I have been asked off list for the hours that the Cayuga County Historians Office in Auburn is open for visitors to view the Irish Heritage collection and also to research family history. Monday - Friday 9-5 The Historians office is located in the Historic Old Post Office on Genesee Street in Auburn New York. Take the elevator to the 3rd floor. Our suite of rooms contain the research room, media room,County Historians and Archivists offices and Computer/Secretary room. The Research room contains city directories from 1858. Census records from 1790, cards, newspaper abstracts 1799 - 1865 and over 3,000 family files. Topic files, church histories, you name it , we have it. 10 volumes of cemetery records from each town are also in this room for easy location of the cemetery by town. All books are indexed. The large Catholic Cemetery of St. Joseph's in Fleming which has over 37,000 burials from 1874 is on a computer disc and easily accessed and printed out by surname alphabetically. The local published works of Cayuga County town Historians are in the research room also. Many bound genealogies are in the media room where the stacks of bound books are located. We have microfilm readers with printers that are hooked up to the computer system. All early newspapers are on microfilm. Auburn is the County seat for the 23 towns in Cayuga County. For a family Historian, this proximity to local records couldn't be any easier. In a triangle of buildings located on the main street are the Historians Office, across the street the Cayuga County Office building where all the deeds are in bound books for review and searching. On the third corner is the Cayuga County Court house where the Surrogates Office is located. Here the index books will show you what box number a ancestors will is in . The Records Retention Office is in back of the Court House on Court Street, and here a copy of the will can be obtained very reasonably. Come visit us, restaurants are near by, and you will find all staff are friendly and helpful. Some of the actual bound deed books from 1789 are a joy to see.. Plan to spend the day, visit the historic sites. Brochures and information of places to visit are in the CC Office of Tourism one block away. There are various hotel and motel lodging for overnight visits at a reasonable fee. Owasco Lake and Skaneatles Lake are within 15 minutes of each other. Cayuga Lake is 30 minutes away. Spring, summer , fall and winter, Cayuga County is a beautiful region of friendly inhabitants waiting to assist you. Laurel Auchampaugh