Olean City Directory

Online*

• 1882–1915

*This project was funded through a member project grant from the Regional Bibliographic Data Bases and Interlibrary Resources Sharing Program (RBDB) awarded to the Western New York Library Resources Council by the New York State Education Department.

The NYS Historic Newspapers project provides free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York’s unique history.  The earliest newspapers in the library’s collection have been digitized and uploaded to the NYS Historic Newspaper website as a result of funding from  the Regional Bibliographic Data Bases and Interlibrary Resources Sharing Program (RBDB) awarded to the Western New York Library Resources Council by the New York State Education Department.  Digitizing and providing online access to these newspapers allows patrons from all over the world to freely access this information.

The Olean Newspapers currently available are:

When citing a newspaper article from the NYSHN Project it is recommended that you use standard APA format for a newspaper article, with the addition of the retrieved URL.

The basic format is as follows:  Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of Article. Title of Newspaper. Retrieved from http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/REST-OF-URL.

An example would be: Sackett, H. (2007, December 29-30). Cape Cod-based airline wants to fly here. Adirondack Daily Enterprise. Retrieved from http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn86033360/2007-12-29/ed-1/seq-1/.

Cemeteries

• Allegany Cemetery
• B’Nai Israel Cemetery
• Chestnut Hill Cemetery
• Five Mile Cemetery
• Mount View Cemetery
• Pleasant Valley Cemetery
• St. Bonaventure Cemetery

Photo of Allegany Cemetery by Mary E. Bryant.

New York State Archives

http://www.archives.nysed.gov/

Indexes to vital records, war service, land records, court records, and records of some correctional and custodial institutions.

Painted Hills

http://www.paintedhills.org/

Online genealogy society for local counties. Includes cemetery listings, census records, veteran information and local history.

Social Security Death Index

https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1202535

Death records of persons who possessed Social Security numbers, generated from the U.S. Social Security Administrations Death Master File. Also available at Ancestry.com.

USGenWeb Project

http://usgenweb.org/

Includes query boards, listings of local sources for records, county and state histories, online genealogy books, research tips, maps, and links to helpful internet resources.

Historical Societies:

Cattaraugus County Historical Museum and Research Center

http://www.cattco.org/museum

City of Olean Bartlett House and Olean Point Museum

https://www.cityofolean.org/history/

Cattaraugus County Historians

http://nycattar.org/hmls/historians.htm

Chautauqua County Historians

http://chautauqua.ny.us/Directory.aspx?DID=8

Newspapers:

Digital Archives of the Allegany Public Library

http://allegany.advantage-preservation.com/

Allegany Citizen newspapers 1896-1976.

Fulton History

http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html

Historical newspapers from New York State.

New York State Historic Newspapers

http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/titles/places/new_york/

Free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York’s unique history. Olean newspapers are available here (1881-1909).