Dee, I was not aware that you could order birth, marriage, and death certificates from the LDS Library. How do you go about doing that? I have also spent a fortune on certificates from the NYC Vital Records Bureau. Veronica > [Original Message] > From: <irish-new-york-city-request@rootsweb.com> > To: <irish-new-york-city@rootsweb.com> > Date: 11/2/2007 3:19:24 AM > Subject: IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY Digest, Vol 2, Issue 98 > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: A word...about researching calvary or other cemeteries > (LookingBack45@aol.com) > 2. Re: A word...about researching calvary or other cemeteries > (Marge Spille) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:34:56 EDT > From: LookingBack45@aol.com > Subject: Re: [IRISH-NYC] A word...about researching calvary or other > cemeteries > To: irish-new-york-city@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <c56.21bdbcec.345ba080@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > > In a message dated 10/31/2007 5:06:13 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > catherine.windsor@gmail.com writes: > > Also we are paying a fee, which is fine > but they should be more careful. I did not pay the perpetual care. > > > > ================== > > I had forgotten about them asking for perpetual care. I didn't pay > either....I couldn't afford it. As I said in one of my other post, I did consider my > experience good, yet many of the same things happened to me with names, etc. > I started out with some very old receipts for the graves which had the name > of the person buying them and the date, Abt 1900 and on. These came to me > when an older relative passed away and I had no idea they even existed. When > I wrote Calvary them about getting the information, etc., they wrote and told > me what the search would cost. I paid over $100, can't remember now, as > there were 4 graves with quite a few people buried him them. I am still looking > for the connection between my family name and two children what are buried > there by names I don't recognize. I assume they were married names and > somehow related to the family. I also had two graves searched in Greenwood Cemetery > in Brooklyn. For me the searches were worth every cent of the cost because > I was only expecting to find my grandparents and a few aunts and uncles in > the graves. I was able to turn up many children from both my grandparent's > families that I would never have known about. Although the last names were > spelled differently, I could usually tell who they were. I'm also not sure if > all the misspelled names are the cemetery's fault. It seems that the names I'm > researching, at least several of them, are misspelled from one certificate > to another. These are Italian names and not that common. As frustrating as it > is to be given the wrong spelling or a "not" found, I'm not sure if there > is any thing we can do about that. Does anyone have a suggestion? I know that > at the time I used them, I believe they were filed by burial date (Calvary) > and not name. I guess once they get a burial date they can check the plot > for others. Greenwood is online now, but I originally wrote to them and said > I was looking for a great grandfather who died and left my great grandmother > a widow and I gave them the timeframe when I thought the death occurred. > They did find it for me and sent me the cost for the search. They were very > helpful and I feel very fortunate now when I think of what might have > happened. I had over a page of burials. > > To sum it up for new researches, keep trying. If not again now, at a later > time. Also, if you have a death certificate number you can get copies of > certificates for $2 each from the LSD Library. I've gotten many by first > getting the numbers from the Italian Genealogy Research Site (not just for Italian > names) and then sending for them at the LDS. I've also done this with birth > and marriage certificates. Up until then I was paying for one at a time from > NYC and it was costing a fortune. > > Good luck everyone, > > Dee (Wishing I was in NY doing research!) > > > > ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 18:12:56 -0400 > From: spille2@webtv.net (Marge Spille) > Subject: Re: [IRISH-NYC] A word...about researching calvary or other > cemeteries > To: irish-new-york-city@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <BAY124-DAV16AA1D0CF2C132DD09C6BE48C0@phx.gbl> > Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII > > Hi List, > > Does anyone that lives in NYC ever go to the National Archives. I am > searching for a marriage and need a lookup on the "New York Stete Vital > Record" film There are only 3 vp[ord of this films, NY State Library in > Albany, Rochester Puvlic Lirary and the Northeast National Archies. I > have used all other methods to find this record. If anyone plans a trip > to any of these locations and would be willng to do a lookup please let > me know. > > Marge > > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY list administrator, send an email to > IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY mailing list, send an email to IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY Digest, Vol 2, Issue 98 > **************************************************