Thank you for your work on this cemetery. I have tried to find Brennans buried there and had little luck. I look forward to your additions to Find A Grave -----Original Message----- From: ny-troy-irish-gensoc-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ny-troy-irish-gensoc-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of ny-troy-irish-gensoc-request@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 3:00 AM To: ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com Subject: NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC Digest, Vol 9, Issue 198 ** NOTE ** When replying to a message in the digest please do two things: 1. Change the 'Subject' to that of the message you are replying to. 2. Delete all the messages above and below the one you are concerned with. Thank You - List Administrator Today's Topics: 1. St Patrick's Cemetery Watervliet (Christopher Philippo) 2. Re: St Patrick's Cemetery Watervliet (Kathy Fomuk) 3. Re: St Patrick's Cemetery Watervliet (Christopher Philippo) 4. Re: St Patrick's Cemetery Watervliet (Kathy Fomuk) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 18:08:50 -0400 From: Christopher Philippo <toff@mac.com> Subject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] St Patrick's Cemetery Watervliet To: TIGS <ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <7F88B705-CA3E-47EC-8929-42883C773556@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 I took over 300 photos in the southeast corner of St Patrick?s Cemetery in Watervliet today. Some are of stones I?d already added to findagrave in the past, or that others added, but I?m in the process of adding a number of ones that aren?t there: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSsr=1&GScid=66144&df=1& There?s many stones that are so dirty they can?t be read, or which are partially buried, or are inscription-side down and too large to move. I?m sure there?s many that are completely buried. There?s a number of stones for people from Ireland that indicate their county and parish. There?s also some later burials of Italians and Polish. I wonder if Italian-American and Polish-American groups in the area might have any info about people buried there, or if they might be willing to help with transcription and mapping? There?s also a good many veterans? headstones in the old section, but many of those are among those that are too dirty to read or are partially buried. There?s a new sign for the cemetery near the entrance, alongside all the signs that were already there. It could be more useful if it were nearer the Troy Schenectady Road. With there being no fence and gateway, the entrance is a little hard to spot from the road while approaching it until right at it. There seems to have been recent bulldozing in the back of the cemetery in one of the undeveloped portions, possibly with dirt having been trucked in, and large chunks of cement. The size of the bulldozed area and the amount of dirt seems larger than when I last visited earlier this month. Hopefully they?re being careful because there are some headstones in the woods. Chris