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Yesteryears - New York State history - Updated 12/6/2019

Updated: Dec 6, 2019

Despite having thousands of old books at our fingertips online, there are still some we have to hunt down. For example, this periodical I learned about on FamilySearch. The contents of the book were not available online when I first discovered it, but now it is!

"Yesteryears : a quarterly magazine for the appreciation and study of New York State history" was written by Francis V. Grifone (1896-1977) and published in Scipio Center, New York.

My interest in this work is for general local history and biographies written by Elizabeth M. Reese in a section called "Nutshell Biographies: of early settlers of Cayuga County". She provided a brief history-genealogy of early settlers, birth dates and places, names of parents, children, occupation, and her work was published in portions in the following volumes of Yesteryears:

p. 47-54 - Yesteryears - v. 7, no. 25 (Sept. 1963) ADAMS through BALDWIN [Link]
p. 115-122 - Yesteryears - v. 7, no. 26 (Dec. 1963) BALDWIN through BOWEN [Link]
p. 165-176 - Yesteryears - v. 7, no. 27 (Mar. 1964) BOWER through CLARK [Link]
p. 238-247 - Yesteryears - v. 7, no. 28 (June 1964) CLARK through DE SHONG [Link]
p. 37-46 - Yesteryears - v. 8, no. 29 (Sept 1964) DE SHONG through FORSHEE [Link]
p. 109-113 - Yesteryears - v. 8, no. 30 (Dec 1964) GAYLORD through GWYNN [Link]
p. 173-180 - Yesteryears - v. 8, no. 31 (Mar 1965) HALE through HOWLAND [Link]
p. 238-242 - Yesteryears - v. 8, no. 32 (June 1965) HOWLAND through KELLY [Link]
p. 52-56 - Yesteryears - v. 9, no. 33 (Sept 1965) KENYON through LOCKE [Link]
p. 106-112 - Yesteryears - v. 9, no. 34 (Dec 1965) MILLER through McINTOSH [Link]
p. 161-168 - Yesteryears - v. 9, no. 35 (Mar 1966) McINTOSH through OLMSTED [Link]
p. 217-224 - Yesteryears - v. 9, no. 36 (June 1966) ORR through PHILLIPS [Link]
p. 45-52 - Yesteryears - v. 10, no. 37 (Sept. 1966) PIERCE through REED [Link]
p. 101-108 - Yesteryears - v. 10, no. 38 (Dec. 1966) ROCKWELL through SEARLS [Link]
p. 159-164 - Yesteryears - v. 10, no. 39 (Mar. 1967) SHARPSTEEN through SPOOR [Link]
p. 216-221 - Yesteryears - v. 10, no. 40 (June 1967) SPRAGUE through THOMAS [Link]
p. 47-52 - Yesteryears - v. 11, no. 41 (Sept. 1967) THOMAS through VAN LIEW [Link]
p. 103-108 - Yesteryears - v. 11, no. 42 (Dec. 1967) VAN PATTEN through WHEELER [Link]
p. 159-164 - Yesteryears - v. 11, no. 43 (Mar. 1968) WHEELHOUSE through WINSLOW [Link]
p. 213-214 - Yesteryears - v. 11, no. 44 (June 1968) Assorted Names [Link]

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Illustration from Volume 11 - Fort Stanwix Treaty 1768