Below are listed some local resources posted elsewhere on this site, as well as pages relating to our neighboring counties, and a few other links.
Many more can be found by following these to the larger project sites.
Yates County Resources:
Email: Fran
Basic resources
Census resources
Census indexes
Vital records
Cemetery resources
Yates County Genealogical & Historical Society (email: ycghs@yatespast.com)
Local Municipal Resources
Please note that copies of some original documents (marked with a * in the list below) can be requested by researchers. Certain information must be sent in with the request, and these requirements are set out fully, usually on the summary page of each record series. The County Historian's office gets an enormous number of copy requests, and they can be processed a lot more quickly if we have the correct reference, and the name and postal address of the person to whom they are to be sent.
Basic resources
Town records
Service Registers 1861-1865*
Index to Jerusalem Record of Roads 1798-1820*
Index to Jerusalem Minute Book 1: 1799-1868*
Index to Benton Minute Book 1: 1806-1830*
Index to Barrington Record of Roads 1826 - 1851*
Index to Starkey Record of Roads 1826 - 1874*
Index to Potter Record of Roads 1833 -1888*
Index to Milo Record of Roads 1801-1869*
Index to Deeds Transmitted from Ontario County 1788-1823*
Index to Deeds Transmitted from Steuben County 1796-1826*
Index to Mortgages Transmitted from Ontario County 1788-1826*
PennYan Tax Rolls for the 1840s and 1850s
Old vital records page - Vital records
Church records: Record Book of the Free Congregational Church in Penn Yan
Records of the First Presbyterian Church of Penn Yan: 1823 and 1826-28
Early tax rolls of Ontario County towns now in Yates County
Innkeepers' Recognizances*
Index to marriage licenses held by Yates County (1908-1935)*
Index to certificates in County Marriage Book A (1908-1914)*
Index to certificates in County Marriage Book B (1914-1921)*
Index to certificates in County Marriage Book C (1921-1926)*
Consolidated index to all County Marriage Records 1908-1935*
Town vital records filed with the County 1847-1849*
Yates County estates filed in Ontario County 1789-1824*
Every-name indexes to Yates County Surrogate's Records 1823-1925*
Lists of persons named in Surrogate's Records Packets 1-300*
Every-name indexes to Yates County Wills, Books A-G *
Applications for Civil War and War of 1812 pensions and back pay
Other Local Resources
Vital records in the Penn Yan Democrat 1899-1949*
Surrogate Court Records Index*
Civil War Draft Roll 1863*
World War I Militia Roll 1917*
Index to World War I Service Record Cards*
Name Index to Yates County's Boys in Blue
Deaths of Officers and Enlisted Men from the 1865 Census
Revolutionary and War of 1812 Pensioners
Name index to Stafford Canning Cleveland's 1873 History of Yates County
Name index to Walter Wolcott's Military History of Yates County
Index to Nineteenth-Century Indictments*
Index to Ex parte case files 1823-1921*
1872 Necrology, Yates County Chronicle
Vital Records from the Yates County Chronicle 1867-1875*
? Vital Records from the Yates County Whig 1840-1841
Vital Records from Penn Yan Democrat 1840s
Items of genealogical interest from the Democrat: 1850,
1852,
1853,
1854
Vital Records from the Penn Yan Democrat 1860s
Vital Records from the Penn Yan Democrat 1870-1895
? Vital Records from the Penn Yan Express 1894-1897
? Items of genealogical interest from the Dundee Observer 1878
Records of Penn Yan Presbyterian and Congregational Churches 1823-1900
Cemetery project:
Cemetery project: Burials in the town of Barrington
Burials in the town of Benton
Cemetery project: Burials in the town of Italy
Cemetery project: Burials in the town of Jerusalem
Cemetery project: Burials in the town of Middlesex
Cemetery project: Burials in the town of Milo
Cemetery project: Burials in the town of Potter and the village of Rushville
Cemetery project: Burials in the town of Starkey
Cemetery project: Burials in the town of Torrey
Cemetery project: Burials in Hillside cemetery, Dundee
Cemetery project: Burials in Lakeview cemetery, Penn Yan (Purchases 1, 2, 3 East, 3 West and the Free Ground)
Cemetery project: Burials in St. Michael's Parish cemeteries, Penn Yan
Index to 1892 Census
Index to 1905 Census
Index to 1915 Census
Index to 1925 Census
The NYGenWeb Archives contain a great volume of material submitted by genealogists and others for use by everyone. The posted material is broken down into categories: Biographies; Obituaries; Wills; Census; Bible records; and Cemetery records.
The Yates County files have up to now been submitted mostly by Bonnie Bunce, to whom the County Coordinator is most grateful; other researchers with information and records they would like to share with us are encouraged to do the same.
New York State Resources: 
NYGenWeb
NYGenWeb Archives
NY State Archives
Ontario County Archives
Ontario County Historian
Ontario County Historical Society
Ontario County NYGenWeb
Steuben County NYGenWeb
Schuyler County NYGenWeb
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United States Resources: 
USGenWeb
USGenWeb Archives
National Archives
Updated 3 Apr 2023
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