Tocco Family Niagara County, NY

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Find A Grave

All the gravestone pictures with links included here come from the Find A Grave website. You can search for any last name, first name, or location combination you might want. Besides gravestone pictures you'll also find some family photos, obituaries, birth, death and burial information, and family details. Anyone can use the site for free without any membership requirements. Quite a resource for anybody interested in family history.

Newspaper Articles

For newspaper articles, the website www.fultonhistory.com has thousands of old newspapers from all across NY State, digitally scanned from many microfilms, and searchable on the website (link doesn't work on iPhone/iPad). The following is a list of old Lockport newspapers on www.fultonhistory.com:

Lockport NY Union Sun Journal 1916-1972

Lockport NY Journal 1901-1905

Lockport NY Daily Journal 1871-1898

Lockport NY Daily Journal Courier 1859-1870

For Lockport newspapers after 1972 you will need to visit the Lockport Library in person since they only have the newspapers on microfilm. Current articles are available online at the Lockport Union Sun and Journal website.

Public Historic Resources

For more information about Niagara County you can visit the following local sites although the 'Tocco' name is not specifically mentioned in any of them:

The History Center of Niagara County

Niagara County Historian's Office

Niagara County Genealogical Society

http://www.linkpendium.com/niagara-ny-genealogy/

The Buffalo Architecture and History website (search for Lockport) has extensive historical resources for many places in Western New York. It has a comprehensive history of Lockport from 1800 through 2011 that includes information about Transit Rd., Akron Rd., and Route 77 (Lewiston Rd.)

There are United States Property Atlases with historic maps of Niagara County at Historic Map Works. These property maps show detail about counties, towns, cities, roads, and property owners names for much of the United States including the towns of Lockport and Royalton.

Also, here's a link to the online book The History of Niagara County 1878, Sanford & Company, New York, Cornell University Library.

Here's a couple more interesting websites.

https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/

- - - Links to Death Indexes and more.

https://www.familysearch.org/en/

- - - Requires you to create a free account. Offers genealogical records, education, and software. It is operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

http://orleans.nygenweb.net/tandv/ridgeway.htm

Town of Ridgeway Cemetery records

http://orleans.nygenweb.net/cemeteries/cemetery.htm

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