One of HVCC’s department chairs forwarded my e-mail to the director of HVCC’s physical plant who got back to him: "this project is actually being done by a private contractor (Omni Group) and a gentleman named Duncan Barrett. I believe there is an upcoming public meeting soon to talk about the project. I don’t have any info on the project since we are not involved in the construction.” Omni Group: http://www.omnidevelopment.com Duncan Barrett was Troy City Manager in 1977, Executive Director of the Troy Rehabilitation and Improvement Program (TRIP) from 1971 to 1977, etc. Chris Philippo

Hi, I'm planning to visit Troy Library to see what information I can gather on Nail Factory. Hopefully, some information will be found. Thank you for your posts and help. Kathy Sent from my iPad

Chris, I'm going to investigate too. Sent from my iPad > On Aug 25, 2014, at 10:23 PM, Christopher Philippo via <ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > The Nail Factory Cemetery / > by Broderick, Frances D. > [Lansingburgh, N.Y. : F.D. Broderick, 1977] > Description: > 10 leaves, [1] leaf of plates : 1 fold. map ; 31 cm. > Troy Public Library Main Library Troy Room TR 929.5 B Non-Circulating > http://ipac.uhls.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=14090A7309DT7.38735&profile=all&source=~!clone&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!255355~!0&ri=1&aspect=basic2&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=nail+factory&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=basic2&menu=search&ri=1 > > I didn’t see it on the shelf, and the library hasn’t turned it up yet. > > Did TIGS happen to make a photocopy or scan of it in composing http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nytigs/NailFactoryCemetery/NailFactoryCemeteryIntro.htm ? If not, I expect it should still be possible to turn up a copy - from Warren Broderick, if need be. Maybe the HVCC library should be given a copy too! > > I wrote a number of people at HVCC about the cemetery: Mortuary Science Department Chair Elaine Reinhard; Mortuary Science Student Association contact person Lori Q. Purcell; Environmental Science Department Chair Peter A. Schaefer; History, Philosophy and Social Sciences Department Chair Peter R. Sawyer; Criminal Justice, Forensic Science and Public Administration Department Chair Ann B. Geisendorfer; President Andrew J. Matonak; Assistant Secretary to the HVCC Board of Trustees Suzanne Kalkbrenner; the Hudsonian student newspaper. Only one reply so far. No new information yet. Letters, phone calls, or meetings might be more fruitful. E-mails are easily overlooked. > > Chris > ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== > Time for Society Members to pay up their **2014 Dues**. See the Website for details: > Troy Irish Genealogy Society > www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ > Click ON - "JOIN TIGS NOW!" to get form. > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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

The Nail Factory Cemetery / by Broderick, Frances D. [Lansingburgh, N.Y. : F.D. Broderick, 1977] Description: 10 leaves, [1] leaf of plates : 1 fold. map ; 31 cm. Troy Public Library Main Library Troy Room TR 929.5 B Non-Circulating http://ipac.uhls.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=14090A7309DT7.38735&profile=all&source=~!clone&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!255355~!0&ri=1&aspect=basic2&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=nail+factory&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=basic2&menu=search&ri=1 I didn’t see it on the shelf, and the library hasn’t turned it up yet. Did TIGS happen to make a photocopy or scan of it in composing http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nytigs/NailFactoryCemetery/NailFactoryCemeteryIntro.htm ? If not, I expect it should still be possible to turn up a copy - from Warren Broderick, if need be. Maybe the HVCC library should be given a copy too! I wrote a number of people at HVCC about the cemetery: Mortuary Science Department Chair Elaine Reinhard; Mortuary Science Student Association contact person Lori Q. Purcell; Environmental Science Department Chair Peter A. Schaefer; History, Philosophy and Social Sciences Department Chair Peter R. Sawyer; Criminal Justice, Forensic Science and Public Administration Department Chair Ann B. Geisendorfer; President Andrew J. Matonak; Assistant Secretary to the HVCC Board of Trustees Suzanne Kalkbrenner; the Hudsonian student newspaper. Only one reply so far. No new information yet. Letters, phone calls, or meetings might be more fruitful. E-mails are easily overlooked. Chris

On Aug 23, 2014, at 3:35 AM, Christine Connell <christine.connell@gmail.com> wrote: > Does anyone know the location of the cross or road pictured on this TIGS page? http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nytigs/NailFactoryCemetery/NailFactoryCemeteryIntro.htm The cross is on the north side of a dirt road starting from Vandenburgh Avenue south of Lark Street and traveling west. Even though it’s flat on the ground, it’s impossible to miss since it’s over seven feet in size. On the 1858 and 1861 maps, the cemetery was south of a road traveling west from Vandenburgh Avenue. If the road that exists now is the same as the old one on the map, the cross would seem to be outside of the cemetery. I suspected the cross was associated with the monastery, which is what I think Kathy said as well. On the 1881 map the road dead ends at the east side of the cemetery. It’s hard to know how accurate the maps were. At one time there seems to have been a map of the cemetery itself by “B. Turner.” 1858 map http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-4f37-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 1861 map http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/map_item.pl?data=/service/gmd/gmd380/g3803/g3803r/la000546.jp2 1881 map http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-68ab-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 articles about the cemetery https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Mt-S77wZKfZThYNGdoX0djNzg/edit?usp=sharing Aside from the HVCC dorms, there’s also a sign about the monastery property being the “Future Home of the Energy Efficiency & Sustainability Programs Training Lab.” It would be nice to see a map of the footprints for those and their parking lots, etc. Chris

So after the discussion at Thursday night's TIGS meeting, I went looking to read up on the Nail Factory cemetery. I'm always finding things I missed before on the TIGS website! Does anyone know the location of the cross or road pictured on this TIGS page? http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nytigs/NailFactoryCemetery/NailFactoryCemeteryIntro.htm More history http://www.hoxsie.org/2013/05/the-nail-factory-cemetery.html And map http://tinyurl.com/kkrhdkl Two maps, one noted by Chris P from NYPL at http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-68ab-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 and this one http://tinyurl.com/kwz9sm9 show the location of a cemetery to north of the former monastery. Is this the area planned for the HVCC dormitory construction? Time for a walk in the woods, anyone?

The original Mount Ida Cemetery at the foot of Cypress Street had several headstones identifying people as having been born in Ireland “Mary Fitzsimons wife of Patrick Fitzsimons a native of the County of Down in Ireland died July 9 1828 aged 23 years and 6 months” http://members.tripod.com/~DERBYSHIRE_2/oldtroycem.html In a microfilmed scrapbook in the Troy Public Library, page 26 of a handwritten transcription of the disappeared headstones of the original Mount Ida Cemetery gives the above as: "I. H. S. “Sacred to the memory of Mary Fitzsimmons, wife of Patrick Fitzsimmons, a native of the County of Down, in Ireland, who departed this life July 9, 1828 aged 23 years & 6 mos.” [The Catholic Burying Ground in Lansingburgh (by the Village Burying Ground) wasn’t created until 1829, and the Mount Ida Catholic Cemetery wasn’t created until 1835. - CKP] There’s a little bit more detail throughout. The other entries for Irish: * “Nathaniel Wilson died July 21 1853 born in the County of Tyrone Ireland May 10 1810 aged 43 years 2 months and 11 days “Eliza Ann Wilson daughter of Nathaniel and Jane B Wilson born Nov 26 1833 died Aug 11 1834 aged 1 year 8 months and 23 days” http://members.tripod.com/~DERBYSHIRE_2/oldtroycem.html Page 2: “Erected to the memory of Nathaniel Wilson, by his beloved wife Jane B. Wilson, who departed this life, July 21, 1853 Born in the county Tyrone, Ireland, May 10, 1810, aged 43 years, 2 months and 11 days. Also Eliza Ann Wilson, daughter of Nathaniel and Jane B. Wilson, Born Nov. 26, 1833, died Augt. 11, 1831 aged 1 yr 8 mo. 22 days Looks at me as you pass by As you are now so once was I As I am now so you must be Prepare for death and follow me.” [The “831” in 1831 is circled and “4?” written by it. - CKP] * “David Lemmon, Killenechey County of Down Ireland died April 11 1828 aged 76 years Also his son John died March 13 1832 aged 10 years http://www.onentofl.com/tcsnyrenTROYold.html “David Lemmon, Killenchey, County of Down, Ireland, died April 11, 1828, aged 76 years Also his son John died March 12, 1832 aged 10 years.” [Killinchy, County of Down, Ireland] * “Mary wife of Joseph Resard formerly of Belfast Ireland who died April 27 1821 aged 31 years” http://members.tripod.com/~DERBYSHIRE_2/oldtroycem.html Page 6: “In memory of Mary, wife of Joseph Resard, formerly of Belfast, Ireland, who died April 27th 1821 aged 31 years.” * “Jane wife of Edward Donnelly died Jan 21 1832 in the 60th year of her age a native of the County Tyrone Ireland” http://members.tripod.com/~DERBYSHIRE_2/oldtroycem.html Page 6 “Sacred to the memory of Jane, wife of Edward Donnelly, who died Jan. 21, 1832, in the 60 year of her age. A native of the county Tyrone, Ireland” (8 line poem - legible) Another stone on Donnelly lot 1/2 broken - added to another strewn over flat, cannot be deciphered

Thanks Chris.... See you tonight. Sent from my iPad > On Aug 21, 2014, at 9:20 AM, Christine Connell via <ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > On street parking (all free after 5pm) shouldn't be a problem on a Thursday > in August, but there is also a lot (paid during the day but free at night) > just around the corner from the Ilium.- on 1st St between River St and > State St. > ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== > Time for Society Members to pay up their **2014 Dues**. See the Website for details: > Troy Irish Genealogy Society > www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ > Click ON - "JOIN TIGS NOW!" to get form. > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 street parking (all free after 5pm) shouldn't be a problem on a Thursday in August, but there is also a lot (paid during the day but free at night) just around the corner from the Ilium.- on 1st St between River St and State St.

Chris, Thank you for your continued hard work in the investigations. Hope to see you soon and we can chat then..... Kathy Sent from my iPad > On Aug 20, 2014, at 10:52 AM, Christopher Philippo via <ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > I’d made a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request for records pertaining to the Rensselaer County Farm (Almshouse) Cemetery back on May 15, 2014. The Rensselaer County Attorney only acknowledged the request on June 23, 2014 after I’d appealed the constructive denial of the request (i.e. the failure to even acknowledge the request within the window the law provides). I received the below recently: > >> From Pechenik, Stephen to Christopher Philippo on Aug. 19, 2014: >> Dear Mr. Philippo: >> >> Due to vacation schedules, the Rensselaer County Clerk has not yet searched his records. My office will contact you once we have a page count. >> >> Very truly yours, >> >> STEPHEN A. PECHENIK >> Rensselaer County Attorney >> >> Stephen A. Pechenik >> Ned Pattison County Government Center >> 1600 Seventh Avenue >> Troy, New York 12180 >> Voice: (518) 270-2950 >> Fax: (518) 270-2954 >> E-Mail: spechenik@rensco.com > > Evidently the RensCo Clerk has had a vacation that has run from June 23, 2014 through August 19, 2014? Seems pretty generous! Anyhow, hopefully we’re getting closer to learning what records they might have. Much of what little is known at the moment is at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2538887 It might be possible to find some additional interments recorded in the City of Troy’s interment books that are microfilmed, though only later years in those specify the cemeteries, and those records are also incomplete. > > I haven’t tried filing a FOIL request with the city or county for records pertaining to the Nail Factory Cemetery, but they ought to have some since it was a city cemetery and the land subsequently seems to have become property of Rensselaer County. I’ve also wanted to make a FOIL request with the city for records pertaining to the original Mount Ida Cemetery adjacent to Prospect Park, particularly records pertaining to its bulldozing in 1990 despite the lack of evidence that bodies and headstones (which had been ordered buried in 1919) were ever removed. > > Chris Philippo > ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== > Time for Society Members to pay up their **2014 Dues**. See the Website for details: > Troy Irish Genealogy Society > www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ > Click ON - "JOIN TIGS NOW!" to get form. > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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

Jeanne, Interesting....I'll talk to you on phine. Don't trust this site..... Kathy Sent from my iPad > On Aug 20, 2014, at 10:52 AM, Christopher Philippo via <ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > I’d made a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request for records pertaining to the Rensselaer County Farm (Almshouse) Cemetery back on May 15, 2014. The Rensselaer County Attorney only acknowledged the request on June 23, 2014 after I’d appealed the constructive denial of the request (i.e. the failure to even acknowledge the request within the window the law provides). I received the below recently: > >> From Pechenik, Stephen to Christopher Philippo on Aug. 19, 2014: >> Dear Mr. Philippo: >> >> Due to vacation schedules, the Rensselaer County Clerk has not yet searched his records. My office will contact you once we have a page count. >> >> Very truly yours, >> >> STEPHEN A. PECHENIK >> Rensselaer County Attorney >> >> Stephen A. Pechenik >> Ned Pattison County Government Center >> 1600 Seventh Avenue >> Troy, New York 12180 >> Voice: (518) 270-2950 >> Fax: (518) 270-2954 >> E-Mail: spechenik@rensco.com > > Evidently the RensCo Clerk has had a vacation that has run from June 23, 2014 through August 19, 2014? Seems pretty generous! Anyhow, hopefully we’re getting closer to learning what records they might have. Much of what little is known at the moment is at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2538887 It might be possible to find some additional interments recorded in the City of Troy’s interment books that are microfilmed, though only later years in those specify the cemeteries, and those records are also incomplete. > > I haven’t tried filing a FOIL request with the city or county for records pertaining to the Nail Factory Cemetery, but they ought to have some since it was a city cemetery and the land subsequently seems to have become property of Rensselaer County. I’ve also wanted to make a FOIL request with the city for records pertaining to the original Mount Ida Cemetery adjacent to Prospect Park, particularly records pertaining to its bulldozing in 1990 despite the lack of evidence that bodies and headstones (which had been ordered buried in 1919) were ever removed. > > Chris Philippo > ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== > Time for Society Members to pay up their **2014 Dues**. See the Website for details: > Troy Irish Genealogy Society > www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ > Click ON - "JOIN TIGS NOW!" to get form. > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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

I’d made a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request for records pertaining to the Rensselaer County Farm (Almshouse) Cemetery back on May 15, 2014. The Rensselaer County Attorney only acknowledged the request on June 23, 2014 after I’d appealed the constructive denial of the request (i.e. the failure to even acknowledge the request within the window the law provides). I received the below recently: > From Pechenik, Stephen to Christopher Philippo on Aug. 19, 2014: > Dear Mr. Philippo: > > Due to vacation schedules, the Rensselaer County Clerk has not yet searched his records. My office will contact you once we have a page count. > > Very truly yours, > > STEPHEN A. PECHENIK > Rensselaer County Attorney > > Stephen A. Pechenik > Ned Pattison County Government Center > 1600 Seventh Avenue > Troy, New York 12180 > Voice: (518) 270-2950 > Fax: (518) 270-2954 > E-Mail: spechenik@rensco.com Evidently the RensCo Clerk has had a vacation that has run from June 23, 2014 through August 19, 2014? Seems pretty generous! Anyhow, hopefully we’re getting closer to learning what records they might have. Much of what little is known at the moment is at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2538887 It might be possible to find some additional interments recorded in the City of Troy’s interment books that are microfilmed, though only later years in those specify the cemeteries, and those records are also incomplete. I haven’t tried filing a FOIL request with the city or county for records pertaining to the Nail Factory Cemetery, but they ought to have some since it was a city cemetery and the land subsequently seems to have become property of Rensselaer County. I’ve also wanted to make a FOIL request with the city for records pertaining to the original Mount Ida Cemetery adjacent to Prospect Park, particularly records pertaining to its bulldozing in 1990 despite the lack of evidence that bodies and headstones (which had been ordered buried in 1919) were ever removed. Chris Philippo

The book Troy’s One Hundred Years http://books.google.com/books?id=O5ZHAAAAYAAJ has lists of Presidents of the Village of Troy (322-333) and Mayors of the City of Troy (326), but not Supervisors of the Town of Troy. The book History of the Seventeen Towns of Rensselaer County http://books.google.com/books?id=0xEQAwAAQBAJ indicates the first Supervisor of the Town of Troy, elected 1791, was Cornelius Lansing (17) who later served as the first Supervisor of the Town of Lansingburgh when that town was created in 1807 (38). Is there a list of later Supervisors of the Town of Troy? I was also looking for the graves of the Presidents of the Village of Troy. John McCoun 1798-1799; 1801-1802 Benjamin Gorton 1799-1800 - Mt Ida, Pawling Ave Ephraim Morgan 1800-1801 - original Mt. Ida, Cypress St Albert Pawling 1802-1803; 1804-1805; 1815-1816 - Mt. Ida, Pawling Ave Edward Tylee 1803-1804; 1804-1805; 1805-1808; 1810-1811- Chase Cemetery, Lysander, NY Abraham Ten Eyck 1808-1810; 1811-1813 Timothy Hutton 1813-1814 - Lamington Presbysterian Church Cemetery, NJ Derick Lane 1814-1815 - Oakwood Cemetery http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=vcsr&GSvcid=442785 I’m not sure where John McCoun was buried or Abraham Ten Eyck. John McCoun married Elizabeth Townsend, so they could be in a McCoun or Townsend lot somewhere, transferred from wherever they were originally buried. An Abraham [Jacob] Ten Eyck who married an Anna Lansing and who died in 1824 was buried in the State Street Cemetery in Albany and transferred to Albany Rural Cemetery, Sec 60 Lot 11. He was more associated with Albany, but perhaps he was in Troy for a short time - something which could account for a remark on the People of Colonial Albany website “After 1810, his name no longer appeared on Albany rolls.” http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/t/abte4808.html Chris Philippo

One of the headstones in Cohoes' cemetery in Crescent, moved from the Cohoes City Cemetery on Columbia Street, Cohoes in 1896 or thereabouts, is that of Carlos B. Grout. At the top of the stone is an unusual symbol: a six-pointed star (hexagram), two points up, within a triangle. http://image2.findagrave.com/photos/2014/227/130659793_1408227185.jpg Findagraveforums.com user FairyLake thought it resembled the symbol of the Sons of Temperance. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KPd-faPYyr4/U_EihyMnflI/AAAAAAAABLw/Bf38SapUnxQ/s1600/sons%2Bof%2Btemperance%2Bsymbol.jpg The Order of the Sons of Temperance. Oshawa: C. T. White, 1851. http://archive.org/stream/cihm_93135#page/n3/mode/1up As it turns out there was indeed a chapter of the Sons of Temperance in Cohoes. The organization as a whole was still young when Carlos Grout died in 1848: "The organization called Sons of Temperance was brought into existence in the City of New York September 19, 1842, and consisted of sixteen members.” History of the County of Albany, N.Y., from 1609 to 1886. NY: W. W. Munsell & Co., 1886. 344. There were also chapters in Lansingburgh, Schaghticoke, Troy, Albia, Crescent, Albany, Watervliet, North Greenbush, Buskirk’s Bridge, Johnsonville, Valley Falls, Waterford, Schuylerville, Saratoga Springs, Corinth, Ballston, Mechanicville, Conklinville, Creek Centre, Galway, Jonesville, etc. Carlos B. Grout may have been an early enthusiastic member, or perhaps the SoT in Cohoes had a role as a burial society in addition to being a fraternal order concerned about alcohol. There was a Carlos B. Grout, son of Benjamin Grout and Orra Cummings, but I don’t know if it was the same person or not. The date of birth matches up about right, but Cohoes’ Carlos B. Grout died March 31, 1848 while the son of Benjamin and Orra reportedly got married in April 1848. Possibly the information about a marriage is wrong, or he was engaged but died, or perhaps they are in fact two different Carlos B. Grouts both born around the same year (though related somehow, one would guess). It's hard to know since Abner Morse didn't source the information. "[Grout,] Carlos Benj. [born] Oct. 14, 1823, m. April, ’48, Elizabeth, dg. of James Johnson, Chelsea, Vt” Morse, Abner. A Genealogical Register of the Descendants of Several Ancient Puritans, By the Names of Grout, Goulding, and Brigham. Boston, MA: H. W. Dutton & Son, 1859. 22. If the Cohoes Sons of Temperance are remembered at all today, it is for an event decades after Carlos B. Grout's death: "[Mark Twain] was at the Troy House, writing in the early hours of Saturday, 8 January. He had lectured in Cohoes, New York, about four miles north of Troy, on Friday evening. ‘Our Fellow Savages of the Sandwich Islands,' like other lectured sponsored by the Sons of Temperance and the Grand Army of the Republic, was poorly attended. It was a critical success, however. The Cohoes Cataract called it 'altogether a novel production, so different, in fact, from what people usually hear from the platform, that the audience was somewhat disappointed; but quite agreeably so, however, for all complained that the lecture was too short, notwithstanding the speaker occupied a full hour in the delivery of his queer, quaint and quizzical remarks’ ("Mark Twain's Lecture," 15 Jan 70, no page; "City Notes," Troy Times, 10 Jan 70, 3)." Fischer, Victor and Michael B. Frank, eds. Mark Twain's Letters. Vol. 4. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995. 8. With only about twenty graves visibly marked in Cohoes City Cemetery in Crescent out of over 949 graves known to be there, one wonders what else might remain to be learned if more headstones are found. Hopefully the city will do further work there this year (I’m told, secondhand, that they won’t). Chris Philippo

Can anyone suggest a professional genealogist that I can hire to help me get through my family brickwall? Thanks for any suggestions.  -Pam Pampchefpam@yahoo.com Researching: Clancy, Hogan, Sheehan, Powers, Rinn Sent from Samsung tablet -------- Original message -------- From: Sheila Ploof via <ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> Date: 08/17/2014 7:08 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Christine Connell <christine.connell@gmail.com>, ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] “Life in West Troy in the year 1881” My family arrived in 1882. Sure wish someone who takes notes (or a handout) would share them!! > On Aug 17, 2014, at 10:10 AM, Christine Connell via <ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Watervliet Historical Society August Meeting - August 18, 2014 7:00PM at > the Watervliet Senior Citizens Center (1501 Broadway) > > President Tom Ragosta will give a presentation on “Life in West Troy in the > year 1881” Erie canal activity going through West Troy was at its greatest > volume resulting in great prosperity for the village. > ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== > Time for Society Members to pay up their **2014 Dues**. See the Website for details: > Troy Irish Genealogy Society > www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ > Click ON - "JOIN TIGS NOW!" to get form. > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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=== Time for Society Members to pay up their **2014 Dues**. See the Website for details: Troy Irish Genealogy Society www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ Click ON - "JOIN TIGS NOW!" to get form. ------------------------------- 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

My family arrived in 1882. Sure wish someone who takes notes (or a handout) would share them!! > On Aug 17, 2014, at 10:10 AM, Christine Connell via <ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Watervliet Historical Society August Meeting - August 18, 2014 7:00PM at > the Watervliet Senior Citizens Center (1501 Broadway) > > President Tom Ragosta will give a presentation on “Life in West Troy in the > year 1881” Erie canal activity going through West Troy was at its greatest > volume resulting in great prosperity for the village. > ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== > Time for Society Members to pay up their **2014 Dues**. See the Website for details: > Troy Irish Genealogy Society > www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ > Click ON - "JOIN TIGS NOW!" to get form. > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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

Mr Kennedy has no doubt already seen this thesis? http://free-downloads.atholbooks.org/pamphlets/Connolly_in_America.pdf > On Aug 17, 2014, at 4:30 PM, Gerri Sherry via <ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > John Kennedy of Dublin asks if we know of any books or article about James Connolly and his life in Troy.

As far as books/articles specific to his life in Troy, I suggest he contact the Irish American Heritage Museum in Albany about holdings in their library http://irish-us.org/paul-odwyer-library/ There was an exhibit there last year about Connolly http://irish-us.org/2013/11/18/labor-dignity-james-connolly-in-america/ Here's contact info: http://irish-us.org/collections/ > On Aug 17, 2014, at 4:30 PM, Gerri Sherry via <ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > John Kennedy of Dublin asks if we know of any books or article about James Connolly and his life in Troy. >

John Kennedy of Dublin asks if we know of any books or article about James Connolly and his life in Troy.

Hi, Amy - where might I get a copy of the map of South Troy? Thanks! Dennis Fitz -----Original Message----- From: ny-troy-irish-gensoc-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ny-troy-irish-gensoc-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Amy La Pietra via Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 11:25 AM To: 'Christopher Philippo'; ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] articles about Troy cemeteries; Towns of Lincoln & North Lansingburgh, Rensselaer County Chris, Thanks so much for all the good info. I love the map of South Troy. My Sweeney/Brady family lived there and I have been trying to figure out which houses up Stow Ave were in North Greenbush in 1860. This map shows the line. Love it. If you look on google earth and squint at the woods where Woodside was you can still see the garden circles and paths. Cool ! Amy La Pietra ------------------------------- 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