Hi Everyone, It is time again for the newsletter. If anyone one has any articles, pictures, recipes, book reviews etc... they want in the upcoming newsletter, please email me off list. The newsletter committee has some really good articles for this edition, so if you are not a dues paying member, get your dues in to receive your issue. Cheers, Lizette

Friday April 18 ,, 2008Troy Record Article 100years agoSaturday April 18 ,1908 “David McGregor testifies that he found the murder weapon used in the killing of Agnes Johnson hours after her murder.He discovered a bloody razor with bloody fingerprints on the handle lying on the ground outside the Stanton Brewery Building. He turned it over to an brewery employee. Detective John Lawrenson also testifies he accompanied Captain Rohn of the Second precinct to Pittsfield to pick up Farnaro on April 11th. Lawreson says that Farnaro told him how he killed Agnes Johnson during the train trip back to Troy. Farnaro’s attorney,Timothy Quillinan objects but is overruled by Police Court magistrate Abbott H Jones .According to Lawrenson, Farnaro confronted Agnes in the alley but asked her to come home with him. Agnes refused and pulled a razor from her sleeve and made a slash at his face.Farnaro claimed he caught hold of the woman's arm and while the razor was still in her hand he pulled the arm across her throat, inflicting the wound.Farnaro also said Agnes stole the razor from his room several days prior. Troy is also the spring training home of the Johnstown-Gloversville franchise. New owner J. Louis Bacon. A former Troy manager, is using the 15th street Grounds while he and the NYS League negotiate a new home for the ‘Hyphens’. Photo of the day Troy Record Friday April 18, 2008 1949 photo of Eleanor Stellato Collison Troy High graduation PS if you click on the below link it will take you to the Troy Record newspaper website. From there at the top click on Opinions then click on This Day in the Record and it will give you about a current weeks worth of This day in History. _http://www.troyrecord.com/WebApp/appmanager/JRC/BigDaily_ (http://www.troyrecord.com/WebApp/appmanager/JRC/BigDaily) ?_ **************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&?NCID=aolfod00030000000002)

I am 81 years old and I say it is OK to show it. I worked across the railroad tracks from Mame Faye's . However I think it was after the main time of her career. However the older employees of Bumpsteased Chevrolet told me about some of the events. It ids a part of history. AL

Hi, Just wondering if anyone got the Mame faye video. I was thinking of getting a copy to watch with my father who grew up in that area of Troy back in the 30s. Is this an okay thing to show to some conservative parents? Thx, Mike

Wednesday April 16 ,2008TroyRecord Article100yearsagoThursday April 16 ,, 1908 “Troy Girl writes anonymously TO THE Record about the report published last week in which 2 college sociology students worked in a collar factory for a week and wrote a an article saying Troy girls were lazy: ‘Every one knows that the average Troy factory girl is bright and intelligent, that she is capable of making a good living at work which, if not requiring skill, is at least clean, light and honest and enables her to be independent. There are many factory girls capable of filling better positions but the salaries they would earn at such would not equal what they earn in the factories.As for girls thinking of nothing but mashes(flirtations).Among my acquaintances are many who study hard every spare moment to develop talents which they possess.Miss Weeks was no doubt laboring under a sense of her own when she misconstrued the superintendents interest in her.In my estimation they are two narrow minded young women, looking for notoriety, and if they be specimens of the regular college girl, I for one for one do not regret my lack of such education,as I would not change my views for their education or narrow mindedness.” PS if you click on the below link it will take you to the Troy Record newspaper website. From there at the top click on Opinions then click on This Day in the Record and it will give you about a current weeks worth of This day in History. _http://www.troyrecord.com/WebApp/appmanager/JRC/BigDaily_ (http://www.troyrecord.com/WebApp/appmanager/JRC/BigDaily) ?_ **************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&?NCID=aolfod00030000000002)

I found out yesterday that if you are able to go to the County Clerk's Office in person with the info from the TIGS website marriage index, you will leave in just a few minutes with copies of your documents. Truly amazing, and for only $5.00 I got back another whole generation on both sides. This will be a nice surprise for my friend's mom who is turning 90 next week. She will now know the names of all her grandparents, all from Poland. Other info includes occupations, age at time of marriage, witnesses names, Church and minister performing the ceremony. I'm putting together a nice little family tree for her, and including these documents. Donna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill & Cathy McGrath" <seamus@nycap.rr.com> To: <NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 1:09 PM Subject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Marriage Index Project & Volunteers > > A. List members may be interested in how the work is done on the > Rensselaer County Marriage Index Project and who does > the work. The following items may be of interest and may trigger more > volunteers to help on this major project. > > 1. First of all, TIGS uses their own laptop computer and scanner. The > IBM laptop was purchased with TIGS dues money and the scanner was > donated by Jeanne Keefe, the TIGS webmaster. Local TIGS members use this > equipment to scan the Marriage Index Books in the basement of the County > Clerk's Building on Third Street in Troy. > > 2. The combined index for Volume 6 and 7, with 4,000 marriages and 8,000 > names is currently being worked on. Two sessions of scanning the Grooms > names resulted in 231 pdf files which were sent to volunteers for > transcribing. Transcribing and proof reading of these 231 files is 99% > complete. On May 1, 2008 the first pages were sent to volunteers for > transcribing. > > 3. The TIGS Project Coordinator sends the pdf files and the Excel sheet > to individual transcribers. As each page is returned an additional page > is then sent to the worker. All returned pages are then sent to a proof > reader to double check the data entry. When all the Grooms files are > finished they will be sorted in marriage number order and analyzed to > identify missing marriage numbers or duplicate numbers. > > 4. The next step in the process is to scan the 4,000 Brides names and > create pdf files to send to the volunteers. This work will be started in > the next few days. > > 5. Work on data entry of the Grooms names has involved 21 volunteers from > all over the country. Here is a state by state breakdown of the > volunteers: > > New York State - 13 > Albany -1 > Clifton Park - 3 > Poughkeepsie - 1 > Saratoga Springs - 1 > Troy - 3 > Wynantskill - 2 > Williamson - 1 > Syracuse - 1 > > Massachusetts - 3 > Pennsylvania - 2 > Iowa - 1 > Virginia -1 > Tennessee - 1 > > 6. As you may know, the following volumes of the Marriage Index with > their 32,000 names are currently on-line on the Troy Irish Genealogy > website www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ > > Vol. 1 5,000 marriages with 10,000 Names January 1908-April > 1913 > Vol. 2 5,000 marriages with 10,000 Names April 1913-July > 1918 > Vol. 3 2,000 marriages with 4,000 Names May 1918-April > 1920 > Vol. 4 & 5 4,000 marriages with 8,000 Names April 1920-January > 1924 > > 7. Photocopies of documents on file OR of the record in the marriage > book for these 16,000 marriages, are available from the County Clerk's > Office for a fee of $5.00. Separate request forms for EACH Volume with > the necessary instructions can be printed from the TIGS website. > > B. Additional volunteers can always be used to work on the Marriage Index > Project. The quicker the data entry process, the faster each index can be > put on-line on the TIGS website. Volunteers can help as follows: > > 1. Become a volunteer transcriber. All you need on your computer is > Adobe, which can be downloaded free and Excel. Data entry items are > minimal; last name, first name, page number, marriage number and date of > marriage. As all the work is handled through email, volunteers can be > located anywhere in the world. > > 2. The following need for volunteers can only be done by capital area > residents as the work has to be done at the County Clerk's Office in Troy. > As previously noted, the index for Volume 8 does not show the marriage > number and the date of the marriage. So, before we can scan these pages, a > look-up of the page number in the Marriage Book itself must be made to > obtain the marriage number and the date of the marriage for each name on > the index. Photocopies of all the pages in the Vol. 8 index have already > been made and now we need volunteers to post the marriage number and the > marriage date to the photocopied index pages. We will also face this > problem when we get to Volume 9 and Volume 10, the last two books of this > record series. > > If anyone is interested in volunteering to help with EITHER of the above > items, they can email me off list at seamus@nycap.rr.com . > > Regards, > > Bill McGrath > TIGS Project Coordinator > Clifton Park, NY > > > ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== > Did you pay your 2008 Dues? > Troy Irish Genealogy Society > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Support@FamilySearch.org wrote: Thank you for contacting FamilySearch Support regarding improper charges being made in the Albany New York Family History Center ( Located in Loudonville) for the use of Ancestry.com. The Director of that center was called and she assured me that no such charges are being made. She also reported that the only Ancestry they have available is the rather limited version available to Family History Centers at ancestryinstitution.com Just an additional note. Charges for any use of the internet in a Family History Center is not permitted and the director was aware of that. Krisw1946@aol.com wrote: >If you do not want to pay the fees for ancestry there are other ways of >using it. Some libraries have a subscription, such as the Troy library, or see >if there is a LDS center close to you. There's one in Loudonville and for a >dollar fee you can access ancestry on their computer. >Kris White > > > >**************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with >Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. >(http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&?NCID=aolfod00030000000002) >===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== >Did you pay your 2008 Dues? >Troy Irish Genealogy Society >http://www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >

Pat I looked at the site and you have done a wonderful job. Its usually so hard to get records-your doing all uof us a great service! In a message dated 5/28/2008 6:01:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, nymets11@pacbell.net writes: This week the Surname Registry was updated with another 100 names. So far, over 300 names have been added in May. We still have a backlog of over 200 names so if yours isn't there, they will be soon. This week all the B's were added to the 1864 Ireland Birth Index. The C's will start going up soon. This week a new feature was started at IGW, the Surname Data Bank. This is dedicated to those who have done research on one particular surname, hoping to find connections. They end up with lots of data not needed for their family tree but since it took time and energy, the data is saved. Why not share your research? Here is a place to get it online and help others. We started with the McKernan (plus other variant spellings of the surname) Births, Marriages and Deaths found in the Ireland BMD indexs from 1864-1910. If you have data you would like to contribute, please contact me off list. You can find our site at: http://www.irelandgenweb.com/ Feel free to share this email on other lists that you may belong to. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== Did you pay your 2008 Dues? Troy Irish Genealogy Society http://www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the **************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&?NCID=aolfod00030000000002)

This week the Surname Registry was updated with another 100 names. So far, over 300 names have been added in May. We still have a backlog of over 200 names so if yours isn't there, they will be soon. This week all the B's were added to the 1864 Ireland Birth Index. The C's will start going up soon. This week a new feature was started at IGW, the Surname Data Bank. This is dedicated to those who have done research on one particular surname, hoping to find connections. They end up with lots of data not needed for their family tree but since it took time and energy, the data is saved. Why not share your research? Here is a place to get it online and help others. We started with the McKernan (plus other variant spellings of the surname) Births, Marriages and Deaths found in the Ireland BMD indexs from 1864-1910. If you have data you would like to contribute, please contact me off list. You can find our site at: http://www.irelandgenweb.com/ Feel free to share this email on other lists that you may belong to. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

A. List members may be interested in how the work is done on the Rensselaer County Marriage Index Project and who does the work. The following items may be of interest and may trigger more volunteers to help on this major project. 1. First of all, TIGS uses their own laptop computer and scanner. The IBM laptop was purchased with TIGS dues money and the scanner was donated by Jeanne Keefe, the TIGS webmaster. Local TIGS members use this equipment to scan the Marriage Index Books in the basement of the County Clerk's Building on Third Street in Troy. 2. The combined index for Volume 6 and 7, with 4,000 marriages and 8,000 names is currently being worked on. Two sessions of scanning the Grooms names resulted in 231 pdf files which were sent to volunteers for transcribing. Transcribing and proof reading of these 231 files is 99% complete. On May 1, 2008 the first pages were sent to volunteers for transcribing. 3. The TIGS Project Coordinator sends the pdf files and the Excel sheet to individual transcribers. As each page is returned an additional page is then sent to the worker. All returned pages are then sent to a proof reader to double check the data entry. When all the Grooms files are finished they will be sorted in marriage number order and analyzed to identify missing marriage numbers or duplicate numbers. 4. The next step in the process is to scan the 4,000 Brides names and create pdf files to send to the volunteers. This work will be started in the next few days. 5. Work on data entry of the Grooms names has involved 21 volunteers from all over the country. Here is a state by state breakdown of the volunteers: New York State - 13 Albany -1 Clifton Park - 3 Poughkeepsie - 1 Saratoga Springs - 1 Troy - 3 Wynantskill - 2 Williamson - 1 Syracuse - 1 Massachusetts - 3 Pennsylvania - 2 Iowa - 1 Virginia -1 Tennessee - 1 6. As you may know, the following volumes of the Marriage Index with their 32,000 names are currently on-line on the Troy Irish Genealogy website www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ Vol. 1 5,000 marriages with 10,000 Names January 1908-April 1913 Vol. 2 5,000 marriages with 10,000 Names April 1913-July 1918 Vol. 3 2,000 marriages with 4,000 Names May 1918-April 1920 Vol. 4 & 5 4,000 marriages with 8,000 Names April 1920-January 1924 7. Photocopies of documents on file OR of the record in the marriage book for these 16,000 marriages, are available from the County Clerk's Office for a fee of $5.00. Separate request forms for EACH Volume with the necessary instructions can be printed from the TIGS website. B. Additional volunteers can always be used to work on the Marriage Index Project. The quicker the data entry process, the faster each index can be put on-line on the TIGS website. Volunteers can help as follows: 1. Become a volunteer transcriber. All you need on your computer is Adobe, which can be downloaded free and Excel. Data entry items are minimal; last name, first name, page number, marriage number and date of marriage. As all the work is handled through email, volunteers can be located anywhere in the world. 2. The following need for volunteers can only be done by capital area residents as the work has to be done at the County Clerk's Office in Troy. As previously noted, the index for Volume 8 does not show the marriage number and the date of the marriage. So, before we can scan these pages, a look-up of the page number in the Marriage Book itself must be made to obtain the marriage number and the date of the marriage for each name on the index. Photocopies of all the pages in the Vol. 8 index have already been made and now we need volunteers to post the marriage number and the marriage date to the photocopied index pages. We will also face this problem when we get to Volume 9 and Volume 10, the last two books of this record series. If anyone is interested in volunteering to help with EITHER of the above items, they can email me off list at seamus@nycap.rr.com . Regards, Bill McGrath TIGS Project Coordinator Clifton Park, NY

Seeking assitance in locating the birth or baptismal record of Mary France Davis Meehan born Troy New York August 8, 1855 and Elizabeth Whalen born in the same city in February of the same year. Gerald O'Meara gomeara@evertek.net

Good Morning Donna: St. Joseph's in Troy has the records of Holy Trinity. Bill McGrath Clifton Park, NY ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna K. Vaughn" <dkvaughn@nycap.rr.com> To: <ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 6:33 AM Subject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Holy Trinity Church, South Troy - KARWIEL,NAUMWICZ > SOS ! I'm on a mission with a very limited timetable, trying to surprise > a sweet 90 year old lady on her birthday, and I have less than 2 weeks to > work on this. > > I am looking for info on her parents, an Anthony Karwiel who immigrated > here (I believe late 1890's) from Vilno, Poland; he married a Sophia > Naumwicz (from Krakow, Poland), on 8/1/1910 at the Holy Trinity Church in > Troy. (We have the certificate # on our TIGS marriage index and I'm going > to the Renss. Co. Clerk's Office to get it.) They had nine children, > Stasia, Julia, John, Josephine (b.1918), Joseph, Frances, Frank, Adelaide, > and Louis. Maybe not in that exact order. > > If anyone has any resources where they could quickly help me to find > little bits and pieces, that I could put something together for this > lady's birthday, I would appreciate it. Are there records for Holy > Trinity, for instance? > > Thanks a bunch! > Donna > ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== > Did you pay your 2008 Dues? > Troy Irish Genealogy Society > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Tuesday April 15 ,2008 TroyRecord Article 100years agoWednesday April 15 ,, 1908 “Patrolman Smith arrests six men for loitering on the corner of Fourth & Adams streets. The paper says “ Snce the advent of spring, the defendants, have been obstructing the walk and forcing pedestrians to use the roadway and in some instances annoying the women. Officer Smith manages to get all six to jail where one faces a concealed weapon charge. The rest face a 10$ fine or 10 days in jail. Photo of the day Troy Record Tuesday April 15, 2008 1935 photo of the Klinsing Homestead in Lansingburgh. : Mrs Klinsing. Ferra children: Muriel, Margaret and Doris and Mary Elizabeth and Doris Klinsing Photo of the day Troy Record Wednesday April 15, 2008 1948photo of Carey Bros fruits and vegetables on Tyler St in South Troy. PS if you click on the below link it will take you to the Troy Record newspaper website. From there at the top click on Opinions then click on This Day in the Record and it will give you about a current weeks worth of This day in History. _http://www.troyrecord.com/WebApp/appmanager/JRC/BigDaily_ (http://www.troyrecord.com/WebApp/appmanager/JRC/BigDaily) ?_ **************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&?NCID=aolfod00030000000002)

SOS ! I'm on a mission with a very limited timetable, trying to surprise a sweet 90 year old lady on her birthday, and I have less than 2 weeks to work on this. I am looking for info on her parents, an Anthony Karwiel who immigrated here (I believe late 1890's) from Vilno, Poland; he married a Sophia Naumwicz (from Krakow, Poland), on 8/1/1910 at the Holy Trinity Church in Troy. (We have the certificate # on our TIGS marriage index and I'm going to the Renss. Co. Clerk's Office to get it.) They had nine children, Stasia, Julia, John, Josephine (b.1918), Joseph, Frances, Frank, Adelaide, and Louis. Maybe not in that exact order. If anyone has any resources where they could quickly help me to find little bits and pieces, that I could put something together for this lady's birthday, I would appreciate it. Are there records for Holy Trinity, for instance? Thanks a bunch! Donna

If you do not want to pay the fees for ancestry there are other ways of using it. Some libraries have a subscription, such as the Troy library, or see if there is a LDS center close to you. There's one in Loudonville and for a dollar fee you can access ancestry on their computer. Kris White **************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&?NCID=aolfod00030000000002)

Hi Donna, Again - ancestry.com comes to the rescue. Although this is a great service - there are so many who cannot afford ancestry's fees/dues. At the Archives - if the documents were microfilmed - you just had to pay for copies. True, copies of original documents have become costly, so it now becomes a catch 22 situation. Whether to pay dues to ancestry with no hope of knowing if your ancestors records were even in the Archives or not. With the LDS putting their records online and ancestry partnering with National Archives - maybe this truly does become a win win for us family researchers. BTW - to all - the British National Archives will furnish copies of documents for a relatively inexpensive charge - mostly 3.50 British pounds. That beats the cost of an airline trip over the pond. Keep in mind that many records about Irish nationals are in the Brit Archives. There is a search engine and you can just plug in a name. There are many early military and WWI records as well as other genealogical records to be searched. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ I found and received my wife's 4th great grandfather's military records - which showed that he was born c 1763 in Wick, Scotland. One of the units he served spent ten years in Ireland and three of his children were born in Ireland - we just don't know where. Rich in SC ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna K. Vaughn" <dkvaughn@nycap.rr.com> To: <ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 7:06 AM Subject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Ancestry.com to pair with the NationalArchives > http://www.examiner.com/a-1401746~Ancestry_com_partners_with_National_Archives.html > ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== > Did you pay your 2008 Dues? > Troy Irish Genealogy Society > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Saturday April 12, 2008 TroyRecord Article 100years agoSunday April 12 , 1908 “Rev Arthur H. Winn of the First Unitarian Church addresses the popular Enquirers Club, one of the newest big attraction since Troy has started enforcing the ban on live theater and moving pictures on Sundays.His topic is “the Social Ideal”. Winn says” The social order is not due to the church or any other one influence. Let us call in the aid of science, of experience and of all the forces, we can get together for the betterment of social conditions. Let us work together for the uplifting of man.” Photo of the day Troy Record Saturday April 12, 2008 1934 photo of the Brimmer Celebration, Helen Cipperly with flag. PS if you click on the below link it will take you to the Troy Record newspaper website. From there at the top click on Opinions then click on This Day in the Record and it will give you about a current weeks worth of This day in History. _http://www.troyrecord.com/WebApp/appmanager/JRC/BigDaily_ (http://www.troyrecord.com/WebApp/appmanager/JRC/BigDaily) ?_ **************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&?NCID=aolfod00030000000002)

your local library may have heritage quest online or NARA has a database online -- http://aad.archives.gov/aad/ you can get military indexes at ancestry.com til 31 May or civil war here- http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0 Lois Rich Nichols wrote: >Hi Donna, > >Again - ancestry.com comes to the rescue. Although this is a great >service - there are so many who cannot afford ancestry's fees/dues. At the >Archives - if the documents were microfilmed - you just had to pay for >copies. True, copies of original documents have become costly, so it now >becomes a catch 22 situation. Whether to pay dues to ancestry with no hope >of knowing if your ancestors records were even in the Archives or not. With >the LDS putting their records online and ancestry partnering with National >Archives - maybe this truly does become a win win for us family researchers. > >BTW - to all - the British National Archives will furnish copies of >documents for a relatively inexpensive charge - mostly 3.50 British pounds. >That beats the cost of an airline trip over the pond. Keep in mind that >many records about Irish nationals are in the Brit Archives. There is a >search engine and you can just plug in a name. There are many early >military and WWI records as well as other genealogical records to be >searched. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ I found and received my wife's 4th >great grandfather's military records - which showed that he was born c 1763 >in Wick, Scotland. One of the units he served spent ten years in Ireland >and three of his children were born in Ireland - we just don't know where. > >Rich in SC >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Donna K. Vaughn" <dkvaughn@nycap.rr.com> >To: <ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 7:06 AM >Subject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Ancestry.com to pair with the >NationalArchives > > > > >>http://www.examiner.com/a-1401746~Ancestry_com_partners_with_National_Archives.html >>===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== >>Did you pay your 2008 Dues? >>Troy Irish Genealogy Society >>http://www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >>without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> > > >===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== >Did you pay your 2008 Dues? >Troy Irish Genealogy Society >http://www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >

On May 12 a TIGS list member from Virginia sent me the following email on her experience using the Rensselaer County Marriage Index on the TIGS website and she has allowed me to post it on the TIGS mailing list. (Hello, I have been a lurker on the TIGS listserv for a few months, learning a lot of useful information. My ancestors stem from Ireland and came to the Troy/Albany area. I am from Troy but currently live in Virginia and was just up in Troy for the weekend. I read the email about the Rensselaer County Marriage Index project on Friday and immediately looked up some ancestors and found them! I had planned to go to the Archives that day to request a copy of that very certificate and would have had to pay the $22 and wait a month or so. Instead, I went to the County Clerk's Office with the information obtained from TIGS project and for $5 and in 5 minutes, I had instant gratification. So I wanted to express my appreciation for everyone's hard work by offering to help with data entry for the project. Please let me know what is involved and how I might be able to assist. Thank you, Diana Lupe) We have taken Diana up on her offer to help with data entry. She is now one of the 20 transcribers working on data entry of Volume 6 and 7 of the marriage index. Regards, Bill McGrath TIGS Project Coordinator Clifton Park, NY

The Troy Irish Genealogy Website www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ has a lengthy article on genealogy research in Troy, New York. To see the article on the website, click on RESOURCES and scroll down to the title heading. Many of the tips covered in the article can be applied to doing research in areas other than Troy. Of particular interest in the article is the section on Troy Deaths and Burials on microfilm at the Troy Library. These Death and Burial records are an important reference for Troy area researchers since many of the entries predate the 1880 New York State law requiring the reporting of deaths. Records start in 1833. Individuals who died outside of Troy are listed IF they were buried in Troy. Some years of these records (1833, 1835, 1839, 1841, 1842, 1845, 1863, 1864, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1885, 1889, 1890) are now available on line. Check out the Rensselaer County NY Genweb site, coordinated by Lin Van Buren, for these records as well as a fantastic amount of genealogy related information on Rensselaer County. Address is: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyrensse/troybury.htm Regards, Bill McGrath Clifton Park, NY