I received a CD from Omni Group of Hartgen Archaeology’s report about the Woodside/former monastery site, addressing the existence of the cemetery. 228 pages total, 25MB in size. TIGS’ webpage about the cemetery is cited, you might be pleased to know! To excerpt some points with respect to the cemetery: Hartgen found “no record of burials being removed from this cemetery and reinterred elsewhere” and noted “Archeological excavations in cities throughout United States including local investigations completed by Hartgen in Albany, Colonie, Glens Falls, and Rome, New York have shown that removal and reinterment was rare.” They dug some shallow trenches and found evidence of burials that had never been disturbed, i.e. no disinterments had ever been made for those burials. “The grave shafts were uncovered about 12 inches (30.5 cm) below the current ground surface. Hartgen did not explore the shafts by digging deeper. Also, no human remains, traces of coffins, or coffin hardware were found. This suggests that the burials are intact and have not been disturbed by subsequent activities.” Hartgen had marked boundaries with “pin flags and flagging” based on the 1873 Young and Blake map and 1881 Hopkins map. I don’t entirely understand their reasoning, since they seemingly put a lot of faith in the exact accuracy of the old maps and the exact accuracy of their overlay. Regarding the ten-foot tall cross: “the size and concrete and iron rebar construction suggest that it is associated with the 20th-century monastery and not the cemetery.” Presumably because they were advising avoidance of the site and because that advice is going to be followed, no exhaustive search was made for grave markers, there was no attempt to determine the location of all the burials within the site, etc. Chris