You don't include years included in the announcement--could you? Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill & Cathy McGrath" <seamus@nycap.rr.com> To: <gen-nys@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 6:27 AM Subject: [GEN-NYS] New Data Base > PAGE 1 - NOTICE ON NEW DATA BASE > RENSSELAER COUNTY MARRIAGE INDEX > > NOTE: PAGE 2 OF NOTICE IS ON SEPARATE EMAIL > > ANNOUNCING NEW DATABASE: > MARRIAGE INDEX FOR > RENSSELAER COUNTY, NEW YORK > > In addition to the Troy Irish Genealogy Society mailing list, this message > is also being sent to the following genealogy mailing lists: > > MAILING LIST COVERS > Rensselaer County List - Research in Rensselaer County. > Albany County List - Research in Albany County. > Schenectady County List - Research in Schenectady County. > Saratoga County List - Research in Saratoga County. > Genealogy NYS List - Research in New York State. > Chenango County List - Research in Chenango County. > NY-Hudson River List - Research in counties bordering > Hudson River; > (Rockland, Orange, > Ulster, Greene, Albany, > Rensselaer, > Columbia, Dutchess, Putnam > Westchester) & > Schenectady County. > NY-RollCall List - Research on New York State > kin. > NY-Mohawk Valley List - Research in Mohawk Valley Region of > NYS, > covers Albany, > Fulton, Herkimer, Madison, > Montgomery, > Oneida, Otsego, > Schenectady & > Schoharie Counties. > NY-WarWashSar List - Research in Warren, Washington and > Saratoga > Counties. > NYC-Roots List - Research in New York City. > New York List - Research in New York State > where County is > unknown. > Irish-NY-Troy List - Research of Irish Ancestry in > City of Troy, > Rensselaer County, > New York. > NY-Irish List - Research on Irish > immigrants who landed, > lived in or passed > through New York State. > NY-Southern List - Research in Southern counties > of New York, > covers Broome, > Bronx, Columbia, > Delaware, > Dutchess, Greene, Kings, > Nassau, New York, > Orange, Queens, > Putnam, Richmond, > Rockland, Suffolk, > Sullivan, Tioga, > Ulster & Westchester > Columbia County List - Research in Columbia County. > Westchester County List - Research in Westchester County. > Dutchess County List - Research in Dutchess County. > Schoharie County List - Research in Schoharie County. > > > > A. The message can be forwarded to other lists where you feel it would be > appropriate. If posted to any other lists, please copy: > seamus@nycap.rr.com > > B. The largest project the Troy Irish Genealogy Society has undertaken > so far is the automation of the Rensselaer County Marriage Index. This 10 > Volume Marriage Index of Rensselaer County marriages, from 1908 to 1935, > has over 60,000 names. Volume I (January 1908-April 1913) with its 5,000 > marriages and 10,000 names, was added to the TIGS website on June 13, > 2006. Volume II, (April 1913-May 1918) with another 5,000 marriages and > 10,000 names has now been completed and is now on-line on the TIGS > website. > > C. You can view these marriage records by going to the Troy Irish > Genealogy website at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ and click on > TIGS PROJECTS. It should be noted that these records, like most of the > TIGS data series, cover the general population in the area and are NOT > restricted to Irish surnames. > > D. If you are researching relatives with a RENSSELAER COUNTY, NY area > connection, you will be interested in these two on-line, name searchable, > records of 20,000 names of local residents who were married in Rensselaer > County, New York. If you live in a nearby county or even further away, you > might want to check out the data base. There are also marriages in the > data base where both individuals lived in Albany County or other nearby > counties, and where some individuals lived in other states, especially > Massachusetts and Vermont, or even foreign countries. One record even > was for a bride and groom who both lived in Pennsylvania. You may even > find an earlier marriage that you were unaware of. Take a look at the > data base, you never know what you will find. > > E. In order to appreciate the marriage index on the TIGS website, you > need an understanding of the set up of the Marriage Index book at the > County Clerk's Office. All marriages, along with complete detailed > information on the bride and groom and their parents, were first entered > into the Record of Marriages Book. Brides and Grooms names were then > posted to the Marriage INDEX Book which served as a locating device to > find the complete record in the Record of Marriages Book itself. Without > the Marriage Index, you could not easily locate a name in the Record of > Marriages Book. The Marriage Index Book has SEPARATE pages of data for > Brides and SEPARATE pages of data for Grooms. For example, for the letter > "A", there is a page of Brides names beginning with "A" and ANOTHER page > of Grooms names beginning with the letter "A". The data on each page is > limited to the first and last name, a page reference number, a marriage > license number and the date of the marriage. Names of SPO! > USES are NOT linked together in the index. The only linkage to the spouse > in the Marriage Index is the marriage number. > > F. The TIGS data base has greatly improved the usefulness of the Marriage > Index as follows: > > 1. By using the marriage number, the TIGS Marriage Index now links the > names of > the brides AND the grooms on ONE LINE of data, thus providing a much > more > useful research tool. > > 2. Some entries in the Record of Marriages Book were never posted to the > Marriage > Index Book. These missing records were identified by TIGS workers > and added > to the TIGS Marriage Index. > > 3. A number of records in the Marriage Index showed only INITIALS for > either the > bride or the groom. In many cases TIGS workers were able to > determine the > ACTUAL names from the original source documents and added them to > the TIGS > data base. > > 4. Several records for grooms names were originally posted to the brides > pages of the > Marriage Index Book and a number of brides names were posted to the > grooms > pages of the Marriage Index Book. TIGS workers corrected these > errors in > developing the TIGS index. > > 5. A number of transcribing errors when the Marriage Index Book was > created were > discovered by TIGS workers and corrected. > > 6. Last but not least, the TIGS Marriage Index is in strict alphabetical > order unlike the > original index. For example, on the original index, you may have > four or more > lengthy pages of Grooms names ALL beginning with the first two > letters "Ma" and > in no order whatsoever. > > G. In using the TIGS Marriage Index data base, keep in mind the > following: > > 1. Handwriting in some cases was very difficult to read and there could > be some > problems with spelling. > > 2. At times, the original posting to the Marriage Index Book showed the > marriage > filing data instead of the date of the marriage. This is especially > true for most of the > entries in Volume II of the Marriage Index. > > 3. Remember, the TIGS index is a transcription of the Marriage Index > Book and > NOT the Record of Marriages Book itself. It is always possible that > the original > source documents, the Affidavit For License To Marry, the > Certificate And > Record of Marriage and the Certificate of Consent, (for minors), > were not posted > correctly to the Record of Marriages Book, or that entries in the > Record of > Marriages Book were not posted correctly to the Marriage Index Book, > or that > TIGS transcribers misread the handwriting. If there is a question > on any entry, the > actual source documents at the County Clerk's Office would have to > be > referenced. > > H. In working on Volume 2 of the Marriage Index it was discovered that a > number of boxes of the original records could not be located. Extensive > searching has yet to locate these records. Photocopies of the original > Volume 2 marriage documents, therefore, are available ONLY for marriages > numbered from 5001 to 7945. For marriage numbers from 7946 to 10,000, the > only item available will be a photocopy of the full detailed record that > was posted to the Marriage Record Book FROM the original documents. (To > view a copy of the Marriage Book Record, see J. below). The County > Clerk's Office has agreed to provide a photocopy of the Marriage Record > Book entry for those names where the original documents are not available. > In order to copy the record this very heavy and large book (13 x 19) has > to be moved from the basement vault and taken to a photocopier on the > first floor > > SEE PAGE 2 OF NOTICE ON SEPARATE EMAIL > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GEN-NYS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >