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Contents 1 Orange County New York 2 Long Island 3 Finch 4 Pennsylvania 5 Virginia 6 Gossett 7 Brooklyn and NY city 8 Irish Ancestry 9 Veterans grave records 10 Pa/Hess= 11 Illinois 12 England 13 Misc 14 Lists of sources 15 Search tools 16 Martha's vineyard 16.1 Testing ancestry links

Orange County New York

• Eager: An outline history of Orange County : with an enumeration of the names of its towns, villages, rivers, creeks, lakes, ponds, mountains, hills and other known localities and their etymologies or historical reasons therefor ; together with local traditions and short biographical sketches of early settlers, etc. by Samuel Watkins Eager (1789-1860) , 1789-1860, published 1846, Newburgh : S.T. Callahan, https://archive.org/details/outlinehistoryof01eage

• Eager Index: Index to Eager's history of orange county by Lillie O Estabrook (1867-aft.1900), Pages 48. https://gengophers.com/book.html#/book/68481?page=17 or https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/468864-index-to-eager-s-history-of-orange-county-new-york?offset=4

• Chapman: Portrait and biographical record of Orange county, New York, Containing portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county. Together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States by Chapman publishing company, New York, Chicago, pub. [from old catalog], date 1895, https://archive.org/details/portraitbiograph00c

• Penney: Ketcham family history; the descendants of John Ketcham and his wife Sarah Matthews of Mt. Hope Township (one time known as Deerpark, later Calhoun, and finally Mt. Hope) Orange County, N.Y by Electa Jenette (Ketcham) Penney (1855-1932), Publication date 1954, https://archive.org/details/ketchamfamilyhis00penn/page/1/mode/1up

• Ruttenbur: https://archive.org/details/cu31924028832693/page/519/mode/1up

Mount hope section starts page 505. Citation: Page 519 in Mount Hope section on civil war in book History of Orange County New York by Edward Manning Ruttenbur (1825-1907); Clark, L. H. (Lewis H.), Publication date 1881, Publisher Philadelphia : Everts & Peck Also two other books by him.

• Ketcham by Ketcham: Descendants of Edward Ketcham for eight generations by John Marshall Ketcham

https://web.archive.org/web/20070820171146/http://www.ketchamfamily.org/ Older version https://web.archive.org/web/20010720105954/http://fp-www.wwnet.com/~jketcham/ His Ketcham line: Lewis George Ketcham (1918-1990)

• Stork: Ketcham Kables Collection Presents the Known Descendants of Edward Ketcham/Catchum/Cetcham. United States: Ginger Ketchum Stork, 1998.

Have been unable to obtain above book, it is referenced by John Marshall Ketcham

• Long Island surnames https://www.longislandsurnames.com/getperson.php?personID=I2769&tree=Austin

• Seversmith: Colonial families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut : being the ancestry & kindred of Herbert Furman Seversmith ... by Herbert Furman Seversmith (1909-1967) , 1939, https://archive.org/details/colonialfamilies04seve/page/n5/mode/2up

See page 1714+ https://archive.org/details/colonialfamilies04seve/page/1714/mode/2up Seversmith, Herbert Furman. Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut: Being the ancestry & kindred of Herbert Furman Seversmith (Washington, D.C., 1939) Vol. , [ Page ].

• Mapes family record (periodical) The Family Record

• This bio contains some additional Mapes resources https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Mapes-1120

• Ham, Frank Mapes: family group record on page 291 of The Mapes Family in America edited by Frank Mapes Ham (1891-1970), (pub.1962). United States: Mapes Family Association. http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idviewer/437448/292 Mapes Family in America.

• Chance: The Ketcham/Ketchum family in America, 1635-1991 : descendants of Nathaniel Ketcham of Huntington, Long Island, and of Nathaniel Ketchum of Norwalk, Connecticut by Chance, Dorothy Jane, 1924-, published 1991, Gateway Press, page 4-5, https://archive.org/details/ketchamketchumfa00chan/page/4/mode/2up : accessed 21 May 2022

• Headley: The History of Orange county, New York, Russel Headley (1852-1934), pub.1908 page 874-875 https://archive.org/details/historyoforangec00head_0/page/n1123/mode/1up?q=Ketcham or https://www.gutenberg.org/files/49260/49260-h/49260-h.htm

• Foley: Early Settlers of New York State, Their Ancestors and Descendants

• Hawkins: book: A Hawkins genealogy by Ralph Clymer Hawkins (1897-1988)

• Morton: History of Highland County Virginia by Oren Frederick Morton (1857-abt.1926)

• Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society

• Collections of the New-York Historical Society

• Some orange county vicinity cemetery notes https://web.archive.org/web/20040421080209/http://www.geocities.com/jf_game/cemeteries.html

Long Island

• Southold genealogy errata https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~riss/genealogy/ny/southold/myths_discoveries/hallock.html
• 1686 Census of Southold, New York
  • https://archive.org/details/newyorkgenealog30gree/page/n270/mode/1up

Finch

• Descendants of John Finch of Connecticut , Thummel, Claude B., b. 1885, https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/524510/?offset=&return=1#page=1&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q= or https://gengophers.com/book.html#/book/76894?page=609&given=Coe&surname=Finch
  • Pg 212 James, Zophar, Coe , John
  • Pg 214 Solomon and letters
  • pg 396 Zophar and Coe b1824 (labeled pg 596)
  • Pg 397 Coe b1804 + Coe b 1824
  • Ph 398 James Manning letter and John letter following
  • pg 602 Coe b1832
  • Pg 398 John
  • Pg 399 Coe b 1837
  • Pg 396 https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/524510/?offset=&return=1#page=403&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q=
  • Pg 602 https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/524510/?offset=&return=1#page=609&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q=
  • Pg 212 https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/524510/?offset=&return=1#page=218&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q=

• https://gengophers.com/book.html#/book/79395?page=263&given=Coe&surname=Finch Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs : a record of achievements of the people of the Hudson and Mohawk valleys in New York state included within the present counties of Albany, Rensselaer, Washington, Saratoga, Montgomery, Fulton, Sche; Vol. 04, Author Reynolds, Cuyler, b. 1866
• Coe Finch Austin https://gengophers.com/book.html#/book/7308?page=82&given=Coe&surname=Finch https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/family/LWXX-7K1 botanist https://gengophers.com/book.html#/book/31788?page=133&given=Coe&surname=Finch
• pg 507 https://gengophers.com/book.html#/book/34891?page=102&given=Coe&surname=Finch History of Orange County, New York : with illustrations and biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men V.2, Author Ruttenber, Edward Manning

Pennsylvania

Lancaster history

• https://unchartedlancaster.com/2020/11/30/the-history-of-manor-township-as-recorded-in-the-1875-historical-atlas-of-lancaster-county/
• https://unchartedlancaster.com/2020/11/24/major-evert-and-his-1875-historical-atlas-of-lancaster-county/
• https://unchartedlancaster.com/2020/11/30/the-history-of-manor-township-as-recorded-in-the-1875-historical-atlas-of-lancaster-county/

Virginia

• Pugh, Maud. Capon Valley. Its Pioneers and Their Descendants, 1698 to 1940. United States, Genealogical.com, 2009. Volume ii, page 217-218 http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idviewer/214343/224

Gossett

• Frank Gossett https://web.archive.org/web/20001203101500/http://members.surfsouth.com/~fgossett/index.htm
• Kim Hughes site on Milton Gossett, includes annotated Newcomer book https://web.archive.org/web/20091020095610/http://geocities.com/Heartland/Hollow/9076/index.html
• The Family of Gossett by Newcomer https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:The_Family_of_Gossett_by_Newcomer

Brooklyn and NY city

• https://www.italiangen.org/databases/
• Groom, bride index search https://stevemorse.org/vital/nymarriages-igg.html

• Rootsweb resources for ny marriage
  • Marriage laws in NY https://web.archive.org/web/20030201173100/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blkyn/Marriage/marr.info.html
  • A-z crowdsourced list https://web.archive.org/web/20030414014656/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blkyn/Marriage/Marr.index.html
  • Assorted marriage https://web.archive.org/web/20030216133547/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blkyn/paper.trails.Marr.html
• Paper trails general Brooklyn page https://web.archive.org/web/20030624175001/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blkyn/Bklyn.Info.Page.html

Irish Ancestry

• Irish civil And Church records https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/civil-search.jsp

• Irish census records http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/

• Belfast cemetery search https://dof.belfastcity.gov.uk/burialsearch/BurialSearch.aspx?GraveSection=D1&GraveNumber=195&CemeteryName=Dundonald%20Cemetery

Veterans grave records

• VA grave locator https://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/ngl/
• VA daily burial schedule https://www.cem.va.gov/dailyburialschedule/

Pa/Hess=

• Hess homestead https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hess_Homestead
• Theres also this that references deeds for Christian and Magdalena Hershey

https://www.lancasterhistory.org/finding-aids/herr-neff-andkauffman-family-manor-twppapers/

• Pg 287 Hershey marriages https://archive.org/details/genealogyhistory00kauf/page/287/mode/1up Other good stuff likely in here

Illinois

• Veterans search https://apps.ilsos.gov/isaveterans/civilmustersrch.jsp
• Adjutant general report, Illinois, Vol I. 1861-1866. Starts with general discussion, listed of organizations, then the regiments starting with 1st infantry, goes to veteran's battalion 14th and 15th infantry. https://archive.org/details/reportofadjutantv1illi
• Adjutant general report, Illinois, Vol II. 1861-1866. Starts with 16th infantry, goes to 35th. https://archive.org/details/reportofadjutantv2illi
• Adjutant general report, Illinois, Vol III. 1861-1866. Starts with 36th infantry, goes to 55th. https://archive.org/details/reportofadjutantv3illi
• Adjutant general report, Illinois, Vol IV. 1861-1866. Starts with 56th infantry, goes to 77th. https://archive.org/details/reportofadjutantv4illi
• Adjutant general report, Illinois, Vol V. 1861-1866. Starts with 78th infantry, goes to 105th. https://archive.org/details/reportofadjutantv5illi/page/n7/mode/2up
• Adjutant generals report, Illinois, Vol VI. 1861-1866. Starts with the 106th infantry. Ends with 131st consolidated. https://archive.org/details/reportadjutantg01vancgoog
• Adjutant generals report, Illinois, Vol VII. Contains 132nd infantry to 156th (one year) infantry, then 1st cavalry thru 5th. https://archive.org/details/reportofadjutantv7illi/page/n5/mode/2up
• Adjutant general report, Illinois, Vol VIII. 1861-1866. Starts with 6th cavalry, goes to 17th. Then lists artillery, battery, and regular army recruits. https://archive.org/details/reportofadjutantv8illi
• Adjutant generals report, Illinois, Vol 9?. Black Hawk and Mexican Wars I https://archive.org/details/reportofadjutantv9illi

• Listed as father of Elizabeth Bell Bennett on page 121 of Book: Among the Hills, 1806-1982: Descendants of Thomas and Rosanna (Young) Hills by Joyce Madlem and Carole Burris http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idviewer/138861/130 from FamilySearch accessed 3 March 2023

England

• Katie's guide to English sources for WikiTree

Misc

• https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/maxey/1465/ Edith Maxey

Lists of sources

• list managed by Rick Pierpont: Category-Source

Search tools

• One step Search tools https://stevemorse.org/index.html
• Genealogy gophers

https://gengophers.com

• Google books http://books.google.com
• Archive.org and openlibrary.org

Martha's vineyard

• Martha's vineyard Intelligencer
  • Index

https://mvmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IndexIntelligencer.pdf

• • Tocs https://mvmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Journal-TOCs.pdf
  • Folder Aug 1959 to Nov 1989 https://mvmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/
  • Folder Feb 1990 to Fall 2011 https://mvmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/

Testing ancestry links

• http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=inmarr1880&h=2842549&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
• http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1830usfedcenancestry&h=261280&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
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• Ancestry Record 1830usfedcenancestry #261280
• https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/261280:1830usfedcensus