Ok, if I remember. I don't anticipate being in Plattsburg until late spring, early summer. Tom Sue Jones wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > May I as you a favor? If you are ever in the Clinton County area, could you > look at these ledgers and try and find the births and marriages for two > couples? They are on father and son. I am trying to find the birth of John > C. Roberts of Plattsburgh. He was born 1812. His parents were Joseph > Roberts and Sarah Beman. He married Harriet Stockwell supposedly in > Plattsburgh about 1846. Then I am looking for the same information on > John's son, Darwin. > > Darwin Roberts was born in 1847 in Plattsburgh and married Martha Amailla > Harris on Jan. 1, 1869. > > I have been searching without any success for these documents and no one > either has them or will help. If it is some help to you, they were all > Protestants that did not adhere to any one particular denomination. They > went to whatever church was closest at the time. > > Thank-you for any and all assistance. If you are able to get any document > please let me know your address and the cost so I can pay you. > > Sue Jones > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas W. Perrin <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 8:02 PM > Subject: Re: [NYCLINTO-L] Vital Records Books for Clinton County > > >Surrogate Court records are for the whole county. There are two ledgers > which > >contain a "roughly" alphabetical index for those who are deceased from the > >1790's to the present time. The same ledger is for those who died with a > will and > >those who did not. In St. Lawrence County, for example, there are separate > >ledgers for those who died testate and intestate. These ledgers give the > death > >date and administrative dates. The actual probate documents are filed > elsewhere > >in the room, in small steel containers, by first letter of the last name, > and > >then by date. These usually contain the petition, which is useful for > >genealogists because it has the names of living relatives, and the estate > >inventory, which I always find fascinating. The will, if any, is retyped > and > >inserted into a will book. In St. Lawrence County, the will, or a > handwritten > >copy of it (before the advent of typewriters) is filed with the rest of the > >probate documents. > > > >In modern times, survivors of a deceased person in St. Lawrence County are > asked > >to fill out a genealogical chart going back a couple of generations and > forward > >three or so generations from the deceased. Now ain't that wonderful! > > > >For TB deaths, I would check Saranac Lake records. Maybe he died at the > Trudeau > >Sanitarium (of which Doonesbury Creator Gary Trudeau is a descendant). I > believe > >that Saranac probates were handled by Clinton County Surrogate Court but > wouldn't > >want to say so emphatically without checking a map. > > > >By the way, I found the people at the Surrogate Court office very pleasant > to > >deal with and very helpful. > > > >tom > > > >[email protected] wrote: > > > >> To Thomas , Were those death records you found in Plattsburg Probate > Court > >> for all of Clinton County. I am looking for the death of my > gr-grandfather > >> who died of TB around 1885 in Clinton County but I do not know where he > >> died. His wife and children were in Dannemora at the time but he did not > die > >> there. Any suggestion? Margo > > > >