Jim, thanks for the great vote of support! But, I am not infallible. New material pops up from time to time, many of it in provate hands. I always keep my fingers crossed. Yes, the old section of Chestnut Lawn may well be possible - just for you Jim!! :-) Just so everyone knows, if I say transcribed by Sylvia Hasenkopf in June 2004 or whatevber date, that means I walked that cemetery myself and transcribed each stone. If I post a transcription obtained from the DAR or an older transcription from somewhere else, then I will say that is so. And yes, that means I've transcribed over 200 cemeteries myself, here in Greene Co. Sylvia ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Brady" <brady.j@att.net> To: <NYGREENE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: RE: [GREENE COUNTY] Cemeteries for transcription 2005 > 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. 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