List members may be interested in the following message about the TIGS new data base on interments in St. John's Cemetery, Albany, NY. The writer found our website by chance and located her Dutch gg grandfather that she had been searching for seven years. Regards, Bill McGrath Clifton Park, NY TEXT OF MESSAGE: Hello, I've only recently discovered your incredible records from the Albany St Johns Cemetery. Although I am part Irish, I was looking for my Dutch great great grandfather (and have been searching for him in vain for 7 yrs now). The German line is all buried in Our Lady Help of Christians. On my great great grandfathers death certificate - it just said buried in Catholic German cemetery. I've been on a wild goose chase for 7 years looking for a Catholic German cemetery other than OLHC. Imagine my shock to find out that his church St Johns in Albany had its own cemetery. No one ever told me this before - even though i began my search with St Johns/St Anns genealogy office. Just by chance I came to find the records that you posted on the Troy Irish Genealogy Society website while looking for an Irish ancestor. Who the heck who have believed that I would have found my Dutch GGF on an Irish site. Anyhoo, now that after 7 years of searching I found my Dutch ancestors were buried in an Irish cemetery that no longer exists. Can you advise where I go from here? If I understand correctly, I should try with the St. Agnes and Calvary cemeteries, is that correct? Pretty sure I've been that route before and was told ....no record :( Any help you can provide me would be awesome. I'm so close. I don't want to give up now. By the by my GGF's name was Henry A Reitford or Rietford - it was spelled differently on every record including his death certificate. Guess no one could understand the Dutch language. On the St Johns cemetery record it is listed as Rielford. Please help. Thanks so much. And Happy Holidays! Sincerely, Maureen Roberts