West Troy became Watervliet around 1900.Contact the city clerk in Watervliet they have records of births ,deaths and marriages before 1880.They are posted in ledger books.The library in Watervliet also has city directories which list for each year some but not all births,deaths ,marriages and moves from the city for each year.Someone at the library may also be able to help you. Albany Rural Cemetary is on the northern edge of Watervliet,it is avery large cemetary and they have very good records on burials there.There was a man who worked there who was very helpful in finding these records.I don't know if he is still there & I? do not remember his name. Doug Groner -----Original Message----- From: ROBERT PHELAN <lilwolf53@earthlink.net> To: NYALBANY@rootsweb.com Sent: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 7:16 pm Subject: [NYALBANY] FW: Henry Augustus Oakman If you can post the snippet below for page 130, I would deeply appreciate it. It has all the known details for possible assistance. lilwolf53@earthlink.net EarthLink Revolves Around You. ----- Original Message ----- From: ROBERT PHELAN To: NYALBANY-L@rootsweb.com Sent: 1/7/2009 8:12:31 PM Subject: FW: Henry Augustus Oakman I just visited your site and subscribed. I have a family branch member who seems to have passed away in West Troy, Albany in 1874. I believe NYS archives only has death certs from 1880 forward so I tried finding him in NYC as he married in1862 Brooklyn to no avail. He is missing shortly thereafter and probably settled in upstate after the Civil War where he was in the Union Army. The attached sniplet has him passing in Albany. That's all I have. I would appeciate any help with family or cemetery info or registers of life events for this family. If I can reciprocate for anyone in NYC Archives, feel free to ask and I will do my best to accomodate. Thanks for any/all info........ Robert C. Phelan lilwolf53@earthlink.net EarthLink Revolves Around You. ----- Original Message ----- From: Vicki Strickland To: lilwolf53@earthlink.net Sent: 1/7/2009 6:05:50 PM Subject: Henry Augustus Oakman Hi Robert, Happy new year to you! Hope you have had an enjoyable (and not too cold) Christmas. I have had a couple of days to myself of late and have been going through Google Books to see what I could find on various Oakmans. I have found something which is going to be of great interest to you. Source: ?The Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder? By Stephen Marion Watson Published by Genealogical Pub. Co., 1887 I?m not sure what Vol or issue ? just have publication year. Here?s the link for you: Link: http://books.google.com/books?id=3owMAAAAYAAJ&q=%22oakman%22+glasgow&dq=%22oakman%22+glasgow&lr=&ei=l_xjSZTYN4X-kwTqjMUo&pgis=1 Worth hunting it down???? Talk soon, Vicki ====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

The city of Albany had death certificates going back to 1870, but I had doubts about the city of Watervliet having death certificates in the 1870s. I phoned them today and confirmed that they don't have them. Buffalo and Yonkers go back to 1870 also. The city of Watervliet does have some vital records for 1849-1850 in a ledger. They won't allow an outsider to look at them. Beginning in 1847, school districts were supposed to collect vital records. I have seen some of those as late as 1851 online. For most parts of the state these records no longer exist. For other areas, they exist but are never mentioned by vital records offices. The city of Albany had theirs in 1942, but they don't know where they are now. These school district vital records were microfilmed for some areas. Cliff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ groner2413@aol.com wrote: >West Troy became Watervliet around 1900.Contact the city clerk in Watervliet they have records of births ,deaths and marriages before 1880.They are posted in ledger books.The library in Watervliet also has city directories which list for each year some but not all births,deaths ,marriages and moves from the city for each year.Someone at the library may also be able to help you. >Albany Rural Cemetary is on the northern edge of Watervliet,it is avery large cemetary and they have very good records on burials there.There was a man who worked there who was very helpful in finding these records.I don't know if he is still there & I? do not remember his name. >Doug Groner > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: ROBERT PHELAN >To: NYALBANY-L@rootsweb.com >Sent: 1/7/2009 8:12:31 PM >Subject: FW: Henry Augustus Oakman > > >I just visited your site and subscribed. I have a family branch member who >seems to have passed away in West Troy, Albany in 1874. I believe NYS archives >only has death certs from 1880 forward so I tried finding him in NYC as he >married in1862 Brooklyn to no avail. He is missing shortly thereafter and >probably settled in upstate after the Civil War where he was in the Union Army. > ><snip> >