Prior to 1880 the best source for vital records was local newspapers. With this in mind, this book presents death and marriage notices abstracted from Washington County, New York, newspapers from 1799 to 1880--data which may be otherwise difficult to come

This volume contains abstracts of nearly seven thousand death notices from sixteen different newspapers. Although these newspapers were published in Steuben County, they include notices for the surrounding counties and Pennsylvania. They also include many