If this is your first visit to the Cattaraugus County Rootsweb site, let me suggest a few of the KEY links. To get a feel for the county and its history, visit Towns and County page . From there you will find links to each individual town, and much information to help you. 

The next thing that you may want to do is contact others who are researching the same surnames or may have knowledge of the information you are seeking.  There are two great  ways to share information.  The NYCATTAR mailing list, and the NYCATTAR message boards.  

If you subscribe to the NYCATTAR mailing list, you will be notified via when someone posts to the NYCATTAR message boards.  The number of people on the list varies, and they come and go, currently it reaches a few hundred people.   The broadest and most enduring method to communicate with others is via the NYCATTAR message boards.  Here you can post a message that over time will be seen by thousands of people for several years to come.  Often you will get replies to message board posts that you made years before.

We have a lot of on-line information, the PICO search is a way to search this entire site for any occurance of a family surname.  A word of caution here.  Often times, names are sometimes misspelled in the data.  If your search doesn't turn up anything, you may want to try some other spelling variations.  Even if you fail to find your ancestor with the PICO search,  and you are reasonably sure your ancestor has a connection to  this county, you should browse the on-line data bases.

On Line Data Base.   We have many,  such as  Cemeteries , Biographies from Historical Books,  and some Census records.   If your ancestor was in the military, such as the Civil War or the World Wars, we have some great data bases of Cattaraugus folks in the Military.  We also have several links to other military web sites.  We also links to Homepages with Cattaraugus County connections. If you have a link you would like to see added, please let me know .

When you've exhausted your online research, you will want to check out Historians, Museum and Libraries, to get the address of where to write for further information. Don't forget to send a SASE when you write. 

 TIP: Do you get confused when someone says they are your  3^rd Cousin twice removed?   The State Library of North Carolina developed an excellent explanation and CHART to help make sense of it.  Easy to read, and easy to use.   They graciously provided it for posting here.