Chautauqua County Historian

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Chautauqua County, New York
Surnames/tags: new_york Chautauqua

The Chautauqua County Historian website has a wealth of information.

It is (as of 2020) organized into the following sections: Historian Home, Centennial of Women's Suffrage, Historical County Structure Database, Underground Railroad in Chautauqua County, Town/Village Historians, Bicentennial Biographies, Cemeteries, Church Records, Douglas H Shepard, Lois and Norwood Barris, Historical Agencies, Libraries, WWI Exhibit NYS Archives. Anti-slavery Activists Map. The Douglas H Shepard collection has many historical articles. The Lois and Norwood Barris collection has cemetery records and newspaper information, including death notices.

The website as a whole can be cited, or individual subsections can be cited to provide more detail, as noted below.

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Entire Website source and inline citation examples

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<span id='ChautauquaCountyHistorian'></span>ChautauquaCountyHistorian. ''[[Space:Chautauqua_County_Historian|Chautauqua County Historian]]''

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Church Records source and inline citation examples

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<span id='ChautauquaCountyChurchRecords'></span>ChautauquaCountyChurchRecords. ''[[Space:Chautauqua_County_Historian|''Church Records'']]'' Chautauqua (New York): County Historian, 2011); PDF

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<ref>[[#ChautauquaCountyChurchRecords|ChautauquaCountyChurchRecords]]: NameOfDocument</ref>

Douglas H Shepard collection source and inline citation examples

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<span id='ChautauquaCountyShepardCollection'></span>ChautauquaCountyShepardCollection. ''[[Space:Chautauqua_County_Historian|''Douglas H Shepard'']]'' Chautauqua (New York): County Historian, 2011); PDF

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<ref>[[#ChautauquaCountyShepardCollection|ChautauquaCountyShepardCollection]]: NameOfDocument</ref>

Lois and Norwood Barris collection source and inline citation examples

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<span id='ChautauquaCountyBarrisCollection'></span>ChautauquaCountyBarrisCollection. ''[[Space:Chautauqua_County_Historian|''Lois and Norwood Barris'']]'' Chautauqua (New York): County Historian, 2011); PDF

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<ref>[[#ChautauquaCountyBarrisCollection|ChautauquaCountyBarrisCollection]]: NameOfDocument</ref>

Death notices before 1800 from the Lois and Norwood Barris collection citation example

• Barris, Lois. ''Death notices, 1819-1899, reported in the Fredonia Censor and a few other sources'' 1991. [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/328522-death-notices-1819-1899-reported-in-the-fredonia-censor-and-a-few-other-sources?offset= Death notices 1818-1899]

Available online at this location:

• Chautauqua County Historian https://chqgov.com/county-historian/county-historian

• Chautauqua County Historian Church Records https://chqgov.com/county-historian/church-records

• Chautauqua County Historian Douglas H Shepard Contributions https://chqgov.com/county-historian/douglas-h-shepard

• Chautauqua County Historian Lois and Norwood Barris Contributions https://chqgov.com/county-historian/lois-and-norwood-barris