Hi everyone.I want to share this site that I have been having fun looking at: www.davidrumsey.com. It is filled with wonderful old maps of Albany, Troy and hundreds of other places. Some of the old maps have the names of the landowners on them as well as the location of the cemeteries in Troy. Does anyone know what school was on Mill Street half way up on the left ? The old stairs are still there and I noticed on one of the maps circa 1891 there is a school there. My grandfather lived on Burden Ave in Troy and I am thinking he might have gone to this school. Would it have been typical for the children of the Irish in Troy to go only to the Catholic schools ? I am still trying to find out where my great grandparents are buried. It has been fun so far. Amy

Here is a link to a new site about Grosse Ile in Quebec - the quarantine station for many Irish immigrants. Jack McEneny mentioned this briefly during his talk. There is a database that you can search, though it's doesn't have a great search engine, no advanced search options etc. But it's interesting. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/grosse-ile/ Rebecca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amy La Pietra" <tvamy50@comcast.net> To: <ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 2:07 PM Subject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] old maps > Hi everyone.I want to share this site that I have been having fun looking > at: www.davidrumsey.com. It is filled with wonderful old maps of Albany, > Troy and hundreds of other places. Some of the old maps have the names of > the landowners on them as well as the location of the cemeteries in Troy. > Does anyone know what school was on Mill Street half way up on the left ? > The old stairs are still there and I noticed on one of the maps circa 1891 > there is a school there. My grandfather lived on Burden Ave in Troy and I > am > thinking he might have gone to this school. Would it have been typical for > the children of the Irish in Troy to go only to the Catholic schools ? I > am > still trying to find out where my great grandparents are buried. It has > been > fun so far. Amy > ===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

There is a paperback book put out by Parks Canada called A Register of Deceased Persons at Sea and on Grosse Ile in 1847 by Andre Charbonneau and Doris Drolet-Dube which lists the people who died there or aboard ship on the Atlantic or the St. Lawrence. It gives names and ages of the passengers who died as well as information about the ships. There also are a number of books by Marianna O'Gallagher on the tragedy that occurred there in the summer of 1847. Mary Lee Dunn -----Original Message----- From: Rebecca Rector <rrector1@nycap.rr.com> To: ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com Sent: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:28 am Subject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Grosse Ile in Quebec - Irish immigrants Here is a link to a new site about Grosse Ile in Quebec - the quarantine station for many Irish immigrants. Jack McEneny mentioned this briefly during his talk. There is a database that you can search, though it's doesn't have a great search engine, no advanced search options etc. But it's interesting. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/grosse-ile/ Rebecca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amy La Pietra" <tvamy50@comcast.net> To: <ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 2:07 PM Subject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] old maps > Hi everyone.I want to share this site that I have been having fun looking > at: www.davidrumsey.com. It is filled with wonderful old maps of Albany, > Troy and hundreds of other places. Some of the old maps have the names of > the landowners on them as well as the location of the cemeteries in Troy. > Does anyone know what school was on Mill Street half way up on the left ? > The old stairs are still there and I noticed on one of the maps circa 1891 > there is a school there. My grandfather lived on Burden Ave in Troy and I > am > thinking he might have gone to this school. Would it have been typical for > the children of the Irish in Troy to go only to the Catholic schools ? I > am > still trying to find out where my great grandparents are buried. It has > been > fun so far. Amy > ===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

There are two new searchable databases on Ancestry. They are from St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church in Brookly 1837 - 1900. You will find them under new additions. I found one family originally from Albany. Good luck. Lynne I choose Polesoft Lockspam to fight spam, and you? http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html