Westchester County, New York Genealogy

Courthouse
Westchester County Clerk's Office

Westchester County Surrogate's Court

Westchester County Archives

Record Loss

 * Lost census: 1890

Cities
Mount Vernon New Rochelle Peekskill

Rye


 * Rye City Government
 * Rye Historical Society

White Plains Yonkers

Towns
Bedford Cortlandt Eastchester Greenburgh Harrison Kings' Bridge – See Bronx County Lewisboro Morrisania – See Bronx County Mount Kisco Mount Pleasant New Castle North Castle Somers South Salem — See Lewisboro above Westchester (Town)– See Bronx County West Farms – See Bronx County Yorktown

any town

For those Westchester towns which later became part of the Bronx County, be sure to read the article: Before the Five-Borough City: The Old Cities, Towns and Villages That Came Together to Form "Greater New York"

Villages
Ardsley Briarcliff Manor Bronxville Buchanan Croton-On-Hudson Dobbs Ferry Elmsford Hastings-On-Hudson Irvington Larchmont Mamaroneck North Tarrytown — See Sleepy Hollow Ossining Pelham Pleasantville Port Chester Scarsdale Sleepy Hollow Tarrytown Tuckahoe

Hamlets
Armonk, Chappaqua, Hartsdale, Katonah – See Bedford, Montrose, Purchase, Valhalla — See Mount Pleasant

County Government Site
Westchester County Government

Neighboring Counties
Bronx|Orange| Putnam| Rockland| New Jersey Counties: Bergen

Cemeteries
New York Family History research - contains lists of cemeteries in the New York City and surrounding areas (and lots of other research info and links). http://www.nyfamilyhistory.com/cemetery.htm

Westchester NYGenWeb: Cemeteries The Political Graveyard: Westchester Find A Grave: Westchester Interment.net: Westchester

Libraries and Archives
Westchester Library System Westchester County Archives, including their Virtual Archives Westchester County Historical Society Westchester County Genealogical Society

Somers Historical Society

Census Records
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Westchester county, New York Census - done by the state

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Westchester County NYGenWeb's Census Page

Military

 * Civil War

Civil War service men in Westchester County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Westchester County:

- 5th Regiment, New York Infantry

- 7th Veteran Regiment, New York Infantry

- 9th Regiment, New York Infantry

- 17th Regiment, New York Infantry

- 27th Regiment, New York Infantry

- 32nd Regiment, New York Infantry

- 38th Regiment, New York Infantry

- 48th Regiment, New York Infantry

- 49th Regiment, New York Infantry

- 59th Regiment, New York Infantry

- 65th Regiment, New York Infantry

- 95th Regiment, New York Infantry

- 135th Regiment, New York Infantry 

- 146th Regiment, New York Infantry

- 164th Regiment, New York Infantry

- 168th Regiment, New York Infantry

- 176th Regiment, New York Infantry

- 186th Regiment, New York Infantry

- 191st Regiment, New York Infantry

- 192nd Regiment, New York Infantry

Books Online &amp; Off

 * Baird, Charles W. Chronicle of a border town: history of Rye, Westchester county, New York, 1660-1870, including Harrison and the White Plains till 1788. (Anson D.F. Randolph and Company, 1871) Download a copy in PDF format from Google Books.
 * Bolton, Robert. A guide to New Rochelle and its vicinity: Pelham, West Chester, West Farms, Morrissania, Fordham, Yonkers, East Chester, White Plains, Mamaroneck, and Rye (Reprinted Harbor Hill Books, 1976)
 * Bolton, Robert. A History of the County of Westchester, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time. 2 vols. (Alexander S. Gould, 1848) Volume 1 Volume 2 Download a copy in PDF format from Google Books.
 * Bolton, Robert. History of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the county of Westchester, from its foundation, 1693, to 1853. (Stanford &amp; Swords, 1855) Download a copy in PDF format from Google Books.
 * Dawson, Henry Barton. Westchester County, New York, during the American Revolution (s.n., 1886) Download a copy in PDF format from Google Books.
 * De Lancey, Edward Floyd Origin and history of manors in the province of New York and in the county of Westchester (s.n., 1886) Download a copy in PDF format from Google Books.
 * French, Alvah P. History of Westchester county, New York 5 volumes. (Lewis historical publishing company, inc., 1927)
 * French, J. H. Gazetteer of the State of New York. (Syracuse, NY: R. Pearsall Smith, c. 1860) Download a copy in PDF format from Google Books.
 * Hall, Edward Hagaman. Philipse Manor Hall at Yonkers, NY: The Site, the Building and Its Occupants. (c. 1925) Download a copy in PDF format from Google Books.
 * Jones, Thomas. Editor: Edward F. De Lancey. History of New York During the Revolutionary War and of the Leading Events in the Other Colonies. Volume 1 (New York: The New York Historical Society, 1879). Download a copy in PDF format from Google Books.
 * Judd, Jacob and Philip Van Cortlandt. The Revolutionary War memoir and selected correspondence of Philip Van Cortlandt. (Tarrytown, NY: Sleepy Hollow Restoration) Download a copy in PDF format from Google Books.
 * Morris, Fordham. The borough town of Westchester: An address delivered By Fordham Morris on the 28th day of October, 1896, before the Westchester County Historical Society in the Court House at White Plains, N. Y. (White Plains: The Eastern State Journal, printer; 1895) Download a copy in PDF format from Google Books.
 * Reynolds, Cuyler. Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building of a Nation, Volume 3 (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1914) Download a copy in PDF format from Google Books.
 * Scharf, J. Thomas History of Westchester county: New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York city, 2 vols. (L. E. Preston &amp; co., 1886) Volume 1, Volume 2 Download a copy in PDF format from Google Books.
 * Shonnard, Frederic History of Westchester County, New York: from its earliest settlement to the year 1900, Part 1 (New York History Co., 1900) Download a copy in PDF format from Google Books.

Wills

 * Early wills of Westchester County, New York, from 1664 to 1784 : a careful abstract of all wills (nearly 800) recorded in New York surrogate's office and at White plains, N.Y., from 1664-1784 - full-text freely available via Brigham Young University

Genealogy and History Websites
New York

Westchester's NYGenWeb site

Westchester County Resources in The NYG&amp;B Record

Mackenzie's Families of Philipsburgh