Tim The names, addresses and phone numbers for all of the Saratoga County clerks and historians are on the Saratoga County GenWebPage which is maintained by Heritage Hunters. You will also find the the local repositories where you will find resources with Saratoga information. We have included the historians and repositories of neighboring counties and need to add some more but there is information on Saratoga people to be found outside of Saratoga County. If you have not visited the Saratoga page, you should and check out the many records and features that volunteers have provided and continue to add to. After visiting other web pages, you will see that ours is a lot easier to search and quite a quantity of information so far. Check us out: <http://www.rootsweb.com/~nysarato/> You might want to call the Saratoga County Historian, rather than the County Clerk. There are a few marriages (I think early 1900's) at the County Clerk's office but they do not have any deaths or births. They would be located in the town clerk's. The deeds, mortgages, census (they don't have them all), maps and other records are to be found here. They also have Naturalizations, some old court records and some other old things, yet to be indexed and identified. I was in the vault today and glanced through some court records that start in 1805. There are other sources of vital records in the County Historian's - cemetery records, Durkee's Epitaghs, Durkee's Vital Records, Ritchie's Collection, Kinship's Valley Quarterlies, most of the books about Saratoga County, town files, genealogy files and lots more. Having visited other County Historian's I will tell you that you will probably not find a county collection anywhere that is as large and as well organized as we have. If you are searching Saratoga County, this is THE first place to start. The County Clerk is upstairs in this building and the Surrogate Court - wills and estates, is in the building directly behind. One-stop shopping (searching), so to speak. Brookside, Saratoga County Historical Society is nearby with quite a collection of information in books, some personal papers, Bibles and other information including genealogy files. They have a web site and an email address: [email protected] and do have a researcher there who will search for a fee around the local records. Brookside just received a grant to purchase the necessary equipment to scan and photograph their entire collection and have it all up on their internet site. This will be the first museum in the USA to ever do this and are seeking volunteers to help with this enormous project. A couple of blocks away is the Ballston Spa Library which has some collections of material including the Ballston Journal Newspaper which goes quite away back. Volunteers have created an index to the paper and last I knew are up to about the 1880's. If you find an ancestor in that index, you will find the event, date and a notation of the issue (date) in the Ballston Journal that it is in will be in. This often yields an article about the event which might include other family members. There are cemetery records, genealogies and other materials in this library to search. They also have a unique collection - The Manzer Collection. Mr. Manzer searched the world and created an index and collection of anything that contained any information about any part of Saratoga County. The index is about 1 1/2 inches thick and worth studying for other sources of information Well after all of this, have you called to see when the next flight north is departing? God Bless Ruth Ann [email protected] - --------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tim Morrissey <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Phone number? Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 06:55:27 -0500 Message-ID: <[email protected]> I am thinking I need to start with a call to the County Clerk of Saratoga County. Can anybody help with a name and a number? Any other advice on this? Any help appreciated. Even snowier in North Carolina and a LONG way from Saratoga County... Slainte, Tim ============================== The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: 12.8 million individuals and counting. http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ --------- End forwarded message ---------- ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.