The historical societies and individual historians listed below want to help guide you in your family research. We're aware that there are other historians but not everyone wants to be listed in a public forum or has the time to give extensive help.
Few townships have a budget to assist their historians.
When writing for assistance, please always include a S.A.S.E. and several additional stamps, offer to pay copying and mailing costs, collect phone calls, etc . Historians receive many requests for assistance, and appreciate it if you submit one focused research question about a particular person or family unit at a time . During my visit to Herkimer County in September 1997, I was told that some o four site visitors were sending the same research requests to different historians who, after each putting in hours of volunteered time, later find out from each other that they'd reinvented the wheel. It's a small world in the two counties and they're using the identical historical resources to help you. Legitimate grumbling was heard - and this is not unique to our two counties' historians.