Alysia took some photos of Troy’s burial books at the City Engineer’s office https://onedrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=cb7f2ce3babaf4a8&page=browse&resid=CB7F2CE3BABAF4A8!783&parId=CB7F2CE3BABAF4A8!115&authkey=!ApUKT_P_kRAskZU&Bpub=SDX.SkyDrive&Bsrc=Share&sc=Photos&type=5 She didn’t photograph everything, but is going to try to go back to take some more. Having those scanned rather than merely photographed, and printing duplicate copies might also be a good idea so the originals don’t have to be handled, and perhaps rather than going to the expense of rebinding the original books (I doubt the city ever would) they could use rare book storage boxes like these to hold them together: http://www.universityproducts.com/cart.php?m=product_list&c=870&primary=1&parentId=&navTree[]=870 There might be somewhere local that sells those. Transcribing from the originals would be much easier than working from the microfilms that are at the Troy Library and NYS Library, and I’m not sure that all the books were microfilmed. I’m pretty sure the loose documents like deeds for cemetery lots, receipts for funerals, property survey maps of cemetery lots, newspaper clippings, etc. were not microfilmed. In some of these records, like the “Alphabet of the Old and New Grounds”: Old Grounds=Old Mount Ida Cemetery at Cypress Street (begun 1814, bulldozed 1990) New Grounds=Mount Ida Cemetery on Pawling Avenue (opened 1832) Old and new grounds would have been the designations before the purchase of New Mount Ida Cemetery in 1854, and maybe before the formal naming of Mount Ida Cemetery on Pawling Avenue in 1850. Many records are for people who may have never had headstones (though they might have had wooden headboards at one time). Some of the records correspond to the DAR’s transcriptions of visible, readable headstones around 1915: Henry H. Betts at “New Grounds”: "Henry H. Betts, d. July 20, 1852, 45 yr.” Mount Ida Cemetery on Pawling Avenue http://www.onentofl.com/tcsnyrenTROYmida.html “D.D.T. Brockway” at “Old Ground”: "D. D. T. Brockway, son of Reed & Betsy Brockway, d. March 11, 1821; 1 yr.” Old Mount Ida Cemetery at Cypress Street http://www.onentofl.com/tcsnyrenTROYold.html

Chris, the link was working but is not working now. Is there another way to see the photos? I was able to view them yesterday. kris6851@aol.com -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Philippo via <ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> To: TIGS <ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, Oct 29, 2014 10:58 am Subject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] photos of Troy burial books Alysia took some photos of Troy’s burial books at the City Engineer’s office https://onedrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=cb7f2ce3babaf4a8&page=browse&resid=CB7F2CE3BABAF4A8!783&parId=CB7F2CE3BABAF4A8!115&authkey=!ApUKT_P_kRAskZU&Bpub=SDX.SkyDrive&Bsrc=Share&sc=Photos&type=5 She didn’t photograph everything, but is going to try to go back to take some more. Having those scanned rather than merely photographed, and printing duplicate copies might also be a good idea so the originals don’t have to be handled, and perhaps rather than going to the expense of rebinding the original books (I doubt the city ever would) they could use rare book storage boxes like these to hold them together: http://www.universityproducts.com/cart.php?m=product_list&c=870&primary=1&parentId=&navTree[]=870 There might be somewhere local that sells those. Transcribing from the originals would be much easier than working from the microfilms that are at the Troy Library and NYS Library, and I’m not sure that all the books were microfilmed. I’m pretty sure the loose documents like deeds for cemetery lots, receipts for funerals, property survey maps of cemetery lots, newspaper clippings, etc. were not microfilmed. In some of these records, like the “Alphabet of the Old and New Grounds”: Old Grounds=Old Mount Ida Cemetery at Cypress Street (begun 1814, bulldozed 1990) New Grounds=Mount Ida Cemetery on Pawling Avenue (opened 1832) Old and new grounds would have been the designations before the purchase of New Mount Ida Cemetery in 1854, and maybe before the formal naming of Mount Ida Cemetery on Pawling Avenue in 1850. Many records are for people who may have never had headstones (though they might have had wooden headboards at one time). Some of the records correspond to the DAR’s transcriptions of visible, readable headstones around 1915: Henry H. Betts at “New Grounds”: "Henry H. Betts, d. July 20, 1852, 45 yr.” Mount Ida Cemetery on Pawling Avenue http://www.onentofl.com/tcsnyrenTROYmida.html “D.D.T. Brockway” at “Old Ground”: "D. D. T. Brockway, son of Reed & Betsy Brockway, d. March 11, 1821; 1 yr.” Old Mount Ida Cemetery at Cypress Street http://www.onentofl.com/tcsnyrenTROYold.html ===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