Give me the info and I will try as time permits. Fred ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Faircloth" <[email protected]> To: "NY Columbia County" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 12:30 PM Subject: [NYCOLUMB] Cemetery lookup > Would someone with access to Columbia cemetery books be willing to do some > lookups? > > Ray > [email protected] > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I, too, am looking for ancestors who are very likely buried somewhere in Columbia County. I wondered if Fred wouldn't mind looking them up, also. But I have about 7 or 8 names. That's kind of a lot and I don't want to be an imposition. If it would be OK to send you the names, or perhaps just a few of them, please advise. If it's a pain, just let me know. I know how busy everyone is nowadays! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fred Saar Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 12:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NYCOLUMB] Cemetery lookup Give me the info and I will try as time permits. Fred ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Faircloth" <[email protected]> To: "NY Columbia County" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 12:30 PM Subject: [NYCOLUMB] Cemetery lookup > Would someone with access to Columbia cemetery books be willing to do some > lookups? > > Ray > [email protected] > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

In 2000, I put online an index of over 60,000 names of people buried in Columbia County (40 webpages). Lawrence Rickard had made indexes for 50 books of cemetery transcriptions at the Columbia County Historical Society which were unindexed. He later combined the 50 indexes into one Master Index. I got permission from him and CCHS to put the indexed names online. The purpose of this project was twofold; to help genealogists find their ancestors, and to help the Columbia County Historical Society earn some money. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~clifflamere/Cem/Col/CEM-ColMaster.htm I also made seven trips to the Columbia County Historical Society to write down what cemetery was on each page of the 50 books. Then, I created a webpage from that information. Using the list of cemeteries in conjunction with the lists of names, you get a pretty good idea of where a person was buried. If a person lived in Kinderhook, and there is a listing for someone by that name in the Kinderhook Cemetery, it is likely that you have the right person. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~clifflamere/Cem/Col/CEM-ColCo-Bks.htm On the webpage that has the cemetery list, there are also directions on how to order photocopies of the pages you need from those cemetery books. After paying $5 for the first photocopy, the rest are just $2 each. In an age when a vital records certificate in this state costs $22, the prices at CCHS are so low that nobody should object to paying for the copies. And CCHS needs to have income or donations if we want to insure that it is there in the years to come. Cliff Lamere ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~