Fonda city (Buffalo, Albany, Montgomery: city hall, living in, rated)

[mccraig]

Hi everybody,

I need your help. I am living in Canada ( Quebec) and doing my genealogy. I think that my ggrand-mother borned in Fonda city, Montgomery counties, N-Y
I need to know if there is any Archives center for this city and if so what is there email adress or the email adress of the city hall.
It will be great if you could give me this information.

Thank you,
J.McCraig

[rug city]

Montgomery County Department of History and Archives

[BuffaloTransplant]

Fonda is not a city, but a town. I think you need to research the censuses and find the family; I use Ancestry ( I pay). The US censuses are every 10 years and the ones to 1930 are available. They open - I think - 75 years after they were taken. They go back to the decade the town was formed. When you find the family, generally a town historian will help you out; every thown in the US has a historian ( you can ask the Dept. of History & Archives who it is or look on Rootsweb). If you can, check the NY State censuses - they are on the 5 years: 1855, 1865, 1875, etc. They are at the NY StateLibrary in Albany. if you have a Mormon Church near you, they might have a Family History Center; that library is open to all and you can reszearch and if you find files, they order them for you. Good luck.

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by BuffaloTransplant

Fonda is not a city, but a town.

Fonda is neither a city nor a town.

Fonda is a village (incorporated in 1850) in the Town of Mohawk, Montgomery County.


For the definition of county, city, town, village, hamlet and postal zone, please see:
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[BuffaloTransplant]

Thanks, Walter. I stand corrected. I was thinking of town in terms of "small"; it is not a city in temrs of "large"... I was being generic.