Two places I'd recommend are: The Ridgewood Library, Ridgewood, Bergen Co., NJ. In addition to the Library's own collection on local history and genealogy, The Genealogical Society of Bergen Co. collection is housed here (including my own compilation on CD on "Early Bergen County Families" which spills over to include Rockland County, Passaic Co., and further afield in some cases). The New City Library, New City, Rockland County, NY which has a "Rockland Room" with a great collection of material on Rockland County local history and genealogy. Both these locations have excellent librarians who will be happy to help you and can also suggest other avenues for your research. I hope you are able to get most of your questions answered. Pat On May 31, 2012, at 12:48 PM, Brian J Densmore wrote: > I'll be in NY for several days. I have a number of easy to hard tasks on > my wish list for NY. What types of realistic goals are possible in > Rockland/Bergen county in a day's worth of research? > > Some of the things I'd like to find: > > I'd really love to find the details, including parents of Anne Secor > *(1785-1795), > oo Edward (Adrian) Waldron (the younger) [10 Feb 1803, West Hempstead], > +(1820-1825), likely in Haverstraw (but who knows with the Waldron Clan). > > Other things: > 1. Calvin Waldron oo Mary Youmans, ~1836, ?; > 2. Thomas Waldron baptism/birth 9 Feb 1856; > 3. Mary Youmans death >1898?, probably around Mt. Arlington, NJ. > 4. Graves for the above three (Thomas in 1898 and Calvin in 1896 both in > Mt. Arlington). > 5. Hannah Allison death >1825, (wife of RW Patriot Adrian Waldron). > Haverstraw? > 6. Jonathon Youmans death (1763-), RW Patriot (yes he enlisted as a teen > and served, probably as a gopher, what not). Haverstraw? Son of Jonathon > Youmans and Maria Smith. > 7. Jonathon's wife's info, Elizabeth DeGraw (18 May 1756 - ?), dau of > Johannes DeGrauw and Rachel van Hoorn. > 8. Information on George Babcock (1766 - ) son of Thomas Babcock and > brother of RW Patriot Isaac Babcock (source: Isaac's RW papers). > 9. Anything on George's wife, Elisabeth Jones. > 10. and lots, lots more. > > I expect a good deal of this information to be centered around Haverstraw, > but as you know, nothing is that easy with these old Dutch families. I > know there are a few wills I'll be looking up, a few cemetery trips > (perhaps early in the morning, before normal working hours, or late > evening, or even another day). > > So any tips for best locations to do research are greatly appreciated. I > know of a few locations with a lot of resources, but as I've never used > any of them, I'd like your opinions on the best places to start to attempt > to achieve the most. > > Thanks, > Brian > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYROCKLA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thank you! New City was on my short list. In fact it was on top of my list. Not sure I could hit two locations in one day. I was in fact torn between a Bergen centric approach and a Rockland centric approach. Thanks for throwing me back to square one. lol. Does New City have records covering Bergen also? These collections have actual first and second hand records, besides compilations, right? I have well nigh exhausted my research efforts at the DutchDoorGenealogy site and others on the Internet. Although that last one is a moving target. I recently got email addresses for over 50 other researchers on one section of the family tree (thank you, Disbyt). Sadly, not one of the ones most in need. I will probably spend years with just that one result. I'm not really sure what's out in print form to help me, but I suspect it's greater than the digital form. Thank you, Brian On Thu, May 31, 2012 11:35 am, Pat & Walter Wardell wrote: > Two places I'd recommend are: > > The Ridgewood Library, Ridgewood, Bergen Co., NJ. In addition to the > Library's own collection on local history and genealogy, The Genealogical > Society of Bergen Co. collection is housed here (including my own > compilation on CD on "Early Bergen County Families" which spills over to > include Rockland County, Passaic Co., and further afield in some cases). > > The New City Library, New City, Rockland County, NY which has a "Rockland > Room" with a great collection of material on Rockland County local history > and genealogy. > > Both these locations have excellent librarians who will be happy to help > you and can also suggest other avenues for your research. > > I hope you are able to get most of your questions answered. > > Pat > > > On May 31, 2012, at 12:48 PM, Brian J Densmore wrote: > >> I'll be in NY for several days. I have a number of easy to hard tasks on >> my wish list for NY. What types of realistic goals are possible in >> Rockland/Bergen county in a day's worth of research? >> ...