I called a local funeral home. The person I talked with had been in the business only five years. He did not know of a regulation that controlled where the records go when a funeral home closes. He did say that burial information has to be preserved for 30 years. He thought that if a funeral home was bought by another, records older than 30 years might get shredded. I think that a funeral home probably would keep all of their own records until they go out of business. I phoned Manuscripts & Special Collections, a part of the NYS Library. They apparently do get some of the retired funeral home records, because they asked me the name of the funeral home. There was a pause and I was told they do not have the ones for Owens Funeral Chapel. Cliff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Darleen Lansing wrote: >Does anyone know if the Owens Funeral Chapel at 9 Second St. in Albany still exists? I am trying to locate funeral records for someone who died & was buried from there in 1935. >Thank you for any assistance > >Dara > >deliarye777@yahoo.com > > > >====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 > > >