The Adirondack Genealogical – Historical Society
is a volunteer organization dedicated to:

   Promote, encourage, and foster the study of genealogy and family history. 

   Collect, and preserve genealogical and historical records and information related to the Saranac Lake and surrounding region.

Membership:

   Any person interested in genealogy may become a member upon payment of dues.

   Family: $7.00

   Single: $5.00

   Student: $1.00

Research Policy:

   We are pleased to offer a research service that includes a search of our local resources.

   Membership is not a requirement.

   We will charge for photocopies at 20 cents per page.

   Please submit a business sized, self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) for a response,

or you may include your email address for a more rapid reply.

 

Some of the research materials in the Saranac Lake Free library include:

 

   Census records: Microfilm – Federal and State  1840 – 1930 for

Clinton, Essex, Franklin and St. Lawrence Counties

   Local telephone directories:

1902, 1906, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1921-22, 1930 onward

   Tuberculosis patients:

Database from disinfection records of cure cottages

Trudeau Sanatorium patients

Card files

   Obituaries: database extracted for the Adirondack Daily Enterprise

   Church records

   Cemetery information updated to 2000

   Large collection of books, maps, photos in the Adirondack Room

 

Do you have any of the following items related to local history that we can add to our collection?

 

   Scrapbooks

   Manuscripts

   Photographs

   Oral history tapes

   Post cards

   Old Newspaper clippings         

 

            Contacts:

We can be contacted by US Mail at:

  Adirondack Genealogical and Historical Society
  100 Main St.
  Saranac Lake, NY, 12983

  or via E-mail to either:
  Kathryn Peightal or [email protected]

 

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