Your request is a custom research if we must search for specific information about or within a record. The fee is $20.00 per hour and is applied regardless of the success of the search. Copy fees associated with a custom search are additional. Please contact the Archives if you are unsure if your search is a custom search.
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Yes. All the information available online and more is available in hard copy finding aids and indexes in the research room of the Archives. However, if you managed to find your way here using your computer, you should have no trouble at all moving around this site and finding useful information.
There are several short videos available to view at the Persen House. You can choose whichever one piques your interest, or even all of them! When visiting the house, please ask one of our docents and we would be happy to change or restart the video of your choice.
The Persen House is open spring through late fall each year. For more information, please visit the Persen House home page and view our hours of operation and season schedule.
Genealogists are our most popular researchers. There are many record series that contain information of interest to genealogists - census records (1790-1925); naturalization records (1830-1992); birth, death and marriage records (1847-1883), (1908-1935); City of Kingston Directories (1873-1998); Pauper and Poorhouse Records (1823-1956); Ashokan Reservoir Records (1906-1958). These series and more are described in detail in our publication Genealogical and Other Resources of the Ulster C
