New York State Newspaper Project [link to site]
The United States Newspaper Program is a cooperative national effort among the states and the federal government to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm newspapers published in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. Funding is provided in part by a National
Endowment for the Humanities grant administered by the New York State Library. Technical assistance is furnished by the Library
of Congress. The USNP has supported projects in each of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The New York State Newspaper Project, which began in 1987, identifies, describes, and preserves on microfilm New York's community newspapers. The Project has been carried out through nine regional projects based on the state's nine regional Reference
and Research Library Resources Systems.
Microfilming is done in accordance with American National Standards Institute and Association for Information and Image Management standards. The microfilm is added to the State Library's collection, which is available for interlibrary loan. A copy of the film is also provided at no cost to the institution loaning the newspapers. Preservation microfilming is currently funded through June 2006. The Project's bibliographic work, completed in 2004, consisted of a detailed inventory of newspaper collections throughout the state, CONSER cataloging into the OCLC Online Union Catalog, and the entry of holdings into the USNP Union List.
The Project inventoried 1,750 newspaper repositories yielding 69,817 local holdings records. 22,433 distinct U.S. newspaper titles were cataloged, with 10,377 of those published in New York State. To date, the Project has microfilmed over 4 million pages of New York State history in newspapers since July 1991, amounting to 6,284 rolls of film.
Cyndi's List [link to site]
Cyndi's List is a large genealogical gateway site to many genealogical sources. These are organized both by topics, and in a general alphabetical listing. Here the genealogist can find links to types of records, how-to guides, and for our purposes, records covering specific locations.
The following links branching from Cyndis List pertain to genealogical research in Tompkins County.
VitalRec [link to site]
VitalRec is a where to write site that is especially helpful as it also provides specifics such as cost for genealogy requests.
NYTOMPKI-L
This is a listserv for anyone with a genealogical interest in Tompkins County, New York. To subscribe send "subscribe" to nytompki-l-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or nytompki-d-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode).
FamilySearch [link to site]
FamilySearch is the database maintained by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Most of its databases are searchable by surname, so no matter where ones ancestors are from, pertinent, specific information can be obtained online through this source.
RootsWeb of Tompkins County [link to site]
RootsWeb is a database of genealogical sources that have been compiled by volunteers and historians throughout the country. It is subdivided into states and counties. The above link will take you to the Tompkins County sites that yield searchable genealogical data.
For instance, this
link is a compilation of cemetery records of Tompkins County which includes all the cemeteries in Dryden. Here you will find the names, interment dates and other information from tombstone inscriptions for each cemetery.
