End of Year Column in the Citizen
There are many people who are happy to see the coming of the new year, and yet I must say […]
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Home Town by Elizabeth E. Smith Case
I stumbled across this delightful four-article-remembrance as I was looking for an obit in the old Port Byron Chronicle. It […]
The Port Byron Family Tree -5; The Peck Family
About a month back I was asked to search out the lineage of the Peck family in regards to a […]
Kittie Rhoades
I have been on a bit of a quest this past month. If you have ever been in the Mt. […]
The November Citizen Column
Recently my wife and I were on a canal tour in Chemung, NY, and the local historian was explaining how […]
The Archive Collection and the Collection Policy
The core of any historical society or museum is the collection of materials known as the archives. Over the years, […]
The Port Byron Family Tree – 4; The Buck family
Updated- Although the village of Port Byron was once called Bucksville, I had not done a lot of genealogy on […]
The Donation Party, December 1844
Lock 52 Historical Society has added more papers to it’s digital resources. The Port Byron Herald was printed in the […]
Haydenville
This month I will finish out our tour of little settlements around the town by visiting Haydenville. This very small […]
The Port Byron Family Tree – 3; The Hayden and Weston families.
I was working on an article about Haydenville, which was a small milling settlement two miles south of the village. […]