Hi List, I was at my local family history center today looking at a film I had requested which was Unpublished cemetery, church and town records of Chenango Co. NY, Vol. 1-2. What a mess that was. It was a film of a typescript volume the official title as follows: Volume 46 of New York State Series Cemetery, Church & Town Records, by the D.A.R. property of Guernsey Memorial Library, Norwich, NY. Presented to the library by the Captain John Harris Chapter, D.A.R. 1933. The pages were typed on what must have been very thin paper, as each page had the ink leached into it from the page previous and the page after. If there was a clear spot on a page I could sort of read bits from the next page but in most cases not at all. Sometimes the clearest image was on the filmed back side of a page which had a backwards image of the page before. Reading backwards is not easy either. So I guess my question is does anybody know if I can get this information elsewhere? Inge Kellier Edmonton _________________________________________________________________ One at a time or all at once? Get updates from your friends in one place. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9660827

Try the Chenango County Historical Museum in Norwich NY. -----Original Message----- From: nychenan-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nychenan-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Inge Kellier Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 6:09 PM To: nychenan@rootsweb.com Subject: [NYCHENAN] Church Records Hi List, I was at my local family history center today looking at a film I had requested which was Unpublished cemetery, church and town records of Chenango Co. NY, Vol. 1-2. What a mess that was. It was a film of a typescript volume the official title as follows: Volume 46 of New York State Series Cemetery, Church & Town Records, by the D.A.R. property of Guernsey Memorial Library, Norwich, NY. Presented to the library by the Captain John Harris Chapter, D.A.R. 1933. The pages were typed on what must have been very thin paper, as each page had the ink leached into it from the page previous and the page after. If there was a clear spot on a page I could sort of read bits from the next page but in most cases not at all. Sometimes the clearest image was on the filmed back side of a page which had a backwards image of the page before. Reading backwards is not easy either. So I guess my question is does anybody know if I can get this information elsewhere? Inge Kellier Edmonton _________________________________________________________________ One at a time or all at once? Get updates from your friends in one place. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9660827 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYCHENAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Inge It is not unusual to find microfilms of old Cemetery or Church Records are difficult to read. I have spent many years going through numerous microfilms of that type (including Census films). Not to mention that many of these records are usually not in any specific order either. The good point is that it is far less expensive than traveling to seek information. . Reviewing microfilms is not easily or readily done; most times requiring much time and labor to obtain successful information and documentation. However the DAR Cemetery Records are considered acceptable documentation for many lineage applications (but not all) and the various transcriptions one finds on the internet (that are retyped) are not acceptable (nor tombstone pictures). It is one of the difficulties of researching. One finds that old hand written record books (church, tax, court or land records) are also difficult to read, but very valuable for Genealogy documentation. Pat R On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Inge Kellier <ikellier@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > I was at my local family history center today looking at a film I had > requested which was Unpublished cemetery, church and town records of > Chenango Co. NY, Vol. 1-2. What a mess that was. It was a film of a > typescript volume the official title as follows: > > > > Volume 46 of New York State Series Cemetery, Church & Town Records, by the > D.A.R. property of Guernsey Memorial Library, Norwich, NY. Presented to the > library by the Captain John Harris Chapter, D.A.R. 1933. > > > > The pages were typed on what must have been very thin paper, as each page > had the ink leached into it from the page previous and the page after. If > there was a clear spot on a page I could sort of read bits from the next > page but in most cases not at all. Sometimes the clearest image was on the > filmed back side of a page which had a backwards image of the page before. > Reading backwards is not easy either. > > > > So I guess my question is does anybody know if I can get this information > elsewhere? > > Inge Kellier > > Edmonton > > _________________________________________________________________ > One at a time or all at once? Get updates from your friends in one place. > http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9660827 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYCHENAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >