I will answer the questions that I can in the order that you asked them. 1.You can determine the exact location if they owned the land. After finding the deed and getting the legal description of the land it should tell you which tract the land is on and what number. There are plat maps available at the County Records Center in Utica. I don't recall what years they are for. You could probably write and ask for a copy. Florence and Camden border each other but the lines would not have changed in that timeframe. Look at the Oneida Co. Genweb site for cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyoneida/ 2. There are town vital records for 1847- 1850, many of those are on the Genweb site. 3. LDS has filmed many Oneida County records including land, probate, state census, military, church info. See their online catalog for exactly what they have. On 6/20/07, Frank Bax <fbax@sympatico.ca> wrote: > > First posting here. Although I have done research for many years, none of > it was in the USA (except contacting a few living distant cousins), so > please feel free to state the obvious (to anyone else) about existing > records, because I probably don't know about them. > > First the facts (as I know them), then the questions... > > I found the family of William and Ann James in 1850 and 1860 census in > NY-Oneida. > > 1850 US Census - town of Florence > William 42, Ann 39, Arthur 12, William E 9, John W 5, Charles R 2 > > 1860 US Census - town of Camden; Florence Post Office > William 53, Ann 51, Arthur J 22, Edwin J 18, John W 15, Charles R 13, Mary > 8, Josephine 3. > > Census images available here: > <http://www.execulink.com/%7Efbax/FamTree/James/> > http://www.execulink.com/~fbax/FamTree/James/ > > Three children are married in St.Marys, ON, Canada in 1870's; birthplaces > are noted as either NY state or Oneida, NY. It looks like the family was > in Syracuse before they crossed the border because Josephine's membership > in Baptist church in Ontario was transferred "by letter" from Syracuse. I > did not find this family in either 1870 US or 1871 Canada census; but > expect they should still be in USA. > > 1) Is it possible to determine a precise place of residence from the > census? How? Is family in the same place in 1850 and 1860? I'd like to > check nearby cemeteries, but I don't yet know what "nearby" means. > > 2) Are there any records for births (1838-1860) or marriage (before 1838) > in Oneida? > > 3) What records might be available (Internet, LDS, etc) for further > research in NY on this family? > > 4) Does anyone here happen to know anything about membership rolls of > Baptist churches in Syracuse about 1870, or do I also need to join the > Onondaga list for this question? > > Thanks, Frank > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYONEIDA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >