>From Mike Riley, referred to us by his friend Mark Bodnar. I recommended he peruse our Website to see projects as well as the very helpful resource guide, and told him how to join our List of helpful knowledgeable people. Any help we can offer is greatly appreciated, Gerri "Since Mark said how helpful the Troy Irish are, I wanted to ask for your help. I have been to the Troy library more than once looking for my Irish Riley's. I have tried Watervliet assuming West Troy documents were there. I have tried NY archive and Dept of Health for death records. I have contacted all the old Catholic churches in Troy and Watervliet. I have used Ancestry for a few years. I am lost finding my grandfather's parents. They are listed on his death certificate and give my grandfather's birth as 1886. So I had a starting point. The next generation moved to Watervliet or I assumed they moved from Troy. One of my questions to Mark was what happened to the town of Watervliet, which held all of Colonie? I see an address in an 1880 census as Lisa kills in Watervliet. The Riley's lived in that district. Lisa kills is almost to Schenectady. So if my Riley's lived in Lisa kills (town of watervliet, where are the records? Colonie, Schenectady, Watervliet? I have been to city hall and then the historical society in Watervliet. I have also tried different spellings, looking at my great grandmother's side for ideas. I got nothing. Lastly I tried to find them in Rensselaer county cemetery records. Nada."