October 17, 1850: > Resolved That the burying ground known as the New or Third burying ground of the City be hereafter known as the “Mount Ida Cemetery” Adopted. image of the above from the original handwritten record book https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Mt-S77wZKfRnVRQkxxOE9lUjQ/edit?usp=sharing > By Ald. Cole: [...] Resolved, That the Burying ground known as the New or Third Burying ground of this city, be known hereafter as the Mount Ida Cemetery. Adopted. “Common Council Proceedings. (Regular Meeting.) October 17, 1850.” Troy Daily Budget. October 19, 1850: 2 col 5. The above was the Mount Ida Cemetery on Pawling Avenue, since the land for the New Mount Ida Cemetery in Pinewoods Avenue wouldn’t be purchased until a few more years later. The First burying ground (I’m supposing) was the Third Street one, and the Second burying ground probably the Old Mount Ida Cemetery at Cypress Street. Some of the entries for the Troy Burial Records http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyrensse/troybury.htm designate the cemeteries by numbers rather than names. Some of the earliest minutes were transcribed by the Troy City Historian Irving Fancher in the 1930s. The typewritten indexes in Fancher’s books seem to be not of his transcriptions, which do not follow the same pagination, but of the original books - and thus are useless unless those can be found. I don’t know if the original books he transcribed still exist. Following those, there’s some books like the one pictured in the above link which apparently have not been transcribed. Some of those have handwritten indexes, but they’re incomplete and shouldn’t be exclusively relied upon. Among the endless numbers of projects that can be imagined, transcribing the handwritten volumes of minutes might be yet another. Later minutes were published using a minute typeface, though those books of minutes are generally of unbound printed pages pasted into huge scrapbooks. At least one of those scrapbooks has the printed pages tipped in like in a stamp collection - pasted on one edge, and to see the other side of the printed page one has to flip the pasted-on page. All those books that are in type would be much easier to consult if scanned with optical character recognition (OCR). Some books are missing, though one could perhaps copy the minutes as published out of Troy newspapers for those periods of time if copies of the books don’t exist elsewhere. The library seems to have only up to 1987. Have they not been published since then, or did the the library stop getting copies? Chris