Hello folks, yet again. Just in the planning stages for the transcription of cemeteries in 2005. There are only 2 cemeteries high on my list (Ashland Pleasant Valley and Prattsville Fairlawn) but I am open to suggestions on which cemeteries you folks would like to see completed this year. So, this is your chance to vote. Bear in mind that all known cemeteries for the following Towns are completed and online: 1) Cairo 2) Durham 3) Jewett 4) Greenville 5) Windham (last 2 sections of Windham Cemetery going online soon) Prattsville and Ashland will be complete once I finish the two cemeteries mentioned at the top of this email. So, let's vote - let me know which cemeteries or Towns you'd like me to focus on. I'll create my top ten hit list for this year and post it online. Hopefully I can get to them all. Sylvia

Hi Sylvia, You already have the one I would most like to see completed high on your list, and that is Ashland Pleasant Valley. I think that the right side (facing the cemetery) is the oldest section, as that is where my ggrandfather Lauren Alonzo Matthews is buried, and he was a Civil War Vet. My brother is buried on the left side, so I believe that is the newest section and, as I recall, only the center section has been transcribed. I have searched that cemetery twice when looking for ancestors and relatives, but I may easily have missed someone. (It was hot on both occasions.) I am hoping that John Albert Matthews, the father of Lauren Alonzo, is there, but I could not find him. Thanks for the excellent work that you continue to do! Mignon "There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats." Anon. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sylvia Hasenkopf" <esi@francomm.com> To: <NYGREENE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 4:48 PM Subject: [GREENE COUNTY] Cemeteries for transcription 2005 > Hello folks, yet again. Just in the planning stages for the transcription > of cemeteries in 2005. There are only 2 cemeteries high on my list > (Ashland Pleasant Valley and Prattsville Fairlawn) but I am open to > suggestions on which cemeteries you folks would like to see completed this > year. So, this is your chance to vote. Bear in mind that all known > cemeteries for the following Towns are completed and online: > > 1) Cairo > 2) Durham > 3) Jewett > 4) Greenville > 5) Windham (last 2 sections of Windham Cemetery going online soon) > > Prattsville and Ashland will be complete once I finish the two cemeteries > mentioned at the top of this email. > > So, let's vote - let me know which cemeteries or Towns you'd like me to > focus on. I'll create my top ten hit list for this year and post it > online. Hopefully I can get to them all. > > Sylvia > > > ==== NYGREENE Mailing List ==== > Over 200 Greene County cemeteries fully transcribed - look up your > ancestor! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygreen2 > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > >

Cairo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sylvia Hasenkopf" <esi@francomm.com> To: <NYGREENE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 4:48 PM Subject: [GREENE COUNTY] Cemeteries for transcription 2005 > Hello folks, yet again. Just in the planning stages for the transcription of cemeteries in 2005. There are only 2 cemeteries high on my list (Ashland Pleasant Valley and Prattsville Fairlawn) but I am open to suggestions on which cemeteries you folks would like to see completed this year. So, this is your chance to vote. Bear in mind that all known cemeteries for the following Towns are completed and online: > > 1) Cairo > 2) Durham > 3) Jewett > 4) Greenville > 5) Windham (last 2 sections of Windham Cemetery going online soon) > > Prattsville and Ashland will be complete once I finish the two cemeteries mentioned at the top of this email. > > So, let's vote - let me know which cemeteries or Towns you'd like me to focus on. I'll create my top ten hit list for this year and post it online. Hopefully I can get to them all. > > Sylvia > > > ==== NYGREENE Mailing List ==== > Over 200 Greene County cemeteries fully transcribed - look up your ancestor! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygreen2 > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >

Cairo is fully transcribed. No cemeteries left to do, I'm afraid! Sylvia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joyce Grady" <joyce.grady@verizon.net> To: <NYGREENE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 5:21 PM Subject: Re: [GREENE COUNTY] Cemeteries for transcription 2005 > Cairo > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sylvia Hasenkopf" <esi@francomm.com> > To: <NYGREENE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 4:48 PM > Subject: [GREENE COUNTY] Cemeteries for transcription 2005 > > >> Hello folks, yet again. Just in the planning stages for the transcription > of cemeteries in 2005. There are only 2 cemeteries high on my list > (Ashland > Pleasant Valley and Prattsville Fairlawn) but I am open to suggestions on > which cemeteries you folks would like to see completed this year. So, this > is your chance to vote. Bear in mind that all known cemeteries for the > following Towns are completed and online: >> >> 1) Cairo >> 2) Durham >> 3) Jewett >> 4) Greenville >> 5) Windham (last 2 sections of Windham Cemetery going online soon) >> >> Prattsville and Ashland will be complete once I finish the two cemeteries > mentioned at the top of this email. >> >> So, let's vote - let me know which cemeteries or Towns you'd like me to > focus on. I'll create my top ten hit list for this year and post it > online. > Hopefully I can get to them all. >> >> Sylvia >> >> >> ==== NYGREENE Mailing List ==== >> Over 200 Greene County cemeteries fully transcribed - look up your > ancestor! >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygreen2 >> >> ============================== >> Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >> areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >> Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >> > > > ==== NYGREENE Mailing List ==== > Your resource site for Greene County Cemeteries, Biographies, Censuses, > Wills and so much more! Check us out! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygreen2 > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >

My vote will be for the Town of New Baltimore cemeteries. I realize you mentioned one is in process at Medway. Is this the cemetery by the church? I know there is another older one down the road from that cemetery. Thanks for all your enthusiasm and excellent work. Lucky you, missing those snowstorms and being on a deserving vacation. I am in Wisconsin so I know what they have been like. Thank goodness we are on the down hill side of winter at this point. Sandie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sylvia Hasenkopf" <esi@francomm.com> To: <NYGREENE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 3:48 PM Subject: [GREENE COUNTY] Cemeteries for transcription 2005 > Hello folks, yet again. Just in the planning stages for the transcription > of cemeteries in 2005. There are only 2 cemeteries high on my list > (Ashland Pleasant Valley and Prattsville Fairlawn) but I am open to > suggestions on which cemeteries you folks would like to see completed this > year. So, this is your chance to vote. Bear in mind that all known > cemeteries for the following Towns are completed and online: > > 1) Cairo > 2) Durham > 3) Jewett > 4) Greenville > 5) Windham (last 2 sections of Windham Cemetery going online soon) > > Prattsville and Ashland will be complete once I finish the two cemeteries > mentioned at the top of this email. > > So, let's vote - let me know which cemeteries or Towns you'd like me to > focus on. I'll create my top ten hit list for this year and post it > online. Hopefully I can get to them all. > > Sylvia > > > ==== NYGREENE Mailing List ==== > Over 200 Greene County cemeteries fully transcribed - look up your > ancestor! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygreen2 > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >

>My vote will be for the Town of New Baltimore cemeteries. Two for New Baltimore. Yeaay!! It's a landslide. Or a groundswell. Or a molehill. An ant hill? Picture it in your mind's eye. Chestnut Lawn. Can't you just see it? Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Jack Frost nipping at your toes... Lawn. A vast expanse of grass. Interrupted only by gravestones. Chestnut Lawn. A vast expanse of lawn interrupted only by gravestones... and chestnuts... no need to stop for lunch... just roast some chestnuts... I'm a what? How dare you! Slowly losing it, Jim

Yes, New Baltimore is my last holdout for transcriptions - it is the Town that is the farthest away from me, so it has been the last to receive my attention. Jim, thought you'd like to know that there is a very old cemetery in Coxsackie that I'd like to do this year as well, on Peat Beds Rd. - the Earlton Community Cemetery. Except for a few very small cemteteries and the Catholic Cemetery of St. Mary's just outside the village of Coxsackie that would finish up the Town of Coxsackie as well. In terms of Athens - there are 7 small family cemeteries I am trying to locate. These are toughies as they are up in the woods for the most part and usually people don't even know they are there. I;lll likely continue to try to find these. I know where one is now. That would complete Athens as well. Chestnut Lawn?? Jim that's a biggie and right at the Albany border. Perhaps in the fall. I always leave a biggie for my last project. Sylvia ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Brady" <brady.j@att.net> To: <NYGREENE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 11:25 PM Subject: RE: [GREENE COUNTY] Cemeteries for transcription 2005 > >My vote will be for the Town of New Baltimore cemeteries. > > Two for New Baltimore. Yeaay!! It's a landslide. > > Or a groundswell. > > Or a molehill. > > An ant hill? > > Picture it in your mind's eye. Chestnut Lawn. Can't you just see it? > Chestnuts roasting on an open fire > Jack Frost nipping at your toes... > > Lawn. A vast expanse of grass. Interrupted only by gravestones. > > Chestnut Lawn. A vast expanse of lawn interrupted only by gravestones... > and chestnuts... > no need to stop for lunch... > just roast some chestnuts... > > I'm a what? How dare you! > > Slowly losing it, > Jim > > > ==== NYGREENE Mailing List ==== > Moving in and Moving on - Greene County's Migrations Database - add your > families now and make the connection! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygreen2 > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx >

Hi Sylvia, I'll defer to your excellent judgement. Like I have a choice, anyway. Thanks for the update on Coxsackie and Athens. I just grabbed my JIMAPCO Greene County map and noticed that it has a cemetery marker for the Peats Bed Rd. cemetery you mentioned. I didn't notice that one when I was last up there. So didn't visit. That would be interesting to see. I'm curious, how do you know that there are cemeteries in Athens that still need to be found? Is there an earlier transcript for them? Is that in the DAR volume of Greene County cemeteries or from the Vedder Library? Beer's History of Greene County? On New Baltimore's Chestnut Lawn Cemetery, yeah, that's a relatively big one. The smaller, older section might be more manageable and more at risk at present than the newer section across the street. A good place to start? And maybe the rest at a later date? Part of the problem for me, and I suspect others, is that I don't always know what I need, or what's available, until someone like you shows me. For instance, the Athens Trinity Episcopal burials are often cryptic. M(r). Clow funeral Feb. 22, 1809. Or funeral July 13, 1824, Mrs. Clow, grandmother of Jacob Clow. Could the Reverend have been, um, a little more specific? And people think we genealogists are obsessive/compulsives? Our ancients seem to be playing mindgames with us. Anyway, I keep finding such tidbits, and the like, without then finding the expected gravestones. And wonder why. Which leads one to hope/believe that there is an overlooked cemetery or family plot somewhere with gravestones. Of course they may have buried without markers, or with uninscribed fieldstones, in a family plot now long forgotten. Oh well. Then again, I remember one plot at Albany Rural Cemetery that had a gravestone with only two names on it. The registrar's records were in excellent shape and I discovered from the burial records that there were actually 10 people interred in a rather large plot. Is there some way, on your website transcripts, to indicate if such burial records are still available for the cemetery and whether or not they have been consulted to create your transcript? Maybe a rating system? This cemetery transcript is copied from such and such a transcript done in such and such a year, but was not verified by a recent survey. This one is based on an older transcript and was personally walked and verified with differnces noted. (Those noted differences are often very useful, particularly when it concerns eroded numerals that are open to interpretation.) This one is the first known full survey. This one includes additional information culled from burial records that wasn't found in the site survey. I'm curious what other listers think. My point being, that if a competent researcher, like Sylvia, tells me clearly that something I want just doesn't exist, then I'll accept that and move on to another way of trying to prove something out. Thanks for listening, Jim -----Original Message----- From: Sylvia Hasenkopf [mailto:esi@francomm.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 8:42 AM To: NYGREENE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GREENE COUNTY] Cemeteries for transcription 2005 Yes, New Baltimore is my last holdout for transcriptions - it is the Town that is the farthest away from me, so it has been the last to receive my attention. Jim, thought you'd like to know that there is a very old cemetery in Coxsackie that I'd like to do this year as well, on Peat Beds Rd. - the Earlton Community Cemetery. Except for a few very small cemteteries and the Catholic Cemetery of St. Mary's just outside the village of Coxsackie that would finish up the Town of Coxsackie as well. In terms of Athens - there are 7 small family cemeteries I am trying to locate. These are toughies as they are up in the woods for the most part and usually people don't even know they are there. I;lll likely continue to try to find these. I know where one is now. That would complete Athens as well. Chestnut Lawn?? Jim that's a biggie and right at the Albany border. Perhaps in the fall. I always leave a biggie for my last project. Sylvia ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Brady" <brady.j@att.net> To: <NYGREENE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 11:25 PM Subject: RE: [GREENE COUNTY] Cemeteries for transcription 2005 > >My vote will be for the Town of New Baltimore cemeteries. > > Two for New Baltimore. Yeaay!! It's a landslide. > > Or a groundswell. > > Or a molehill. > > An ant hill? > > Picture it in your mind's eye. Chestnut Lawn. Can't you just see it? > Chestnuts roasting on an open fire > Jack Frost nipping at your toes... > > Lawn. A vast expanse of grass. Interrupted only by gravestones. > > Chestnut Lawn. A vast expanse of lawn interrupted only by gravestones... > and chestnuts... > no need to stop for lunch... > just roast some chestnuts... > > I'm a what? How dare you! > > Slowly losing it, > Jim > > > ==== NYGREENE Mailing List ==== > Moving in and Moving on - Greene County's Migrations Database - add your > families now and make the connection! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygreen2 > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > ==== NYGREENE Mailing List ==== Your on-line source for Greene County history and genealogy. Stop on by and find your lost link! http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygreen2 ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. 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Hey ? Whatever sells? RANewman ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Brady" <brady.j@att.net> To: <NYGREENE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 10:25 PM Subject: RE: [GREENE COUNTY] Cemeteries for transcription 2005 > >My vote will be for the Town of New Baltimore cemeteries. > > Two for New Baltimore. Yeaay!! It's a landslide. > > Or a groundswell. > > Or a molehill. > > An ant hill? > > Picture it in your mind's eye. Chestnut Lawn. Can't you just see it? > Chestnuts roasting on an open fire > Jack Frost nipping at your toes... > > Lawn. A vast expanse of grass. Interrupted only by gravestones. > > Chestnut Lawn. A vast expanse of lawn interrupted only by gravestones... > and chestnuts... > no need to stop for lunch... > just roast some chestnuts... > > I'm a what? How dare you! > > Slowly losing it, > Jim > > > ==== NYGREENE Mailing List ==== > Moving in and Moving on - Greene County's Migrations Database - add your > families now and make the connection! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygreen2 > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > >