TO LISTERS and Denise; A few years ago I was researching in Otsego,Delaware, and Broome Counties in NYS. A close friend in New Berlin, Chenango Co.,N.Y. and a D.A.R. member,Jean Frink, , had written to me before I left my home in CA. to suggest that, if I had never researched yet at the NY State Historical Society in Cooperstown, Otsego Co.,NY.--that I might like to try that as it had LOTS of microfilm , is a library, and has a large collection of older NYS. newspapers. I was wanting to see NYState Censuses among other 'wants'. Well, that year, I spent four [4] consecutive days researching at that Library. I have never seen much on Rootsweb about this location and many NYS researchers are missing a good bet. YOUR INQUIRY mentioned NYS Censuses. At that time, I was tracing an EVERETT family to pinpoint their migration among nearby counties.. At the Library, I was able-on-site-- to seek them consecutively on 1850-1855-1860-1865-1870.etc.. I was astonished because all other places have one or two of the state censuses but not in this consecutive pattern. ALL were on microfilm so there was that time needed to do this. But I found what I needed. Maybe I was just lucky in the scope of that search. Have any of you spent time researching in that Library? They no doubt do NOT have what NYG andB. had because their existence is newer. But well worth a visit. Since then, I happened NOT to have gone back and am not aware of their current on-line holdings,if any. They were most helpful locating items in the Library holdings , making suggestions, and encouraged me to write , or call, if I needed more after I went home. They will arrange a fee schedule for inquiries that they will try to fill. There is a daily-fee to use this Library: It may-then- have been $8.00 per day. However, I had taken with me basic descendancy-sheets ,Family-Group Sheets etc. for my 4 grandparents [I do not use a genealogy-computer-program] and asked if they would like copies for their files. They were very pleased to get more info. on these old NYS. families. AND, they returned my first-day $8.00 fee and did NOT charge me for the other 3 days! I heartily recommend this Library . Besides, the Cooperstown area is absolutely beautiful to just go and visit. Please allow plenty of time. One cannot run in, ask a few questions, and go away satisfied.. Yours, Charlotte J.Sheldon On Aug 4, 2008, at 9:03 PM, nywestch-request@rootsweb.com wrote: Today's Topics: 1. Re: "M" surnames in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (trinitydee@aol.com) 2. Fwd: Internet Subscription Recommendation:Godfrey Memorial Library in CT. (C J Sheldon) 3. Thanks for yur answers (Denise Jones) 4. Obit, newspaper? (Donald Cosgro) 5. Re: "M" surnames in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Judith Merritt) 6. Re: "M" surnames in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (trinitydee@aol.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:47:20 EDT From: trinitydee@aol.com Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] "M" surnames in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery To: nywestch@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <cf3.3b61aaf3.35c8a8b8@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" I live about 1 hour from Sleepy Hollow cemetery ,I have stones on my Jewell tree. I traveled on the north west of Texas two weeks ago you are so right about country cemeteries. We drove to texas and back to N.J., it only took three days each way,what a beautiful ride. In a message dated 8/3/2008 3:59:27 P.M. US Eastern Standard Time, jmerritt9@hughes.net writes: When we were in Westchester two yrs ago I noticed a lot of plce names being changed or formalized. Town of Courtlandt or at least some of it being Courtland Manor. We we come back we never know what town we will be in. I am hoping we can get to NY this Oct. but I am not counting on it for sure yet with all these prices. I think the renaming of thee Sleepy Hollow area kind of makes sense since everyone thinks of it as Sleepy Hollow anyway but I thinkit is sad that the road is so close to the graves, but on the other hand here in Texas where I live the cemetaries are often out in the country miles from everything. Thanks for mentioning the name change. Judy Judith Anne Seymour Merritt ----- Original Message ----- From: <MizScarlettNY@aol.com> To: <nybrooklyn-l@rootsweb.com>; <nywestch@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 1:12 PM Subject: [NYWESTCH] "M" surnames in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery > During a recent search of burials at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in > Tarrytown, > NY > [that section of the town was recently renamed Sleepy Hollow, NY] , I > recorded > a few other "M" surnames. This is all the information that I > transcribed. > > McCANN, Michael, age 89; Burial: 5/8/1862, Lot 237 > > McGINTY, James, age 48, cause = asthma; Burial 4/1/1869, Nacplenah > section, > Row 3, Grave 23 > > MAPES, Susan, age 16; Burial 2/15/1872 > > MAPES, William H., age 61; cause= aneurysm; Burial 3/10/1877; > Home: 161st Street, corner of Locust Avenue, NY NY > > #1569 MACK, James, no age, cause = accidental; Burial 3/26/1864, > Lot 407 > > The Sleepy Hollow Cemetery > 540 North Broadway > Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591 > 914.631.0081 > info@sleepyhollowcemetery.org > > Barb > N of NYC > > > > ************** > Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? > Read reviews on AOL Autos. > > (http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review? ncid=aolaut00050000000017 > ) > *************************************** > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message *************************************** Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ *************************************** ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review? ncid=aolaut00050000000017 ) ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 12:04:23 -0700 From: C J Sheldon <cjsheldonim@gmail.com> Subject: [NYWESTCH] Fwd: Internet Subscription Recommendation:Godfrey Memorial Library in CT. To: nywestch@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <3FB81FD6-F25C-494B-BBD8-AB475039EA46@Gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Begin forwarded message: From: C J Sheldon <CJSheldonim@Gmail.com> Date: August 2, 2008 10:48:47 AM PDT To: nywestch@rootsweb.com Cc: gts96@comcast.net nycentra@rootsweb.com www.godfrey.org, nydutche@rootsweb.com, nycortla@rootsweb.com, Black Wendy <WendyHoo@Gmail.com> Subject: Internet Subscription Recommendation:Godfrey Memorial Library in CT. To Denise Jones and others : The GODFREY Library, with MANY Databases can be visited without charge for some of their databases. The Library itself is located in Middletown, CT.and was incorporated in 1947.......... The url is www.godfrey.org. .......... .I believe they 'partner' ,also, with www.familysearch.org Since this Library's location is adjacent-so to speak- to NYS as well as Long Island and the New England States--the Library is 'heavy' on these areas, Denise. I, also, have 1600 and 1700 ancestors from New Amsterdam and Long Island / New Haven Colony---who worked their way up into Westchester,then Duchess Co.,then on up the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys. Let me tell you of ONE of their very useful databases, for example, for very early NYS. researchers which I have mined and am still using extensively: About the late 1890's, the New York Geg. and Biog. Society hired a well-known researcher / author of early Westchester Co.when it was NOT a county but just called Westchester-William S.Pelletreau, to 'read' the old NY/ New Ansterdam original WILL-books which were where? Sorry, I do not know, but originally were in the New York [city] Surrogate's Office and at White Plains ,NY. I n these late1800-earlier 1900's this was the kind of really good-genealogical work that the NYGBS was famous for accomplishing. These books-the earliest over 200 years old when Mr.Pelletreau was hired, were not in good shape-especially the earliest ones. Those remnants-if possible-were copied as they appeared-and damaged- with some readable surnames and words. Then he continued ,chronologically, to EXCERPT all those early WILLS from New York to ,I think 1800. To realize the importance of this body of work--one must remember that because of the early Dutch, English, French, and Spanish SEA-TRADE and wars going on at this time around the Atlantic Ocean and up and down the east-coast of N.America-- where would all these people choose to go for legal business?To register WILLS, Property Transfers, etc. Often, either London or New Amsterdam / New York [city] were chosen. Holland less so-it appears. it amazes me, as I researched through 1660-1730,........the places people came from to Record their business in 'New York: Jamaica ,the Antilles , and all over the Caribbean Islands; up and down New Jersey and the Chesepeake; eastern Pennsylvania ; ;Long Island; Rhode Island; the lower Connecticut River; England and Holland. Obviously--ocean-going- business brought people here and it was convenient to also take care of other personal business at the same time. There were many inter-family-connections for me to find here in these WILL-extracts --by looking up the maiden- surnames of wives when I knew them and verifying places and locations which had not been clearly known--to give two examples.. On-site at Godfrey Library --in hard-copy--there are the ' 'BOSTON'Transcript' newspaper-genealogy columns [1890-1933 or so] and the famour CT. BARBOUR Collection. I live in CA., but have writteb ti Godfrey and arranged for Look-Ups from these most valuable collections. Although the GODFREY Library is NOT as well-known as NEHGS -to which I DO subscribe] or Ancestry.com [to which I do NOT subscribe on ethical grounds]--I find it very easy-to use and the best internet investment I have made. There are 4 Levels: I happened to select Level 3 of 4 levels and it is $80.per year. Level one may be 'no charge' but not sure as more may be accessed as a guest . Good luck, Charlotte J.Sheldon ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 15:53:55 -0400 From: "Denise Jones" <gtr96@comcast.net> Subject: [NYWESTCH] Thanks for yur answers To: "Nywestch@Rootsweb.Com" <nywestch@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <004801c8f66b$d4f7c3c0$bbc3be43@yourd0f670b45a> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Thank youfor your answers and honesty in my questions regarding what online records are the best. Since I have used Ancestry.com for years, I was in hopse of better records from the NY site. I am interested in the census of the state of NY not so much tha national. I have all I can use from there. Denise ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 13:16:31 -0400 From: "Donald Cosgro" <cosgrod@primelink1.net> Subject: [NYWESTCH] Obit, newspaper? To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <282C1525C47D4F74BAFD07838EB739EE@DHG9S391> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I am looking for suggestions on obtaining a New Rochelle or vicinity newspaper from the State Library for a Katherine Carlin who died in New Rochelle (53 Meadow Road? or Square) on September 4 1915. I have searched the NYS library web page to request the microfilm and see several newspapers. Anyone familiar with the newspapers of the time period and can point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it. Thank you. If anyone lives in the area and could travel to the library and provide a copy, that would be great. Don ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 17:37:18 -0500 From: "Judith Merritt" <jmerritt9@hughes.net> Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] "M" surnames in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <8E9D711321DF483A999E1F67BB45E613@JudyPC> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Where in TX did you visit? I live in Walnut Springs near Glen Rose and about 80-90 miles South of Dallas Judy Support Save Your Ass Rescue ----- Original Message ----- From: <trinitydee@aol.com> To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 1:47 PM Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] "M" surnames in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery > I live about 1 hour from Sleepy Hollow cemetery ,I have stones on > my Jewell > tree. I traveled on the north west of Texas two weeks ago you are > so right > about country cemeteries. We drove to texas and back to N.J., it only > took three > days each way,what a beautiful ride. > > > In a message dated 8/3/2008 3:59:27 P.M. US Eastern Standard Time, > jmerritt9@hughes.net writes: > > When we were in Westchester two yrs ago I noticed a lot of plce names > being > changed or formalized. Town of Courtlandt or at least some of it being > Courtland Manor. We we come back we never know what town we will be > in. I > am > hoping we can get to NY this Oct. but I am not counting on it for sure > yet > with all these prices. > I think the renaming of thee Sleepy Hollow area kind of makes > sense since > everyone thinks of it as Sleepy Hollow anyway but I thinkit is > sad that > the > road is so close to the graves, but on the other hand here in > Texas where > I > live the cemetaries are often out in the country miles from > everything. > Thanks for mentioning the name change. > > Judy > Judith Anne Seymour Merritt > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <MizScarlettNY@aol.com> > To: <nybrooklyn-l@rootsweb.com>; <nywestch@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 1:12 PM > Subject: [NYWESTCH] "M" surnames in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery > > >> During a recent search of burials at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in >> Tarrytown, >> NY >> [that section of the town was recently renamed Sleepy Hollow, >> NY] , I >> recorded >> a few other "M" surnames. This is all the information that I >> transcribed. >> >> McCANN, Michael, age 89; Burial: 5/8/1862, Lot 237 >> >> McGINTY, James, age 48, cause = asthma; Burial 4/1/1869, Nacplenah >> section, >> Row 3, Grave 23 >> >> MAPES, Susan, age 16; Burial 2/15/1872 >> >> MAPES, William H., age 61; cause= aneurysm; Burial 3/10/1877; >> Home: 161st Street, corner of Locust Avenue, NY NY >> >> #1569 MACK, James, no age, cause = accidental; Burial 3/26/1864, >> Lot 407 >> >> The Sleepy Hollow Cemetery >> 540 North Broadway >> Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591 >> 914.631.0081 >> info@sleepyhollowcemetery.org >> >> Barb >> N of NYC >> >> >> >> ************** >> Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? >> Read reviews on AOL Autos. >> >> > (http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review? > ncid=aolaut00050000000017 >> ) >> *************************************** >> Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ >> *************************************** >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > *************************************** > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > > > > > > **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your > budget? > Read reviews on AOL Autos. > (http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review? > ncid=aolaut00050000000017 > ) > *************************************** > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 00:02:49 EDT From: trinitydee@aol.com Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] "M" surnames in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery To: nywestch@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <c14.43521235.35c92ae9@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" We visit my brother every summer in Lubbock,he always wants to take us to Dallas but haven't made the trip yet. Who are you interested in at Sleepy Hollow? In a message dated 8/4/2008 5:38:55 P.M. US Eastern Standard Time, jmerritt9@hughes.net writes: Where in TX did you visit? I live in Walnut Springs near Glen Rose and about 80-90 miles South of Dallas Judy Support Save Your Ass Rescue ----- Original Message ----- From: <trinitydee@aol.com> To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 1:47 PM Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] "M" surnames in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery > I live about 1 hour from Sleepy Hollow cemetery ,I have stones on > my Jewell > tree. I traveled on the north west of Texas two weeks ago you are > so right > about country cemeteries. We drove to texas and back to N.J., it > only > took three > days each way,what a beautiful ride. > > > In a message dated 8/3/2008 3:59:27 P.M. US Eastern Standard Time, > jmerritt9@hughes.net writes: > > When we were in Westchester two yrs ago I noticed a lot of plce > names > being > changed or formalized. Town of Courtlandt or at least some of it > being > Courtland Manor. We we come back we never know what town we will > be in. I > am > hoping we can get to NY this Oct. but I am not counting on it for > sure > yet > with all these prices. > I think the renaming of thee Sleepy Hollow area kind of makes > sense since > everyone thinks of it as Sleepy Hollow anyway but I thinkit is > sad that > the > road is so close to the graves, but on the other hand here in > Texas where > I > live the cemetaries are often out in the country miles from > everything. > Thanks for mentioning the name change. > > Judy > Judith Anne Seymour Merritt > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <MizScarlettNY@aol.com> > To: <nybrooklyn-l@rootsweb.com>; <nywestch@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 1:12 PM > Subject: [NYWESTCH] "M" surnames in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery > > >> During a recent search of burials at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in >> Tarrytown, >> NY >> [that section of the town was recently renamed Sleepy Hollow, >> NY] , I >> recorded >> a few other "M" surnames. This is all the information that I >> transcribed. >> >> McCANN, Michael, age 89; Burial: 5/8/1862, Lot 237 >> >> McGINTY, James, age 48, cause = asthma; Burial 4/1/1869, Nacplenah >> section, >> Row 3, Grave 23 >> >> MAPES, Susan, age 16; Burial 2/15/1872 >> >> MAPES, William H., age 61; cause= aneurysm; Burial 3/10/1877; >> Home: 161st Street, corner of Locust Avenue, NY NY >> >> #1569 MACK, James, no age, cause = accidental; Burial 3/26/1864, >> Lot 407 >> >> The Sleepy Hollow Cemetery >> 540 North Broadway >> Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591 >> 914.631.0081 >> info@sleepyhollowcemetery.org >> >> Barb >> N of NYC >> >> >> >> ************** >> Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? >> Read reviews on AOL Autos. >> >> > (http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review? ncid=aolaut00050000000017 >> ) >> *************************************** >> Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ >> *************************************** >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > *************************************** > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > > > > > > **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your > budget? > Read reviews on AOL Autos. > (http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review? ncid=aolaut00050000000017 > ) > *************************************** > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message *************************************** Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ *************************************** ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? 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