The last couple of weeks have been very busy at the library getting ready for the new season. We received a major bequest of over 200 books from the family of Betty Bellinger Bateman who was a life-long genealogist. Betty had family connections in Pennsylvania and New York including Palatine ancestors. She had ancestors from Union County and the Susquehanna and Buffalo Valleys in Pennsylvania. In New York her ancestors were from the Mohawk Valley and Jefferson and St. Lawrence Counties. You can view her gift at http://www.nnyacgs.com/files/BATEMAN2.pdf . Betty's research will be available in our Family Section.
The library bought or had donated to us many books this year. We bought protestant church records from southern Quebec. Donations included Vermont military records of those who fought in various wars, Chazy, NY church records and several Acadian descendant books. View the list at http://www.nnyacgs.com/newmaterial.html . The new books will be on display in Room 2 until November. We are going to need a lot of new shelving for our new aquisitions and so are saving money toward that end. It should be a great year.
