Here is the address for the Columbia County town offices and clerks: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nycolumb/clerks.html Jean, thank you very much for the compliment about my website It is very much appreciated. Regards, Susan ************************************************* "If you can't get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." -- George Bernard Shaw Columbia County, NY Coordinator http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/columbia/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Snow" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 3:23 PM Subject: [NYCOL] Town/village historian? > Is there a Claverack or Philmont historical society or historian? > > I'm trying to find out exactly when and where my widowed grandfather, > Edwin Pier Chapman married widow Myrtie Philip Allen (the grandmother I > knew). According to the 1900 Census it must have been 1898. I thinkthe > marriage was probably in Philmont, as that was where Myrtie had been born > and lived all her life, until after Grandpa died in 1946. > > And Grandpa's obit says he had been a member of the Reformed Church in > Philmont (this was the Second Reformed Church of Claverack, Philmont) and > a member of the Philmont Lodge of Masons. I know I wrote that church many > years ago, but nobody every replied. Maybe I should try again. > > I want to congratulate and say thanks to Susan Stalker Mulvey. I haven't > visited the Columbia County website in a long time. What a truly beautiful > and well-organized site it is -- one of the finest I've seen.
This link is more up to date than the one on the rootsweb.com website (which I will update soon): http://www.cchsny.org/coll_links_resources.html Ginny Formel administrator, rootsweb.com/~nycolumb/ smulvey <[email protected]> wrote: Here is the address for the Columbia County town offices and clerks: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nycolumb/clerks.html Jean, thank you very much for the compliment about my website It is very much appreciated. Regards, Susan ************************************************* "If you can't get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." -- George Bernard Shaw Columbia County, NY Coordinator http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/columbia/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Snow" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 3:23 PM Subject: [NYCOL] Town/village historian? > Is there a Claverack or Philmont historical society or historian? > > I'm trying to find out exactly when and where my widowed grandfather, > Edwin Pier Chapman married widow Myrtie Philip Allen (the grandmother I > knew). According to the 1900 Census it must have been 1898. I thinkthe > marriage was probably in Philmont, as that was where Myrtie had been born > and lived all her life, until after Grandpa died in 1946. > > And Grandpa's obit says he had been a member of the Reformed Church in > Philmont (this was the Second Reformed Church of Claverack, Philmont) and > a member of the Philmont Lodge of Masons. I know I wrote that church many > years ago, but nobody every replied. Maybe I should try again. > > I want to congratulate and say thanks to Susan Stalker Mulvey. I haven't > visited the Columbia County website in a long time. What a truly beautiful > and well-organized site it is -- one of the finest I've seen. --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min.