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| | Genesee County,New York GenWeb |
 | | Originally Genesee County comprised virtually all of Western New York and was divided into only four "Shires" or towns; Batavia, Northampton, Southampton, and Leicester. |
 | | Gradually, parcels of land were taken from Genesee County to form other counties; Allegany (1806), Cattaraugus (1808), Chautauqua (1808), Niagara (1808), part of Livingston (1821), part of Monroe (1821), Erie (1821), Orleans (1824) and Wyoming (1841). |
 | | Genesee Area Genealogists is an organization of people from Genesee, Wyoming, Ontario, Erie and Livingston counties plus others from around the country and the world which meets on the third Tuesday of ten months a year (February through November) at 7 pm in the Richmond Memorial Library at 19 Ross St., Batavia, NY. |
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