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Rockland Room Microfilm Guide

A librarian will retrieve requested film. Microfilm readers are available in the AV/Periodicals Room.

Census Records:
Federal: Rockland County, NY 1790 - 1930
New York State: Rockland County, NY 1860, 1865, 1875, 1880,1892,1905,1915 & 1925

NY Census Enumeration Districts: 1830 - 1920

Telephone Directories:

New York City 1878 - 1883
Haverstraw 1884 - 1890
Nyack 1883 - 1890
Rockland County 1910 - 1998

Cross Reference Directories, Rockland County 1978 - 1999

Budke Collection: 22 reels

Clarkstown Graphic

March 1955 - December 1969
January 1991 - July 1999

Rockland County Clerk's Office

Declarations of Intentions 1817 - 1904

Naturalizations 1895 - 1906

Marriages 1908 - 1918

Surrogate Court Wills: 1798 - 1931

Haverstraw, NY Methodist Church Records 1830 - 1965

Pearl River, NY Methodist Church Records 1855 - 1952

New England Historic & Genealogical Register Index, vols. 1 - 50, 1847 - 1896

American Deaths & Marriages 1784 - 1829

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

Congers 1909
Congers including New City 1931 - 1942

Newspapers held in file cabinets

The Palisades (Camp Shanks) May 7, 1943 - February 1, 1946
Rockland County Messenger July 8, 1947 - December 24, 1896 (1884 - 1891 incomplete)

Miscellaneous Collections

Roll 1:

Rockland County Taxpayer 1929
Evening Telegram 1885 (Ulysses S. Grant funeral)
Rockland Advertiser & Chronicle 1880; September 14 1881
Eatontown (New Jersey) Advertiser October 7, 1880

Roll 2:

Orangetown News 1902 & 1903
Morning News: October 19, 1903 - November 16, 1902
Sunnyside Press June 12 & October 21, 1880
Rockland Advertiser (Nyack) 1879
Rockland Plain Dealer September 5, 1934 - December 27, 1934
Suffern Independent April 7 (World War I declared), June 30, November 10 & December 1, 1917

Newspapers held in the AV/Periodicals Room

City & County September 6, 1860 - December 30, 1916
Nyack Evening Star: June 27, 1892 - December 31, 1917
Journal News (title changes in chronological order)
Rockland County Journal August 1850 - October 1915
Nyack Evening Journal May 1889 - July 1932
Journal News August 1932 - December 1969
Journal News January 1970 - December 1898
Journal News January 1990 - present
Rockland County Times 1900 - 1970; 1999 - present
January 4, 1900 - December 30, 1939
January 4, 1941 - December 18, 1947
January 1, 1953 - December 31, 1970
Ramapo Valley Independent January 1927 - November 1956
African American newspapers from the Schomberg Center 1845 - 1966

 

 

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