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Sullivan County, New York
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Sullivan County, New York Facts
When was Sullivan County, NY Created?
Sullivan County was created on March 27,1809 from Ulster County.
What is the County Seat of Sullivan County, NY?
The County Seat is located in Monticello and in addition the county government website is co.sullivan.ny.us/
What counties are adjacent to Sullivan County, NY?
Bordering Counties are Delaware County, Ulster County, Orange County, Pike County, PA, Wayne County, PA.
Sullivan County, NY Vital Records
Where can find Sullivan County Birth, marriage, Divorce and Death Records?
Sullivan County vital records can be found at the New York Department of Health which has copies of birth records after 1881 and death records after 1880, copies of marriage since 1881 and a Divorce records since 1847 . There is a fee for each copy requested. Please refer to the information to the Statewide Vital Records in New York for current fees and application process.
You can search online for Sullivan County Birth, Marriage, Divorce or Death Records. You can also Order Electronically Online or can download an application for New York Birth and Death Certificate, Marriage and Divorce Certificate Application to mail.
Sullivan County, NY Census Records
What Sullivan County, NY census records are available?
There are many types of census records for Sullivan County guide you in researching your family tree. Federal Population Schedules are available for 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880 (free index), 1890 (fragment), 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940.
Sullivan Co. Mortality Schedules can be obtained for 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. Sullivan Co. Industry and Agriculture is available for 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. Sullivan Co. Union Veterans Schedules can be obtained for 1890.
There are New York State censuses from 1880, 1892, 1905, 1855, 1865, 1875, 1892, 1905, 1915, 1925. You can get free downloadable and also printable census forms to help you with your research. See Also New York Census Records Research Guide
Sullivan County, NY Courthouse and Government Records
What genealogical records can I find in the Sullivan County Courthouse?
Researchers frequently overlook the great importance of Sullivan County court, probate, and land records data as a useful resource of ancestry and genealogy information. Buried away in New York courthouses and archives everywhere are the ambitions and frustrations of countless New York residents. The possibilities are excellent that your forefathers have left a comprehensive document of at least a number of facets of their lives in the Sullivan County court records. Even if your forebears is not referred to in a Court case, contemplate all of the other procedures that could have lead to him or her to appear in court records. See Also New York Courthouse Records Research Guide.
PLEASE READ FIRST!!! Please call the clerk’s department to confirm hours, mailing address, fees and other specifics before visiting or requesting information because of sometimes changing contact information. The Department Offices DO NOT DO RESEARCH. The files are available to interested parties, barring private issues. Many staff will guide individuals in locating the materials, however it’s up to the person to carry out the research. A fire in 1909 destroyed will volumes 1-7 but all or most of the files survived.
- Sullivan County Courthouse (all departments listed below are located here, unless otherwise noted)
- Address: 100 North Street, Monticello, New York 12701
- Sullivan County Clerk
- Phone: 845.807.0411
- Land Records: 1809
- Court Records: 1809
- Sullivan County Surrogate Court Clerk
- Phone: 845-807-0655, ext. 0690
- Probate Records: 1811
- Sullivan County Historian
- Address: P.O. Box 185, Barryville, NY 12719
- Phone: ?
- Index of wills of Sullivan County, New York
- Index to proceedings in administration of interstates [sic] estates
- New York Wills, 1626-1836
- BLM Land Records
Sullivan County, NY Societies and Family History Resources
What genealogical and historical societies, archives, museums, associations and libraries are available for Sullivan County, NY?
A list of Sullivan County Historical and Genealogical Societies, Libraries, Archives. See also list of Statewide New York Archives, Historical & Genealogical Societies.
- Sullivan County Historical Society, 265 Main Street, P.O. Box 247, Hurleyville, NY 12747–0247, Phone: 845–434–8044; Website lists county cemeteries that they have listings for, and county histories – on a town by town basis. Genealogy Department offers searches for a fee.
- Fort Delaware – Museum of Colonial History, 6615 Route 97, North of Port Jervis, Narrowsburg, NY 12764, Phone: 845–794–3459; Offers Genealogical services
- New York State Archives and Records Administration, 11th Floor, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY 12230; (518) 474-8955
- New York State Library, Cultural Education Center, 7th Floor, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY 12230
- The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 122 East 58th Street, New York, New York 10022-1939
- New York State Historical Association, West Lake Road, P.O. Box 800, Cooperstown, New York, 13326-0800
Where can I connect with other Sullivan County, NY Researchers through message boards and forums?
- https://www.archives.gov/research/census
- New York Genealogy Community (plus.google.com)
- New York State Genealogy Network (facebook.com)
- Sullivan County, New York Message Boards (boards.ancestry.com)
- Sullivan County, New York Genealogy Forum (genforum.genealogy.com)
What other genealogical resources are available in Sullivan County, NY?
The following are web links to Genealogy, Records and Resources pertaining to Sullivan County. Most of these genealogy links fall into 3 categories: Business oriented Sites, Private Sites or Organization Sites. Some have free access some have to have a cost. This is simply a listing that has been compiled or submitted. I do not recommend or promote one genealogy site over another.
Sullivan Co. NY Books, Newspapers & Publications
- New York Newspapers Books & Publications Research Guide
- New York historical newspaper archives online (newspapers.com)
- Historical Newspapers from New York (1719 – 1992) (genealogybank.com)
- The Sullivan Whig, published at Bloomingburgh, N.Y. (search.ancestry.com)
- Sullivan County, New York Books (amazon.com)
- Search New York Obituaries (1985 to current) (genealogybank.com)
Sullivan Co. NY Cemeteries & Church Records
- New York Cemetery Research Guide
- Graveyards of Cohecton [sic] (search.ancestry.com)
- Gravestone inscriptions of Grahamsville Reformed Dutch Church and others. (search.ancestry.com)
- Gravestone inscriptions of Liberty Town Cemetery (old section) Liberty, Kenoza lake, and others. (search.ancestry.com)
- Graveyard inscriptions of New Vernon Cemetery and others (search.ancestry.com)
- Graveyard inscriptions of Callicoon Centre Cemetery, Callicoon Centre, Rock Ridge Cemetery, Thompson, Old Youngsville Cemetery, (search.ancestry.com)
- Gravestone inscriptions of Gonsalus Farm Cemetery, Sylvan Cemetery, Wurtsboro, N.Y., Forestburg Cemetery, and others. (search.ancestry.com)
- Graveyard inscriptions of Baptist Church Cemetery, Parksville, Youngsville Cemetery, and others. (search.ancestry.com)
- Graveyard inscriptions of Velie & Neversink Cemetery and others. (search.ancestry.com)
- Graveyard inscriptions of Old Bethel Cemetery, New Cemetery, Bethel, Hurd Settlement Cemetery, Hurd Settlement, Swan Lake, form (search.ancestry.com)
- Gravestone inscriptions of Bridgeville Cemetery, Bridgeville, Old Fulton or Fraser Cemetery, Ferndale, Old Fallsburg (Palen’s) (search.ancestry.com)
- Graveyard inscriptions of the Bloomingburgh Cemetery, Bloomingburgh, Sullivan County, New York (search.ancestry.com)
- Gravestone inscriptions, Stanton or Centennial Cemetery, of Wurtsboro of Sullivan County-New York (search.ancestry.com)
- Sullivan Co., New York Graves (findagrave.com)
- Sullivan County Tombstone Transcription Project (usgwtombstones.org)
- Sullivan Co., New York Cemeteries (Internment.net)
- Sullivan Co., New York Cemetery Books (amazon.com)
- New York Church & Bible Research Guide
- Records of the Presbyterian Church, Monticello, Sullivan County, New York (search.ancestry.com)
- Records of the Dutch Reformed Congregation of Mamakating (search.ancestry.com)
- Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church (search.ancestry.com)
- Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Bloomingburgh, Sullivan County, N.Y. (search.ancestry.com)
- Records of the White Lake Presbyterian Church of Bethel, Sullivan County, New York (search.ancestry.com)
- Records of the Associated Reformed Church of Mongaup Valley, Sullivan County, New York (search.ancestry.com)
- Records of the Presbyterian Church of Cochecton, Sullivan County, New York (search.ancestry.com)
- Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Swan Lake, Rockhill and Bridgeville, N.Y. (search.ancestry.com)
- Record of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Barryville, N.Y. (Sullivan County) (search.ancestry.com)
- Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Grahamsville, Sullivan County, N.Y. (search.ancestry.com)
- Record of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Half Way Brook Village, Sullivan County, N.Y., now known as Pond Eddy, N.Y. (search.ancestry.com)
- Records of the Reformed Dutch Church, Woodbourne, Sullivan County, New York (search.ancestry.com)
- Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Sandburgh, Sullivan County, N.Y. (search.ancestry.com)
- Methodist Episcopal Church records (search.ancestry.com)
- Records of the Barryville Congregational Church of Barryville, Sullivan County, New York (search.ancestry.com)
- Records of the Baptist Church at Parksville and Liberty, N.Y., Sullivan County, N.Y. (search.ancestry.com)
- Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Rock Hill, Sullivan County, N.Y. (search.ancestry.com)
- Records of the First Presbyterian Church, Lake Huntington, Sullivan County, N.Y. (search.ancestry.com)
- Records of Consistory of the Union Tabernacle Reformed Church, Unionville, Sullivan County, N.Y. (search.ancestry.com)
- Records of the Free Methodist Church, Ferndale, Sullivan County, N.Y. (search.ancestry.com)
- New York, Family Bible Records, 1581-1917 (search.ancestry.com)
- Sullivan County, New York Church Books (amazon.com)
Sullivan Co. NY Family Websites, Pictures & Histories
- Create a Free Family Tree (ancestry.com)
- New York Family Group Sheet Project (fgs-project.com)
- Nichols and Related Families (nicholsgenealogy.com)
Sullivan Co. NY General and History Websites
- See Also State History for New York
- Sullivan County, New York Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
- History of Sullivan County : embracing an account of its geology, climate, aborigines, early settlement, organization, the form (search.ancestry.com)
- Old Monticello (search.ancestry.com)
- Traditions of Hartwood : a narrative which has to do with the region in the vicinity of Hartwood, Sullivan County, New York, wi (search.ancestry.com)
- Centennial celebration of the Presbyterian Church, Monticello, New York : observed Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, September 4, 5 a (search.ancestry.com)
- The sesquicentennial of the Battle of Minisink (search.ancestry.com)
- Sullivan County, New York Wiki (familysearch.org)
- Sullivan Co. NY Genealogy (kindredtrails.com)
- Family History Library (familysearch.org)
- Sullivan County, New York (linkpendium.com)
- Cyndi’s List – United States – New York – Counties – Sullivan (cyndislist.com)
- Sullivan County New York (genealogytrails.com)
- Sullivan Co. NYGenweb (rootsweb.ancestry.com)
- Sullivan County Genealogy Queries (cousinconnect.com)
- Sullivan Co. Data Collections (search.ancestry.com)
Sullivan Co. NY Immigration & Naturalization
- See Also Statewide Immigration and Naturalization Links for New York
- New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924 (familysearch.org)
- Early New York Naturalizations (search.ancestry.com)
Sullivan Co. NY Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers
- See Also Map of New York Links and Information
- 1895 Sullivan County Map (livgenmi.com)
Sullivan Co. NY Military Records
- New York Military Records Research Guide
- New York, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865 (familysearch.org)
- New York Civil War Records (1861-65) (search.ancestry.com)
- New York Military Records (Fold3.com) provides easy access to military records, stories, photos, and personal documents of the New York both women and men who served. Perfect for Sullivan County genealogists, researchers, historians and more.