This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jpjennings Surnames: Hans Osterhout Cutler Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.albany/7662/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Are there records available for an adoption that would have taken place in the city of Albany in 1858? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jupag2232 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.albany/7661/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I lost contact with Joanne - years ago, the last time I saw her she was married to Craig Cheetam but they were seperated- her Mom's name is Marge- she has two brothers John & Joey, she's about 48 years old. My last name at that time was Diotte. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: cbampalmer Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.albany/866.878/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Mary (Polly) Sears b. 03 Feb 1788 Chatham,Co. CT. Confirmed by Descendants of Richard Sears(SARES) and Shufelt "Our Folks" books. Adelia and Washburn moved to Oswego Co, NY in 1840 and to Rockford, IL abt. 1880. She died there in 1883. I've more information if you need it. Chris Palmer Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Suggest you post a name and dates, someone may have a connection. You are correct that church records best place to look. Also search church records at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~clifflamere/

Is there anyone on the list who has a connection to an Arthur ELLIOTT who was born in Albany,NY....July 12,1823... to a James and Anna Elliott? James was from Scotland and Anna was probably from Northern Ireland. Hopefully the birth or christening will be recorded in a Parish Register somewhere in the city. Please email me at... dannnan1@bellsouth.net Danny Guinan in Charleston,SC ----- Original Message ----- From: <theclown16@optonline.net> To: "Daniel Gannon" <dannnan1@bellsouth.net>; <nyalbany@rootsweb.com> Cc: <nyalbany@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 2:36 PM Subject: Re: [NYALBANY] Finding a Birth in 1823 > Suggest you post a name and dates, someone may have a connection. You are > correct that church records best place to look. Also search church records > at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~clifflamere/

Kathy, I could not find an obit for Henry. I checked the Times Union 9/27-10/15/1960. Here is the listing in the City Directory: 1960 Henry C Stoddard ashman 190 Orange St. Henry C Stoddard 192 Orange St. with Ruth M Stoddard 1961 Henry C Soddard 254 Elk St. with Ruth M Stoddard Sorry, John > I've tried to find someone on the Obituary Lookup List and also in RAOGK > for > a volunteer who looks for obits in Albany County. Can anyone help me? I'm > trying to locate the obituary for my Great-Grandmother's brother, Henry > STODDARD, who died in Albany, 30 Sept. 1960. > > Thank you. > Kathy Campbell > > ====NY-Albany Mailing List==== > Check out the mailing list's website > at:http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/Albany/ > Add/check your Albany surnames on the Surname Registry. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYALBANY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Is there anyone on the list who can tell me how to go about finding a birth or christening in Albany,NY in 1823? My guess it will have to be through Parish Records. If someone could tell me which churches in Albany in 1823 would be catering to Scottish Emigrants..that would be of importance..I believe. Thanks. Please email me at.. dannnan1@bellsouth.net Danny Guinan

"We are developing a new archive system, which we will roll out in a few weeks. On Sept. 29 our current archives were closed to new stories while we build our new system... Our online archives are provided at no cost to the user. The archives contain most staff-written stories published in the Times Union from March 1986 through September 2008 (obituaries since 1993)." I phoned Times Union to find out if the archives would be free after the new system was put in place. It will be. They used to charge $2 for each article that you viewed in the archives. They weren't selling enough articles. They make most of their money from the online advertising. I was told that a breaking news story got as many hits in one day as the entire archives got in a full year. So, they want to greatly increase the useage of the archives even if they have to give free access to the articles. Obituaries are included in the archives, but not the photo that might have accompanied the obituary (today, about 20-30% of the obituaries include a photo). As in the past, the obituaries will also be available free on Legacy for one year. I was told that the advantage on the Legacy site is a better search engine. However, I know you can only search for the deceased person's name. The Times Union archives would allow you to search for Valentine and Ralph and thereby get a hit for the son of the deceased person who was listed only by first name. Obituaries are easy to identify when you are looking through a lot of hits. A person's name makes up the complete title of the hit. Their new archives will be available about February 15. It will contain all of the articles that were archived in the past, plus the ones since September. TU is currently merging the old articles archived under that old system into the new system. Once available, their search engine will be different from the one available today. But, until then I would like to make some suggestions for using the current search engine. I used the free archives a great deal yesterday when I found it. When you arrive at the site, the search engine is set up to use certain default settings. Even if you know the year a person died, it would also make sense to search for occurences of his/her name in deed transfer notices and news articles (in other words, everything on the site). For my own use, I did the following: I changed the year to "All Years." I changed the order of the articles to "from oldest to newest" although that won't matter to most people. You might change it to "relevance" although I couldn't tell what criteria were used. I changed the limit to 250 articles. If you leave it at 25, that is all the hits you will get, and you won't be able to see any of the rest. The "connector" can be important. I did a search for a surname alone. It got too many hits because a staff member had the same name, and he wrote a lot of articles. I set the connector to "But not" and entered the name Robert. That eliminated some of his articles, but he also publishes under the name Bob. So... I tried something that sometimes works with search engines even if they don't tell you about it. In the "search words" box, after the surname and a space, I typed the following: "BUTNOT Bob" That allowed me to get rid of Robert and Bob in a single search. BUTNOT does not have to be capitalized, but there can't be a space between the words. Some search engines may require it to be in caps. Unless you use your Back button to return to the search engine, all of your settings will revert back to the default settings. Without knowing it, you may end up searching for 2008 only. http://www.timesunion.com/archives/ Obituaries in the Times Union appear only if someone pays for their publication. The following counties are generally included: Albany and Rensselaer have the most, but also Columbia, Saratoga and Schenectady. Greene and Schoharie are only occasionally represented. There also some for people who died outside the area (like Florida) who formerly lived locally. News articles get a much wider local coverage than the obituaries, so the site is worth using even if you are not looking for an obituary. Sorry for the length of this email. Sometimes I just don't know what to leave out. Cliff Lamere

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: theclown16 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.albany/7617.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: many old small Cemeteries listed here. http://www.vanderheijden.org/gen/guilderland/text.html Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Is there anyone on the list who has access to the 1823 Albany,NY City Directory? If so,would you please contact me at... dannnan1@bellsouth.net Thanks. Danny Guinan in Charleston,SC

With regard to the person looking for an obit look up in Albany, and anyone researching ancestors in the Capitol region. The Albany Times union website has an archive search going back to 1986. That's over twenty years of obits and more. Select Archives from the main page, and when you come to the search page, make sure you select " ALL YEARS" from the drop down menu, (set at 2008 by default). You can also narrow your selection based on whatever dates you have. As of now they are not charging for the stories. They did charge in the past to view a story, but for now they are not. Good luck with searches. I have found some ancestors obits and added several names to my family tree, so take advantage of it. Don _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Hotmail®:…more than just e-mail. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_explore_012009

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: zijzij Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.albany/7617.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Oops. I forgot the first link I was referring to when I said go here: http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/index.html Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: zijzij Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.albany/7617.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: If you go here, click on search and type in Ostrander Cemetery in Albany County, you get the latitude and longitude for the cemetery. The results also lead you to a link that maps those coordinates using google maps, yahoo maps etc. Here's the google map for the location of the cemetery: http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis538/getgooglemap?p_lat=42.7334093&p_longi=-74.1151274&fid=959521 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jomccul23 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.albany/7617.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: There is a new web site called AlbanyHilltowns.com/ which might help you find the Ostrander Farm. I am not researching your family, but I have found this web site very helpful to my research. Hope this helps. Jo-Ann Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Is there anyone on the list who is researching the ELLIOTT Surname in Albany,NY? My wife's Elliott's date back to the 1820's there and were from Scotland..possibly Roxburgh. My wife's 3X great grandfather was a James Elliott. Please contact me at.. dannnan1@bellsouth.net Thanks. Danny Guinan in Charleston,SC

I just checked the Times Union site. Their archived obituaries go back to 1993. The obituaries are online free for a period of one year, but they are not maintained by Times Union. They are on the site of Legacy which archives obituaries for many newspapers around the country. After a year, there is probably a small fee. There was six months ago. Cliff theclown16@optonline.net wrote: >Try the Times Union Newspaper site. Not sure how far back the archives go and assume a small fee may be required for a copy. > >

Try the Tomes Union Newspaper site. Not sure how far back the archives go and assume a small fee may be required for a copy.

Kathy, If no one else comes forward, when I have a chance I'll go to the main library and look it up for you. John > I've tried to find someone on the Obituary Lookup List and also in RAOGK > for > a volunteer who looks for obits in Albany County. Can anyone help me? I'm > trying to locate the obituary for my Great-Grandmother's brother, Henry > STODDARD, who died in Albany, 30 Sept. 1960. > > Thank you. > Kathy Campbell > > ====NY-Albany Mailing List==== > Check out the mailing list's website > at:http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/Albany/ > Add/check your Albany surnames on the Surname Registry. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYALBANY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I've tried to find someone on the Obituary Lookup List and also in RAOGK for a volunteer who looks for obits in Albany County. Can anyone help me? I'm trying to locate the obituary for my Great-Grandmother's brother, Henry STODDARD, who died in Albany, 30 Sept. 1960. Thank you. Kathy Campbell

Barbara, Please send me a copy of what you find for Yvonne Mahar. To make your job easier, Matthew Gill died Mar 1903. Edward Gardinier died in 1948, later than the records you have. His wife was alive in 1948, so you won't find her either. I would appreciate information on the following son. Edward B. Gardinier d 4 Jun 1917 Even though I have the basic information, I would like a record to quote. Where can I read more about the CD? I couldn't find it on Google. I need its actual name and the compiler's name if it is available. I'd appreciate any help you can give. Cliff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi Barbara I have family that belonged to that church. The Emerich /Emerick family from Prussia who moved to Albany about 1860 Frederick and Caroline Emerich had a daughter Margaret who married Matthew Gill in Albany about 1864 probably at St Johns. They are both buried at St Johns Lutheran Church Sand Creek Road Albany. Margaret Emerick Gill died in May 1881 and Matthew Gill died March 1903 or 1904. They had a daughter (Martha) Elizabeth Gill who married Edward Gardinier, they are probably buried there too. Any information you can get me from your CD would be greatly recieved. Thanks for your kind offer Yvonne Mahar ireland@capital.net Barbara wrote: >the death records are wonderfully complete..-date and place of death, full >name (includes maiden name of self or spouse)-parents if young,where andwhen >born, where lived-giving many times complete address, where and when funeral >takes place, age, cause of death, where buried and who the survivors >are-sometimes by name and relation-sometimes just by relation. >Yes, the approx. death date will help locate them because, as I said, there >isn't an index. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "James E Kaufman" <guitarmn@nycap.rr.com> >To: <nyalbany@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 7:45 AM >Subject: Re: [NYALBANY] St. John's Ev. Lutheran Church of Albany > > > > >>Barbara wrote: >> >> >> >>>the cd is not nane indexed, I should have said when I offered, but is set >>>up >>>in "book numbers" by event and years. I would need names and a say 10 >>>yr. >>>time span in which to look for baptism, wedding, or funeral. If you can >>>give me that, I will gladly look. >>>Barbara in AZ >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>I have a copy of the Record Books 1857-1946 of the above named Church >>>>>on >>>>>CD. I will do look ups for those looking for members during this time >>>>>period. The members of this church seem to be all of German >>>>>descendency, >>>>>with an occasional Polish name noted. The church was located at 125 >>>>>Central Ave. in Albany and the cemetery is on Sand Creek Rd, not too >>>>>far >>>>>from Memory Garden. >>>>> >>>>>Barbara in AZ >>>>> >>>>>