Library

Available at the Library:

Online Indexes

Indexes to several of our collections are available online, as well as a listing of recent acquisitions to the library:

Recent Aquisitions
Biography Listings
Cemetery Listings
Church Records on Microfilm
French Scrapbooks Index
Index to Mackenzie’s “The Families of the Colonial Manor of Philipsburg”
McDonald Papers Index
Mead Family Papers Inventory
Richard Maass Collection on Arnold/Andre
Westchester Historian Index 1990-2014

Collections and Finding Aids

Books and Pamplets
Genealogy Collection
Manuscripts

Additional holdings available for research on Westchester families

Scharf’s History of Westchester County (colonial – 1886)
Mackenzie’s “Families of the Colonial manor of Philipsburg” (colonial – early 1800’s)
McDonald Papers (Revolutionary Period)
French’s Scrapbook Collection (1880 – 1925)
Marriage and death notices from Westchester newspapers (1830 – 1875)
Pelletreau’s Early Wills of Westchester (1664 – 1784) and New York Historical Society “Abstract of Wills” (1665 – 1800)
Genealogy Files (by family name)
Periodical Index (WCHS holdings – includes NYG&B Record, Connecticut Ancestry, TAG, local Westcheter periodicals)
Cemetery index (WCHS holdings – 18th-20th century)
Manuscripts index (WCHS holdings – mostly 19th century)
The Westchester Historian (WCHS quarterly, published 1925 – current)
Colonial censuses and Federal censuses, 1790 – 1840, 1850 – 1930
County almshouse records (ca. 1880 – 1908)
Orphanage records: Children’s Village, Lincoln Hall, Wartburg, Graham-Windham (19th- 20th centuries)
Church records (microfilmed records of approximately 30 Westchester Churches)
Other (local histories, published military records, etc.)