The Steele Memorial Library is the largest branch of the Chemung County Library District located in Elmira, NY. It is the mission of the Chemung County Library District to provide exceptional public library services and programs to our citizens; fulfilling their individual needs for educational, recreational, and cultural information through contemporary, well-maintained library collections and facilities located throughout Chemung County. The Steele Memorial Library has a vast genealogy and local history collection that includes Elmira newspapers, Federal and state census records on microfilm, local cemetery records, New York State Vital Statistics records on microfiche and much more.

THE STEELE MEMORIAL LIBRARY INFORMATION

• CCLD Home Page--http://www.ccld.lib.ny.us
• CCLD Genealogy Page--http://www.ccld.lib.ny.us/genealogy_links.htm
• CCLD Facebook--http://facebook.com/chemunglibs

MISSION STATEMENT

This digital collection of Chemung County and City of Elmira Atlases fulfills the Library District’s 2008-2012 initiative to, “To extend the effectiveness of the library’s special collections and preserve their value for the indefinite future, explore the technical feasibility of and funding for digitizing local history and locally generated genealogy records.” In the future we plan to add images from our local high school yearbook collection.