“Local officials desiring to dispose of any records created before 1910 should telephone or write [the State Archives and Records Administration] SARA, to obtain disposition request forms. This requirement also applies to the disposition of original records predating 1910 which have been microfilmed. SARA will review each request and advise the local government on retention or disposition of the records” (x). > CEMETERY > 1.[63] Record of lot owners, “deed book," or equivalent record: > RETENTION: PERMANENT > 2.[64] Bill of sale issued to purchaser of lots: > RETENTION: 6 years > ♦3.[65] Informational copy of deed for lot, request for deed to be prepared, or request for copy of deed: > RETENTION: 0 after no longer needed > 4.[66] Inscription taken from headstones: > RETENTION: PERMANENT > 5.[67] Interment, exhumation or removal records: > RETENTION: PERMANENT > 6.[68] Maps, plot plans and surveys: > RETENTION: PERMANENT > 7.[69] Permit of approval necessary to erect monument or perform other work on cemetery lot, including application and related records: > RETENTION: 6 years (24) Records Retention and Disposition Schedule MU-1 for Use by Cities, Towns, Villages, Fire Districts. 2003. http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/records/mr_pub_mu1.pdf http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/records/mr_pub_mu1.shtml With respect to the Rensselaer County Almshouse Cemetery in Troy (abandoned, located somewhere around Griswold Heights Apartments and east of St. Joseph’s Cemetery): > 20.[633] Cemetery records relating to alms house or county home, including but not limited to interment, exhumation or removal records; inscriptions from headstones; burial permits; and maps or surveys of grave locations: > RETENTION: PERMANENT (218) Records Retention and Disposition Schedule CO-2 for Use by Counties. 2006. http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/records/mr_pub_co2.pdf