Hello Folks: I have had a number of people ask about how to find the website for Histories of Onondaga County. I had perviously posted the site as www.GenealogyCD.com but that site no longer works. You can now locate the publisher at: http://www.stores.ebay.com/id=85443626&ssPageName=L2. The contents of the disk is posted below: Bill Casey PO Box 36 Apulia Station, NY 13020 [email protected] 315 683-5674 http://www.fabiusny.org Genealogy & History of ONONDAGA COUNTY, NY 4019 Pages of Information CD Contents Onondaga, or, Reminiscences of earlier and later times : being a series of historical sketches relative to Onondaga, with notes on the several towns in the county and Oswego Syracuse N.Y.: Stoddard and Babcock, 1849, Clark, Joshua V. H., 805 pgs. .. History of Onondaga County, New York : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason, 1878, Clayton, W. W., 610 pgs. .. Onondaga's centennial : gleanings of a century Boston: The Boston History Company, 1896, Bruce, Dwight H., 1996 pgs. .. Mortuary records with genealogical notes of the town of Spafford, Onondaga County, New York Syracuse, N.Y.: Onondaga Historical Association, 1917, Collins, George Knapp, 286 pgs. .. Revolutionary soldiers resident or dying in Onondaga County, N.Y. : with supplementary list of possible veterans based on a pension list of Franklin H. Chase, Syracuse, N.Y. Syracuse, N.Y.: McDonnell Co., 1913, Beauchamp, William Martin, 309 pgs. .. Historical account of the origin and progress of the Onondaga County Orphan Asylum, established in 1841 : located in the city of Syracuse, N.Y. Syracuse, N.Y.: Standard Pub. Co., 1876, 13 pgs. A Bit about the CDs These Cds offer the home researcher the opportunity to own resources, at a reasonable price, which are usually only available in regional history libraries or unavailable at all due to their fragile or deteriorating condition. Each CD-ROM contains actual page images from the original books. They are produced by scanning the original texts making them not only excellent resources but archival copies available for future generations. The age of most of these text make them unreadable under normal conditions as well as very expensive to own due to their limited distribution. Unless stated otherwise they are not text searchable. They contain an extensive bookmark feature that makes it very easy to find the pages you want. Additionally adobe now offers, on the PC version, a feature called the "paper catcher". It will convert about 98% (according to adobe) of all pdf images into searchable text. It uses a process called OCR (Optical Character Recognition) which "reads" the image and converts it into text. With this new feature you can convert individual pdf files to a searchable text. For further information please contact adobe at <A HREF="http://www.adobe.com/support/readguide.html">http://www.adobe.com/support/readguide.html</A>. CD Editions are delivered by first class mail, on Compact Disk. They will be in Adobe Acrobat® (pdf) or HTML Format, depending on the edition. If you do not have a copy of Adobe Reader it is supplied on each CD. CDs work with both major operating systems -- Windows and MAC OSX This CD-ROM uses Adobe Acrobat reader. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader it is provided, Free of charge, on every CD.