INTRODUCTION TO THE SNODGRASS SOURCE BOOKS The state source books were created by Charlou Dolan. She began this massive project ca. 1986, organizing and typing the accumulation of Snodgrass research when she got "boxes and boxes" of files from Scott F. Hosier (he was Editor of The MACE 1978-1986). Those files formed the nucleus of the "source books". During her tenure as Editor of The MACE, 1987-1993 and since, Charlou has been hard at it: gathering and entering into the source books Snodgrass data, making trips to courthouses and libraries across the country, collecting files & family data from past & present members of The Snodgrass Clan Society, as well as soliciting information from many other Snodgrass researchers. The source books are one of the best tools available to anyone researching Snodgrass. One for every state, each is organized by county and within each county, info is arranged by date. These source books contain a wealth of Snodgrass research. Census readings - wills - deeds - misc. court records - marriages - deaths - obits - histories - Bible records - even queries found in genealogical publications ... all Snodgrass! Charlou's comments on the collected data are shown as < . > throughout. Any comments marked [ . ] or [vss -] were added by Violet "Suzie" Snodgrass Schoolcraft beginning in 1997, the result of reading the source books and tracing families since first joining The Snodgrass Clan Society in 1993. Any comments marked [wsj] were added by me Will Johnson (E-mail wjhonson@aol.com) due to my in most cases RE-reading census entries, adding deaths, birth, marriages, wills, bible records, internet postings, and scouring web sites over and over, and writing computer programs to scan for possible links. Just having the hyperlinks in place led to many "Ah-has!" and has in at least one case reunited cousins seperated by 150 years. PLEASE keep in mind that the source books are meant to be a reference work - they give us an idea of what has already been found. Perhaps more importantly, they show us where to look next for what is yet to be done! REMEMBER, extractions & transcriptions, notes & comments may have errors or may be missing certain portions of the original material. ALWAYS refer to the original source material whenever possible, using the source books as a starting point to guide you in your individual research. If it is SNODGRASS we at The Snodgrass Clan Society continue to collect it! Please send items (with sources cited!) you want to share with others to: Paul D. Snodgrass, at The Snodgrass Clan Society (Editor of The MACE since 1993) E-mail: paulsnodgrass@cox.net Charlou Dolan E-mail: charlou@compuserve.com (To be added to Charlou's mailing list for her updates, email her) Suzie Snodgrass Schoolcraft E-mail: snodgras@scci.net vss - October 1999 and Will Johnson E-mail : wjhonson@aol.com Creator of the Hyperlinked version all the source books and Creator of the New York Source Book NEW YORK SOURCE BOOK -- SNODGRASS FAMILY STATEWIDE All references online through ancestry.com 1850 New York Census Herkimer Co Litchfield township page 133 Snodgrass, Jane 1870 New York Census Kings Co 13W Brooklyn township page 644 Snodgrass, Eliza 1850 New York Census Kings Co Brooklyn 11th ward township page 268 Snodgrass, Thomas 1850 New York Census New York Co NY City 1st Wd E Div township page 60 Snodgrass, James 1850 New York Census New York Co NY City City Ward 9 township page 192 Snodgrass, James 1860 New York Census New York Co 9 W NYC Div 4 township page 127 Snodgrass, James 1860 New York Census New York Co 12 W NYC Div 2 township page 480 Snodgrass, James 1860 New York Census New York Co 7 W NYC District 2 township page 62 Snodgrass, Joseph 1860 New York Census New York Co 18 W NYC District 2 township page 290 Snodgrass, Robert 1830 New York Census New York Co NYC 8th Ward township page 129 Snodgrass, Thomas 1840 New York Census New York Co NYC 1st Ward township page 14 Snodgrass, Thomas 1860 New York Census New York Co 1 W NYC Div 2 township page 300 Snodgrass, Thomas 1830 New York Census New York Co NYC 3rd ward township page 139 Snodgrass, W. D. 1850 New York Census Oneida Co Lee township page 263 Snodgrass, John 1830 New York Census Oneida Co Bridgwater township page 188 Snodgrass, William 1850 New York Census Oneida Co Lee township page 263 Snodgrass, William 1860 New York Census Orange Co Goshen township page 292 Snodgrass, H. D. 1850 New York Census Orange Co Goshen township page 208 Snodgrass, William D. 1850 New York Census Rensselaer Co Sand Lake township page 345 Snodgrass, Alexander 1840 New York Census Rensselaer Co Troy 8th Ward township page 112 Snodgrass, William S. 1850 New York Census Suffolk Co Huntington township page 8 Snodgrass, John 1860 New York Census Suffolk Co Huntington township page 399 Snodgrass, John 1915 New York STATE Census, Albany Election District 1 Ward 12 page 2 Snodgrass, Kate V New York City New York Marble Cemetary Records 1830-1937 Snodgrass, Alathea D b 1842 bur 2 Aug 1843 Snodgrass, Benjamin b 1844 bur 14 Aug 1844 Snodgrass, Charlotte H b 1831 bur 9 Mar 1832 Snodgrass, Martha D b 1830 bur 12 Mar 1831 Snodgrass, Matilda D b 1841 bur 8 Aug 1841 Marriages Source "New York marriages previous to 1784" online at www.ancestry.com Andrew Snodgrass, merchant to Eleonora Maxwell,widow 6 Dec 1781 Record M.B. Volume XXXIV Page 76 Source New York City Directory 1869 Snodgrass, George V, agent h 113 W 26th Snodgrass, James h 262 W 11th Snodgrass, John, smith, h 439 E 23rd Snodgrass, Joseph E, physician h 184 E B'way Headline: AIDS ACTIVIST AT CENTER OF MAIL CONTROVERSY DIES Publication Date: December 04, 1995 Source: Buffalo News Page: C2 Subjects: Region: New York Obituary: Fred Grounds, a former coal miner whose postman refused to deliver his mail because Grounds and his wife had AIDS, died Friday. He was 46. The couple made national news earlier this year when they moved into a Charleston hospice and learned their mail was not being delivered. Postal worker Tim Snodgrass refused to deliver the mail, saying he was afraid of contracting the disease. Grounds, a hemophiliac, said he contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion and unknowingly infected his wife. Grounds was a member of the directors' housing board of Covenant House, which provided housing for people with AIDS. He also was a member of the West Virginia Hemophilia Foundation and the Charleston AIDS Network. Headline: DR. THOMAS DEPERNA, DENTIST AT GOWANDA CENTER Publication Date: September 16, 1996 Source: Buffalo News Page: B6 Subjects: Region: New York Obituary: Dr. Thomas C. DePerna, 69, of Gowanda, a dentist at the former Gowanda Psychiatric Center, died unexpectedly Friday (Sept. 13, 1996) in Tri-County Hospital, Gowanda. Born in Albany, he was an Army veteran. He earned a pharmacy degree from Union University at Albany College of Pharmacy and was a graduate of the McGill University Faculty of Dentistry in Montreal. He was a dentist at Gowanda Psychiatric Center for 20 years, retiring in 1983. DePerna was a 50-year member of Post 110, American Legion, in Catskill. He was an avid hunter and fisherman. He married Phyllis Kutscher in 1955. In addition to his wife, survivors include a son, David of Jamestown; two daughters, Elaine Snodgrass of Warsaw, Ohio, and Wendy Huber of Catskill; and five grandchildren. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Schindler Funeral Home, 44 Center St., Gowanda. Interment will be in Catskill Rural Cemetery.