List members may be interested in this data base which has information on 2,303 individuals who were born in Ireland. ANNOUNCING NEW DATABASE BOOK 2 - INTERMENT INDEX ST. AGNES CEMETERY, MENANDS NEW YORK INTERMENT YEARS - 1883-1910 A. Book 2, part of a multi-volume set of Interment Records at St. Agnes Cemetery, Menands, NY, which includes 6,073 names, has now been added to the Troy Irish Genealogy website. This new data series of interment records list an individuals name, date of death and age at death. In a large number of records, the age is reported in years, months and days. It is interesting to note that there were 714 deaths of children under the age of 1 and 697 deaths of children ages 1 to 16. Those records that have no date of death are shown with the interment date and are identified by an asterisk (*). Some early deaths dating prior to 1883, are most likely re-interments from the State Street Burial site which was located at the site of present day Washington Park. Many of those in the Catholic section of this old cemetery were moved to St. Agnes Cemetery under an 1868 authorization. B. You can view these interment records by going to the Troy Irish Genealogy website at: www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ and click on PROJECTS and then click on ST. AGNES CEMETERY, MENANDS, NY - INTERMENT RECORDS. 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. C. Researchers having relatives with a CAPITAL DISTRICT area connection, will be interested in these on-line, name searchable, online records of names of individuals who were interred in St. Agnes Cemetery. If you live in a nearby county or even further away, you might want to check out these names. Take a look at the data base, you never know what you will find. D. The TIGS website has a PRINTABLE FORM that can be used to request more information from the Albany Diocesan Cemeteries. Mailing instructions and fees (only $5.00) are on the request form. Additional items that may be available from the full interment record may include: 1. PLACE OF BIRTH: Some interesting statistics based on the place of birth reported in this interment book containing 6,073 individual records are: a. 2,922 were born in the City of Albany. Albany was the birthplace of the largest number of individuals in the interment records. Other Capital Region cities/towns showed the following for place of birth: Troy-68, Cohoes-49, West Troy (now Watervliet)-18, Watervliet-136, Greenbush-7, Green Island-11, Schenectady-9, Menands-10, Rensselaer-17, Colonie-17. b. 2,303 were born in Ireland. Ireland had the second largest number of individuals in the interment records. Other countries showed 173 born in the following countries: Austria-1, Belgium-3, Canada-46, England-20, France-5, Germany-50, Hungary-1, Italy-34, Poland-1, Scotland-8, Sweden-1, Switzerland-1, The Netherlands-2. c. 77 were born in the following states: Connecticut-9, Illinois-3, Kentucky-1, Maryland-1, Massachusetts-25, Michigan-2, New Jersey-15, North Dakota--1, Ohio-1, Pennsylvania-4, Rhode Island-1, Texas-1, Vermont-9, Virginia-3, Washington, DC-1. d. The remaining 256 records reflect births in various New York State cities/towns outside the Capital Region and 6 records identified only as "America or USA" and 24 records that show no place of birth. 2. PLACE OF DEATH: While a number of the area communities like Troy, Cohoes, Colonie, Green Island, Watervliet, Menands are reported as the place of death, the overwhelming number of deaths, 4,807 out of the 6,073 records, occurred in the city of Albany. A smaller number of deaths occurred in other areas of New York State or in other states. 3. RESIDENCE ADDRESS: The bulk of these interment records will show a street address with a house number. A lesser number may only show the street name or street intersections while some others may just mention the name of the city where the death occurred. 4. INTERMENT DATE: The date of interment in St. Agnes Cemetery may be another clue which will be helpful to genealogy and family researchers. 5. IN WHOSE LOT THEY ARE INTERRED: Most of these entries show the first and last name of lot owners and in some cases show multiple family names as the lot owners. 6. LOT NUMBER. 7. SECTION NUMBER. 8. UNDERTAKER: The reporting of the name of the undertaker was a later addition to the interment pages. Only 2,739 of the 6,073 records show the name of the undertaker. E. Stay tuned for Book 3 coming soon. This book, covering interments from 1886 to 1903 will have over 12,000 names. Hopefully you will find some of your ancestors listed in Book 2 of the Interment Index or in the various other data series on the Troy Irish Genealogy website. Regards, Bill McGrath TIGS Project Coordinator Clifton Park, NY