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ANTH 232: Anthropology of Death

Census Data

• ancestry.com
Census data, military records, vital records, directories and family trees

• U.S. Historical Census Data Browser (U.Va)
Compare data geographically, by topic, by category, and across time, 1790-1960.

• U.S. Census material in the VC Main Library and Government Documents

1790	1800	1810	1820	1830
1840	1850	1860	1870	1880
1890	1900	1910	1920	1930
1940	1950	1960	1970	1980

Local Histories

The Eagle's History of Poughkeepsie
Platt, 1905
also available in print: F129.P9 P7
Dutchess County
Federal Writer's Project, 1937
also available in print: F127.D8 F4
Main Street to Main Frames
Flad, 2009
F129.P9 F53 2009
More from the Hathi Trust
Early (mostly American) publications, many full-text searchable

Directories

Notices of marriages and deaths, about 4,000 in number, published in newspapers printed at Poughkeepsie, New York, 1778-1825

Dutchess County Historical Society, 1930

Ref F 127 D8 D92 v.4

Main F 127 D8 D92 v.4

The records of the Reformed Dutch church of New Hackensack, Dutchess county, New York

Maria Bockee Carpenter Tower, 1932

Also in print: Ref F 127 D8 D92 v.5

Newspapers

Microfilm

Poughkeepsie Eagle, 1850-1867

Poughkeepsie Eagle-News, 1915-1942

Poughkeepsie New Yorker, 1941-1960

Poughkeepse Journal, 1960-current

Online

Poughkeepsie Journal, 2002-current

New York Times Historical, 1851-2012

Vassar College Newspapers, 1872-2013

HRVH Newspapers, 1831-2013

Chronicling America (LOC), 1836-1922

Local Archival Collections

Vassar College Archives

Hudson River Valley Heritage

Historical Societies & Libraries