Chautauqua County New York Genealogy and History Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This site is available for adoption! Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. This site is available for adoption! If you have a love for history and/or genealogy, consider joining us! If you would like to join our group and become the host of this county, please read about what we're all about on our Volunteer Page (A desire to transcribe data and basic webpage skills are necessary) WE REGRET THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO DO PERSONAL RESEARCH FOR YOU. All data we come across will be added to this website, so please keep checking back. County Information Its name is a contraction of a Seneca Indian word meaning "where the fish was taken out." It is located south of Lake Erie and includes a small portion of the Cattaraugus Reservation of the Seneca. Most of Chautauqua County was held by the Erie people prior to the Beaver Wars in the 1650s.  The Seneca Nation conquered the territory during the Beaver Wars and held it through the next century until siding with the British crown against the American revolutionaries in the American Revolutionary War. County Seat: Mayville Year Organized: 1808 Square Miles: 1,062 Courthouse Info: 3 North Erie Street Gerace Office Building Mayville, NY 14757-1028 Cities  Dunkirk ~ Jamestown Towns Arkwright ~ Busti ~ Carroll ~ Charlotte ~ Chautauqua ~ Cherry Creek ~ Clymer ~ Dunkirk ~ Ellery ~ Ellicott ~ Ellington ~ French Creek ~ Gerry ~ Hanover ~ Harmony ~ Kiantone ~ Mina ~ North Harmony ~ Poland ~ Pomfret ~ Portland ~ Ripley ~ Sheridan ~ Sherman ~ Stockton ~ Villenova ~ Westfield Villages Bemus Point ~ Brocton ~ Cassadaga ~ Celoron ~ Cherry Creek ~ Falconer ~ Fredonia ~ Lakewood ~ Mayville (county seat) ~ Panama ~ Sherman ~ Silver Creek ~ Sinclairville ~ Westfield Other Hamlets  Ashville ~ Findley Lake ~ Forestville ~ Hamlet ~ Irving ~ Laona ~ Lily Dale ~ Maple Springs Indian reservation  Cattaraugus Reservation County Records Biographies Birth Records Cemeteries Census Records Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles and Records History Topics Marriage Records Military Records Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Gleanings Obituaries and Death Notices School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Feb 2020: Military:  Vietnam War Casualties Jan 2020: Military:  Korean War Casualties Obits:  CROCKER, WESOLOSKI Marriage news:  MORTON-BURKE, SPUR-NOYE Nov 2019:  Burials in Ivory Cemetery.   1830 Census of Chautauqua Twp. obit for STONE, RISLEY Birth notices for KUCHARSKI, LYNE, RIDER, WILCOX Marriage notices for FRICKE-THOMPSON, BOND-HOVEY Crime news for LOUCKS PREVIOUS UPDATES   SEARCH OUR SITES Submit an Obituary to Us for any of our county sites. Email US Don't miss an Update! Join our Genealogy Trails Northeastern States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. For the States of : Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia You never know who you might meet and what family data they may share with you -- it could start a whole new branch of the family! We also use the mailing lists to announce our website updates.   Surrounding Counties Erie County - northeast Cattaraugus County  - east Warren County, Penn. - southeast Erie County, Penn. - southwest Visit our NY State Site   Visit the   National Genealogy Trails Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.