Gilbertsville Library E-mail link - This library is located in the South Western      
portion of Otsego County in the town of Butternuts. Click here to visit their web page.

An Overview of What's Available at the Gilbertsville Library
Available at all times the library is open:

Genealogies, local, regional and New York state histories and historical reference books

Selection of Family and Genealogy Files

Cemetery records – [our records are not on-line]

Town of Butternuts, East Guilford, town of Guilford, Sidney, Unadilla

Funeral Director Records, 1894-1975

Census Records: 
On microfilm, Federal 1790 – 1930, N.Y. State, 1855-1905
Hard copy:    1790  -   Conn.,   Mass.,  New Hampshire, New York,     
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia,
1800 - Otsego County
1855, 1865, 1875,  – Town of Guilford, transcriptions
1855, 1865, 1875, 1892, -Town of Unadilla, transcriptions
Transcription   &   Index for Butternuts’ Census
1790,	1800,	1810
1820,   1830,	1840
1850,   1855,   1860 Index Only
1865,   1870 Index Only
			
Tax Records – Microfilm -  Otsego County 1799-1803 – all townships

Church Records: Baptist, 1806-1914 (microfilm), Index - Episcopal, 1833-1918, Index 
Methodist-Episcopal, 1848-1923, Index - Presbyterian/Congregational, 1797-1932, Index


School Records, including Gilbertsville Academy & Collegiate Institute 1814 – 2004
School Commission Minutes, 1814-1874, microfilm
District School minutes, 1822- 1947, incomplete
Year books, Gilbertsville C.S. 1895-1990
GMU 1991-2004
Mt. Upton Central 1976-1990

Post cards, Atlases and Maps

Newspapers: on microfilm:
The Morris Chronicle, 1865-1932 [some years missing]
The Otsego Journal, 1876-1965

Revolutionary War veterans information and Civil War veterans information

Village and Town Structural Inventory forms; all village structures and some 
structures in the township

Otsego County Board of Representatives, annual reports, 1804-2003

Additional family, organizational, town, village, and business records, as well as 
photographs,  blueprints and scrapbooks, available by appointment. For an appointment  
call 607-783-2832 or, if no answer,  607-783-2820





The Huntington Library  This is the largest public library in Otsego County and is 
located in the city of Oneonta. From this site you can search the Four County Library 
System database and connect to a page listing items contained in the library's New York 
State History Room.  Records include searchable obituary indexes, genealogy files, state 
and federal census schedules, city directories, yearbooks, and scrapbooks.  Contact 
librarian Sarah Livingston for more information and to search the obituary database.



New York State Historical Association - Research Library This library is not on-line. 
However this site can give you more information on their collection. Anyone with Otsego 
County connections will find a wealth of resources at the Research Library of the New 
York State Historical Association at Cooperstown. A basic or individual membership is 
$45 and a household membership (two individuals) is $60. The reference fee for non-members 
of the association is $35 (research by mail) and allows for up to 10 photocopies. The daily 
use fee for non-members remains $9. NYSHA members, NYSHA volunteers, and students are exempt.



In addition to the above libraries, you will find several publications relating to 
Otsego County in the in Making of America Digital Collection at Cornell University. 
Below is the main link to that collection.     

The Cornell Univeristy Digital Library Includes the Making of America Collection, The 
Math Book Collection, The Ezra Cornell Papers, NEH Agriculture Collection and several 
Otsego County related books and manuscripts..