The Otego Historical Association
Otego History Research Center

Welcome to the Otego Historical Assoication Online Research Center. The Society is in the process of digitizing their more rare and important books and documents and making them available via the website to the world. Please feel free to search and enjoy all we have to offer to make your genealogy or historical quest a success.

Publications will be added as time permits, so please check back to see what's new. You may also want to check out the search engine instructions to use this feature to its' fullest.

A History of Otego,  Stuart Banyar Blakely - 1907

A Bicentennial History of Otego, Helena Northup Myers - 1976  ---    HELP TO UPDATE THIS BOOK

Society Newsletters

The Then and Now Project - 2009

A History and A Remembrance of the Village of Otego, Helen Secor Groves - 1992

Otego From 1842 - 1889, Levi Coburn - 1889

Snippets from Early Newspapers

Note from the Webmaster:
These illustrations are from another site I maintain but the instructions are the same for the search feature here. The "return a search" illustration will reflect information found here at the Otego Historical Site and not the information from the other site. This is a very useful and powerful search feature to save you a great amount of time.

How do I use the
Search Feature?

In the Library you'll find the following publications:
1. History of Otego - 1907
2. Bicentennial History of Otego -1976
3. Newsletters and More!

Now that's a lot of reading! ... especially if you're looking for something as simple as a question about "hand brakes".  Using the Search Box will allow you to look through all those books at lightning speed to find your answer!

Please note the little drop down menu in the search box above. Using this will make your search more precise.

All words: If you were to type in "hand brakes", the search will locate all documents that have those words . So you'll find "hand signals" along with "stuck brakes".

Any words: This will return any page that has "hand" and/or "brake" as a part of other words (e.g. handle or brakeline).

Exact phrase: This is the way to look up a question. This will return a search that will only find "hand brakes" as seen below.

Clicking on "Find (on this Page)" will bring up the search box below... type in "hand brakes" and just "Find Next" your way thru the page till you find your answer. It's that quick and easy!