ANNOUNCING NEW DATA BASE BOOK 3 - STYLES FUNERAL HOME, TROY, NY Book 3 showing burials from the Styles Funeral Home in Troy, NY during the years 1939 to 1949 has just been added to the Troy Irish Genealogy Website. You can view these records by going to the TIGS website at: www.troyirish.com and click on PROJECTS and then click on STYLES FUNERAL HOME RECORDS, TROY, NY. For the most part these records are of South Troy residents who were born in the Troy area while a number of older individuals were born in Ireland or Poland. Genealogy researchers will find lots of useful information in these records. Many of the individuals records will show the following details: Age and sometimes date of birth. Last Place of Residence. Place of Birth. Occupation. Status - Married, Single, Widowed. Name of Father & Mother With Their Place of Birth. Name of Spouse. Date of Death. Place of Death. Place of Funeral - May Indicate Home Parish. Date & Place of Interment. Newspaper Notice - Name of Newspaper That Published Obituary. Notes - Identifies Many of the Floral Tributes, i.e. "Mother", Father", "Wife", etc. Special thanks goes to Thomas Styles, Jr. for allowing the Troy Irish Genealogy Society to copy information from the Styles Burial Books and to publish the information on the TIGS website. A history of the Styles Funeral Home along with some interesting photographs is also part of this data base. Book 3 entries end with recording the death of Thomas Styles, Sr. Apparently later funeral home records were kept in individual folders and not recorded in the burial books. Regards, Bill McGrath TIGS Project Coordinator Clifton Park, NY