy Family Files, cemetery records, death and marriage notices, the rest of our collection of county records, directories, and the HistoryForge database which contains City of Ithaca census records from the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition to our other genealogy resources family files are available for research in our Local History Research Library. Individuals interested in researching family histories outside of Tompkins County are encouraged to use the Local History & Genealogy resources compiled by the Tompkins County Public Library. Local Genealogical Resources
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Wondering if we might have a picture of your relative in our Photograph Collections? Search your family name in our 'Identified Individuals Photograph Collection - Finding Aid' to find out! Contact archives@thehistorycenter.net to request specific images.
Genealogy Resources in our Archival Collections
- Family Genealogy Files - Over 2,000 Tompkins County Files
- Identified Individuals Photograph Collection - Tompkins County
- Individual Family Genealogies - Bound volumes
- Obituary Listings - Many newspaper indexes and clippings dating from 1866
- Cemetery Listings - Some cemeteries in Tompkins County, Tompkins County gravestone inscriptions, Some cemeteries of Between-the-lakes country (Portions of Seneca, Schuyler, & Tompkins Counties) by Jesse Howell Finch, Gravestone inscriptions of individual cemeteries
- Deeds and other legal papers
- Death and marriage notices: death and marriage notices 1870-1890 from Tompkins County by Nancy Greene Young; Marriage and Death Notices 1827-1885 from Tompkins County Newspapers by Mary Smith Jackson
- Census Records: 1790 and 1825 abstract of New York State census, 1850 federal census, 1860 and 1870 indexes to federal census
- HistoryForge - Digitized census records for 1900-1940 (City of Ithaca only)
- Ithaca City Directories: 1864-1989 (Ithaca only), 1868, 1872, 1892 (includes other Tompkins County towns)
- Scrapbooks - Over 400
Access to the archival collections is free to all Tompkins County residents, $10/day fee for out of county researchers. Contact our archivist at archives@thehistorycenter.net with any questions about our holdings. Or schedule an appointment in to visit the Research Library.
Beginning on February 17th 2024, the Research Library will be open to walk-in visitors on Saturdays from 10:00-3:00 for limited research access.
Genealogy files, built environment resources, local history books, historic maps and atlases, and browsable photographs will be available for use.
For appointments on other days with complete access to all of The History Center's archival collections, email archives@thehistorycenter.net or call 607-273-8284, x224.
Appointments are strongly encouraged.
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