Collections – Indexes and Finding Aids
Online Indexes
Indexes to several of our collections are available online, as well as a listing of recent acquisitions to the library:
Recent Acquisitions
Biography Listings
Cemetery Listings
Church Records on Microfilm
French Scrapbooks Index
Hays Family Papers
Index to Mackenzie’s “The Families of the Colonial Manor of Philipsburg”
Jiggetts Collection
McDonald Papers Index: Volume 1 A-L | Volume 2 M-U | Volume 3 V-Z, Locations
Mead Family Papers Inventory
Odell Family Papers
Richard Maass Collection on Arnold/Andre
The Westchester Historian index, 1925 – 1989
The Westchester Historian index, 1990 – 2019
Online Collections Database
The Westchester County Historical Society online collections database contains more than 90,000 photo records and 12,000 library records, including finding aids for nearly 150 special collections. This database does not include all of our holdings, but new records are being added on a regular basis.
The Virtual Archives is a collaborative effort of the Westchester County Archives and the Westchester County Historical Society, presenting the best examples of Westchester’s public and private documents.
Collections and Finding Aids
Books and PamphletsGenealogy Collection
Manuscripts
Additional holdings available for research on Westchester families
Scharf’s History of Westchester County (colonial – 1886)
Mackenzie’s “Families of the Colonial manor of Philipsburg” (colonial – early 1800’s)
McDonald Papers (Revolutionary Period)
French’s Scrapbook Collection (1880 – 1925)
Marriage and death notices from Westchester newspapers (1830 – 1875)
Pelletreau’s Early Wills of Westchester (1664 – 1784) and New York Historical Society “Abstract of Wills” (1665 – 1800)
Genealogy Files (by family name)
Periodical Index (WCHS holdings – includes NYG&B Record, Connecticut Ancestry, TAG, local Westcheter periodicals)
Cemetery index (WCHS holdings – 18th-20th century)
Manuscripts index (WCHS holdings – mostly 19th century)
The Westchester Historian (WCHS quarterly, published 1925 – current)
Colonial censuses and Federal censuses, 1790 – 1840, 1850 – 1930
County almshouse records (ca. 1880 – 1908)
Orphanage records: Children’s Village, Lincoln Hall, Wartburg, Graham-Windham (19th- 20th centuries)
Church records (microfilmed records of approximately 30 Westchester Churches)
Other (local histories, published military records, etc.)