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| | State of New York |
 | | Since 1919 New York has had a system of local historians who are appointed to collect and preserve old records. |
 | | While each county, town, and village should have a historian, not all vacancies are always filled, and of those that are, the knowledge and helpfulness in answering inquiries varies. |
 | | In most cases it is best to start with the county historian, whose office may contain original or transcribed county, church, cemetery, newspaper, and other material, and in some cases, specialized indexes to these and other types of records. |
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