Ontario County New York Genealogy and History     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. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this website become a useful research tool. If you would like to join our group and become the host of this county, please read what we're all about on our Volunteer Page and email Kim (A desire to transcribe data and basic webpage skills are necessary) Until we get a dedicated volunteer to maintain this site, we'll do the best we can to add data as we come across it. You can send your family's raw data (transcribed birth/marriage/death, cemetery, census, biography records) to us and we'll include it on this site. 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 In 1789, Ontario County was formed from Montgomery County. The original area was much larger than present day Ontario County, including what is now the counties of Allegany (1806), Cattaraugus (1808), Chautauqua (1808), Erie (1821), Genesee (1802), Livingston (1821), Monroe (1821), Niagara (1808), Orleans (1824), Steuben (1796), Wyoming (1841), and Yates Counties (1823), Schuyler (1854) and Wayne (1823). County Seat: Canandaigua Year Organized: 1789 Square Miles: 662 County Clerk 20 Ontario Street Canandaigua, NY 14424 Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Mar 2013: GREIG obit Oct 2012: AKIN, BOOTH bios Previous Updates: HOWE, DENBOW, BOWERMAN, HOWE, MCGOUGH, MCDONOUGH, LATHAM, GREENWOOD, SHERWOOD, PHELPS, MISNER, TOWLER, NICHOLAS bio; crime news about MORGAN; Fire story; Owney, the postal railway mascot; Bios for BRIGGS, MONROE; obits; marriage and birth announcements, legal notices Search Our Sites | Join Our Mailing Lists (New York is covered on the Northeast Mailing List)       Visit our NY State Site Surrounding Counties Wayne Seneca Yates Steuben Livingston Monroe 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.