http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyrensse/troybury.htm I tried looking at the microfilms of the Troy Burial Records at the Troy Library, but the microfilm readers couldn’t fit a single page on the screen at one time and the Reference Desk didn’t think they had any different size lenses. I tried at the State Library today, and they did have some different size lenses that could fit the page but I’m not sure if scans of pages will be of sufficient resolution to read when enlarged later on a computer. I’m going to give it a try next time I go, but I think it would be much easier overall to digitally scan or photograph the pages in the original books. Digital copies would also facilitate transcription by more people and at more times, rather than just at libraries during library hours. Perhaps TIGS could pursue that? The records starting in March 1, 1833 have “Corporation Burial” over a group of columns and then “Individual Ground” over a group of columns. The former would be the municipal cemeteries, the latter seems to refer to family cemeteries. Under those latter columns: G. Tibbits [George Tibbits (1763-1849)?] T. McCoun [Townsend McCoun (1769-1834)?] S. McCoun [Samuel McCoun (1772-1829)?] P. Heartt [Philip Heartt (1768-1855)?] Lansing Vanderheyden Most of the time all of those columns are blank or filled with double quotations marks - not used as ditto marks but to indicate the field was intentionally skipped. I’m not sure where all of those individual grounds were. The Lansing family cemetery was in Lansingburgh and was moved to Oakwood sometime in the 1850s-60s. The Jacob I. Vanderheyden family cemetery in Troy was moved to Mount Ida Cemetery on Pawling sometime between 1852 and 1878 and the Jacob D. Vanderheyden family cemetery in Troy was moved to Oakwood in 1857. I’d run across mention of a Tibbits family cemetery before, but don’t know where it was. The two McCoun cemeteries and Heartt cemetery are unknown to me. In addition to those additional cemetery locations, sometimes directly after a person’s name in the “Names of those Interred” column is a notation “(Potters field)”. Sometimes “in Potters field” is written across an entry’s row in the “Individual Ground” columns. I’m not sure of the location of Troy’s potters field(s) in the 1830s-40s. Sometimes a place is named in parenthesis after a person’s name: “(Albia)”, “(West Troy)”; they might mean those people were buried there rather than that they were from there or died there. At http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyrensse/troybur3.htm those places have been added as a “Where Died” column, but it’s not identified as such in the original. A “Friends Ground” (i.e. the Quakers) column was later added; that cemetery was subsequently moved to Oakwood around 1856. Later records do away with the “Individual Ground” columns and separate only “Corporation Ground” and “Catholic Ground.” Determining which municipal cemetery for interments made from 1833 up to July 1, 1850 would be guesswork, mostly. Some of the people might show up in old transcriptions of Troy cemeteries. Others, it might be possible to determine in which ward of the city they lived. A November 19, 1846 entry is for an unnamed one-year-old “Child at Nail Factory”; I’d guess he or she was buried at the Nail Factory Cemetery. >From July 1, 1850 on, specific cemeteries in Troy are named. Interments in other places are also identified: Albany, Albia, Berlin, Bolton, Brunswick, Chester, Clifton Park, Glens Falls, Greenbush, Kingsbury, Middlefield, New York City, Pittstown, Sand Lake, Saratoga Springs, Saugherties, Utica, Waterford, Watervliet, West Troy, White Creek, among others in New York. Boston, Charlton, and Pittsfield in Massachusetts; Connecticut; Vermont, and others. Generally cemeteries in municipalities other than Troy aren’t named, though sometimes they are for the closest ones. Causes of death are sometimes detailed: “Accidentally shot himself while hunting near Mt Ida Cemetery” “Strangled to Death by Husband” “Killed by being Run over by Hose Cart” “Fell from Young Mens Association Building” “imprudent use cathartics” Chris