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Local Sites:

• Old Forge Library on Crosby Blvd., Old Forge - new website link!
• Official Old Forge Homepage: Lots of information on where to stay and what to do in the Old Forge region!
• Town of Webb Government Link - contact information, Town Board minutes and much more.
• Okara Lakes Property Owners Association Link
• Beaver River Property Owners Association Link
• Town of Webb Parcel Search - includes all current Webb property owners, searchable Name, Tax ID, Street Name, Block location etc. Login with Public Access link.

History Sites

• Old Fulton Post Cards at Fultonhistory.com - FREE Searchable historical newspapers from NYS including: Boonville Herald/Adirondack Tourist (1872-2004), Utica Daily Observer (1848-1989), Utica Daily Press (1882-1987), Lowville Journal& Republican (1900-1940), Watertown Times (1870-1922), and MANY MORE. Old Forge area did not have a weekly newspaper until 1926 (Adirondack Arrow) which is available on microfilm at TOWHA.
• Northern NY Historical Newspapers - Searchable by keyword, includes Lowville, Watertown, Lake Placid, Saranac, Malone and dozens more upstate NY newspapers, all searchable & FREE.
• Library of Congress Advance Search Engine Locate documents, books, diaries, manuscripts using the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections. It is a free-of-charge cooperative cataloging program operated by the Library of Congress
• Center for Life Stories Preservation A great resource for helping people capture their family and community histories
• A Taste of Canada Many links to Canadian History and Genealogy sites
• A Guide to NYS Historical Resources
• NYS Historical Association Research Library
• Native American Studies by Georgetown University
• Library of Congress
• United States History Index at the University of Kansas
• Formation of Counties in NYS - great animated map of the counties, links to early Native Americans & European Settlements
• New York State History Military, State Archives, NYS Museum and NYS Newspaper Project Links
• Historical - Genealogy - Links by APHNYS - Association of Public Historians of NYS

Genealogy Links

For additional help with Town of Webb research, contact the Town of Webb Historical Director or the Town of Webb Historian, Peg Masters. (The following links are off-site and will load in a new window)

• Riverview Cemetery listings at Findagrave.com - searchable by name listing more than 1,000 graves in our local cemetery at Old Forge plus photos of our deceased veterans gravestones. Start by searching for a cemetery (Riverview, Herkimer Co., NY) on the homepage.
• Northern NY Genealogy website link - Cemeteries and gravesites in Jefferson & Lewis County - GREAT Site.
• 1850 Census for Town of Wilmurt and History of Wilmurt 1869 -1870 Residents and Civil War Soldiers
• 1870 Federal Census for Town of Wilmurt in Herkimer County
• New York State Library Genealogy Guidelines and Links
• Genealogy HomePageSite Sponsored by Family Tree Maker - very comprehensive!
• New York GenWeb Project Military, County & Cemetery Links
• The Political Graveyard 34,929 Politicians, Judges, Diplomats - Alphabetical or by Office indexes
• New York State Governors Volunteer researchers Links maintained by Kim Harris Myers
• Herkimer County Website and Herkimer County Historical Society
• Hamilton County Website and Map of New York State Counties
• Lewis County Website
• Oneida County Website
• Franklin County Website
• St. Lawrence County Website
• Civil War Records for New York State
• Census Records for New York State
• Obtaining New York State Records for Genealogy Purposes
• Microfilm Records available at the NYS Archives
• Cornell University's contributions to Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history - searchable library of scanned images of the actual pages of the 19th century texts and journals.
• Surname Search From RootsWeb
• Morman Latter-day Saints Searchable database
• County-Municipal Historians in NYS - addresses and links provided by APHNYS