Congratulations to all of the volunteers at TIGS. As a member for about 2 years now, I have benefited from so much help and an enormous amount of information. Without TIGS, I doubt that I could have located all this precious information about my Grandfather's family. Thank you everyone and, again, CONGRATULATIONS!!! Jan Griffiths Toronto, Canada. -----Original Message----- From: ny-troy-irish-gensoc-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ny-troy-irish-gensoc-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Bill & Cathy McGrath Sent: September 19, 2008 9:22 AM To: NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-L@rootsweb.com; nyrensse@rootsweb.com Subject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] TIGS 5th Anniversary At the monthly meeting of the Troy Irish Genealogy Society last night, it was mentioned that the meeting date happened to be the fifth anniversary of the founding of the TIGS group. It was appropriate that the meeting was at the Irish Mist in Troy which is where the TIGS group was founded five years ago. A lot of work has been done in those five years as can be seen from all of the information on the TIGS website. It is worth mentioning that the TIGS website www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nytigs/ now has 11 data series with 61,833 name searchable records as follows: 1. Alderman/Assistants in Troy, NY Wards During the Period 1816 to 1891 - 1,400 names. 2. Bank Officers in Troy, NY Banks During The Period 1801 to 1891 - 299 names. 3. History of the Police Department of Troy, NY from 1786 to 1902 - 688 names. 4. Death Records from a Newspaper Collection in files of Burden Iron Company, Troy, NY - 6,031 names. 5. Deceased Troy, NY Area Individuals Identified in the 1902 & 1903 Troy City Directory - 1,400 names. 6. Marriage Records from a Newspaper Collection in files of Burden Iron Company, Troy, NY - 1,448 names. 7. Payroll Records from the Burden Iron Company, Troy, NY - 8,236 names. 8. Prominent citizens of Troy & Rensselaer County, NY (Prior to 1925) - 1,800 names. 9. Rensselaer County Marriage Index, Volumes 1 to 7 - 40,014 names. 10. Representative Young Irish-Americans of Troy, NY 1889 - 400 names. 11. Troy Elks Club List of Exalted Leaders - 117 names. It should be noted that, with the single exception of the Representative Young Irish-Americans of Troy, NY, all of the data series above cover the general population of Irish AND non-Irish names. TIGS and it's many volunteer transcribers are working on even more records to add additional names to the website. Work is half completed on Volume 8 of the Rensselaer County Marriage Index which will then leave only Volumes 9 and 10 to complete this wonderful record series. The next major project being undertaken by TIGS is to create a data base of all family names listed on memorials (stained glass windows, plaques, statues, ,etc.) in local area churches. This project is even more important considering that a number of local churches are scheduled to close in the next few years and the record of these memorials identifying family names will be lost. 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