Where might you find historical records?
Sterling Cemeteries
Cayuga County GenWeb Project – Cemeteries
Find A Grave .com
Cayuga County Clerk – 160 Genesee Street, Auburn, NY 13021 – 315-253-1271
Property Deeds
Mortgages
Cayuga County Records Retention Center – 12 Court Street, Auburn, NY 13021 – 315-253-1037
Wills
Estate/Probate Records
Fair Haven Village Clerk –315-947-5112
Marriage Licenses after 1880
Birth Certificates after 1880
Death Certificates after 1880
Marriage Licenses
Birth Certificates after 1880
Death Certificates after 1880
Marriage Records
Birth Records
Death Records
SUNY Oswego Penfield Library
History of the State of New York in 10 volumes, 1933-1937
Federal Records
U.S. Postmasters – Ancestry.com
Free Genealogy
Syracuse Public Library – Genealogy Library
Onondaga Genealogy Library, Syracuse, New York
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Resources that were once available and can hopefully be located again some day.
North Fair Haven Docs Accounts 1905-1918
Journal record of all shipments from the coal trestle. Gives dates, name of vessel, name of captain, consignee, port of consignment, and amount of coal shipped.
Was in possession of Mrs. John Brown at North Fair Haven about 1942 according to the bibliography in Commerce of the Port of Fair Haven, New York 1870-1936 by Edgar Denton III
Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War 1849
Regarding the development of the port at Fair Haven.
Reports of Lighthouse Board, U. S. Department of Commerce and Labor, 1870-1872
Regarding construction of lighthouse and lightkeeper’s house.
State of New York Railroad Commission Annual Reports
1850 – 1983 or whichever years they exist
State of New York – State Engineer and Survey Annual Reports
1810 – 1983 or whichever years they exist
Fair Haven Register – Issues not on microfilm
Files in the office of the Fair Haven Register in Fair Haven about 1942 according to the bibliography in Commerce of the Port of Fair Haven, New York 1870-1936 by Edgar Denton III
Historical Atlas of the Great Lakes and Michigan
Louis C. Karpinski, Lansing: Michigan Historical Commission, 1931.
Books and Publications
Stark’s History of Cayuga County, 1879