In my previous email, I asked for info on John Rickard from the 1855 census, I like to explain what I am looking for. John Rickert, 7/8/1773 to 8/5/1855, was my great, great, great grandfather and also a brick wall as far as research goes. Info on his origins has been very limited and somewhere along the way, I picked up something that led me to believe he was born in Herkimer County but perhaps I was wrong and the 1855 census gave another ancestor's location of birth as Washington County so I am hoping to do the same with John. Thanks for any help. Karl karlme@earthlink.net

Does anyone have the 1855 NY census for Madison County? If so, would you look up John Rickard for me? If you know where I can find a copy, that would be appreciated also. Thanks loads. Karl karlme@earthlink.net

This is in todays Suburban "Cortland-Ithaca" Shopper Community News CAN YOU HELP? The Directors of Willow Glen Cemetery Association are interested in developing a mailing list for the cemetery. We need your help. If you have relatives buried in the cemetery, please write to the address below. You can use email also. Tell us who you are, who is related to you and buried in the cemetery, and what your relationship is. This will allow us to update our email list for cemetery news letters. The information we would like is listed below as well as the contact information for the cemetery. If you are willing to help with this project, state that also. We pledge to keep your information private. Your help is greatly appreciated. PLEASE PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION: i. Your name ii. Your mailing address iii. If you have an email address, give us that as well iv. Names of the people you are related to in the cemetery v. How you are related IE: John Doe is my grandfather PLEASE WRITE TO: WILLOW GLEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION PO Box 299 Dryden, NY 13053-0299 OR EMAIL TO: info@willowglencemetery.org Tim Stowell tstowell@chattanooga.net Chattanooga, TN

My computer crashed a couple weeks ago, so if anyone is trying to get ahold of me, I am sorry. I plan on purchasing a new one soon instead of repairing again! I will read all of my mail as soon as I get hooked up. Best Always, Carol Bain cbain44@twcny.rr.com

Looking for any connection or leads for this Brundage family. Name often spelled Brudage, Brundrage, Brundrige ect. 1880 census living with George and Emily Cook in Stockbridge Jerry Brudage age 19 Sarah Ann Brudage age 18 John Brudage age 15 William Brudage age 13 all four states parents born Canada for some reason all except Jerry say born Canada for the kids 1900 Sarah Ann Brundage Godfrey married with husband and has 5/6 children including my grandmother. Census shows she came to US from Canada in 1868. She dies in Oriskany Falls in 1903. Death certificate lists her father as John Brundage (sp unclear). The children are born in Stockbridge and Augusta. They moved into Oriskany Falls as Sarah was sick. Sarah is buried in Stockbridge Cemetery in Munnsville with her husband and son Samuel who died at 2 yrs old. 1900 shows John married to Cora Perkins. Would love to hear from anyone who knows about this line. Children Arthur, daughter (name not clear), Grace, Edwin, Ida, Hazel, and Frank. 1920 and 1930 census has Arthur married to Flora Wuyliez living in Lenox with children Retha, Richard, and Florence. 1900 shows William married to Myrtle living in Eaton. She dies in 1907 leaving a son Floyd (b 1902) behind. Myrtle is daughter of an Edgar Lewis. 1910 Floyd Brundage lives with the Applefords in Eaton as a boarder. I do know that later on Floyd marries a Mary Agnes Coffee from New Hartford. In 1926 they live in Pine Woods. 1920 William boarder in Eaton. Jerry Brundage buried in Stockbridge Cemetery in Munnsville by himself. He died in 1922. John Brundage with wife Cora and daughter Grace Gibbs with husband James Gibbs buried in Stockbridge Cemetery in Munnsville as well. Would love to know more about my great grandmothers family. Pam

For those who knew Mike- A news item in the Oneida Dispatch in August 1955: " Mike Hollingsworth and Mary Ponto were crowned King and Queen of Sconondoa Park yesterday." This was researched and noted in David Alvord's weekly column in the Oneida dispatch,"Remember When". David is Oneida City Historian. Mike grew up in the Sconondoa St. area of Oneida. Chas

Surnames: Baldwin, Foote, Hammond, Hardy, Poole, Prince, Richardson, Stephenson, Wilford Regions: Hamilton, Madison Co., NY - Iowa Co., WI Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, and of Many of the Early Settled Families. Illustrated. Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co., 1901, Page 344 Can view at the following url. The pages are really faded. I'm surprised (but pleased) that interlibrary loan sent it. http://darcisplace.com/darci/blackstone-john.htm Darci

In a message dated 8/22/2005 9:19:34 AM Eastern Standard Time, MuskratBay@aol.com writes: > Finally, I know the Godfrey Memorial Library, 134 Newfield Street, > Middletown, CT 06457-2534, (860) 346-4375, Fax (860) 347-9874, website > _www.godfrey.org_ (http://www.godfrey.org) , email _library@godfrey.org_ > (mailto:library@godfrey.org) , takes Family Bibles in for donations. They > also have a deal that > for a $35 a year membership as a Godfrey Scholar, you can access their > electronic databases from home. Databases include the Heritage Quest Online > Census > Collection &NewspaperArchive Elite (which include the Syracuse Post > Standard > Digital Archives as part of the over 400 US newspapers and a few foreign > countries newspapers in their collection... not every issue or every year > is > included, but it sure helps me find a lot of obits I am looking for without > paying > for gas, parking or copies). > > Hope this helps! I'm sure each location would appreciate a copy of the > important pages from that bible even if the Bible gets donated to a member > of the > VanBuskirk &Damon Families. > > Thanks > > Anne Ruggeri > That is such an important point you have brought up. When any of us finds a document that contains family information, ours or anyone else's, it is useful to consider how many ways it can be both shared and preserved. Some of these repositories you mention have wonderful collections that would not be possible if people did not plan for the preservation of information for all researchers. Just think if each subscriber to this list were to preserve one document for public research either digitally or physically, what a huge boost to retrievable information would be created. Thanks for that great list of repositories. Carol

Hi, Anyone out there know the address of the Glenside Cemetery Association? I need to write them looking for the grave of my GG grandmother Louis L Crandall Clarke. I have found her husband, Franklin G Clarke ( abt 1831 - 1889) in the cemetery but cannot find her. Thank-you for any help you can give. Sue harold d and susan corbin suedoncorbin@earthlink.net EarthLink Revolves Around You.

I don't know if the Onondaga County Public Library, Local History & Genealogy Department, 5th floor of the Central Library, The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse, NY 13202, (315) 435-1900, website _http://www.ocpl.lib.ny.us/_ (http://www.ocpl.lib.ny.us/) keeps a collection of Family Bibles or not. This would be one of the first places I would suggest to inquire about donating the Bible, since it contains one of the largest collections in the area for Genealogical Research.. The next location I suggest would be the Tully Historical Society, PO Box 583, Tully, NY 13159, (315) 696-5973, (315) 696-4681, Fax (315) 696-4681, website _www.tullyareahistorical.com_ (http://www.tullyareahistorical.com) , email _eleanor@dreamscape.com_ (mailto:eleanor@dreamscape.com) . They have a number of individuals who are volunteering to transcribe and catalog information about the Tully area and its people. The Onondaga Historical Association, 321 Montgomery Street, 5th floor, Syracuse, NY 13202, (315) 428-1862, (315) 471-2133, website _http://www.cnyhistory.org/_ (http://www.cnyhistory.org/) , is another possible location to donate it, but their hours are very limited and a $$ fee is charged for admission to look at anything. Finally, I know the Godfrey Memorial Library, 134 Newfield Street, Middletown, CT 06457-2534, (860) 346-4375, Fax (860) 347-9874, website _www.godfrey.org_ (http://www.godfrey.org) , email _library@godfrey.org_ (mailto:library@godfrey.org) , takes Family Bibles in for donations. They also have a deal that for a $35 a year membership as a Godfrey Scholar, you can access their electronic databases from home. Databases include the Heritage Quest Online Census Collection & NewspaperArchive Elite (which include the Syracuse Post Standard Digital Archives as part of the over 400 US newspapers and a few foreign countries newspapers in their collection... not every issue or every year is included, but it sure helps me find a lot of obits I am looking for without paying for gas, parking or copies). Hope this helps! I'm sure each location would appreciate a copy of the important pages from that bible even if the Bible gets donated to a member of the VanBuskirk & Damon Families. Thanks Anne Ruggeri Brewerton, NY

In a message dated 8/21/2005 9:58:29 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, Bobevans01@aol.com writes: got some info that may be of use to you. Frank Van Buskirk is associated with Tully, Onondaga County (Syracuse), New York, and is buried in the Tully Cemetery. For a brief time he moved from Tully to Binghamton, Broome, NY When he moved back to Tully, he left a son Earnest Perhaps you could try contacting this John Van Buskirk from this 1999 query, there is a link to his home page listed. Since he lives in Tully he may know of Frank's descendants _http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?tully::vanbuskirk::356.htm l_ (http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?tully::vanbuskirk::356.html) Thank You Joanne

Genealogy Libraries- are a good place - they or some of them have family histories that get donated all the time- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Garrett" <skye523@webtv.net> To: <NYMADISO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 5:54 AM Subject: [NYMADISO] Family Bible > I stopped at a yard sale and found an old family Bible whichi purchased for 50 cents. I would like to see it returned to the family members. It was given by Rev. & Mrs. John V Darrow and family on the marraige of Frank VanBuskirk to Emma Damon at Cardif on the 26th Nov 1873. Later given to Robert by his Mother. > Witnesses were Frank Park, Ella Pennock, W.H Bunnell, M.E. Partor(? writing difficult but first 4 letters are certian) > The VanBuskirk children listed are John, Ella, Kathryn, Judd, Ida, Ernest, Robert and Donald. > Marraiges are Ella to Charles Vandenburg, Kathryn to Vern Youngs, Judd to Isadell Avery, Ernest to Leona Adams, Robert to Nella Hibbard, Donald to Addie Morse. > There are several deaths as well. > It is looking for a home. If no family can be found that are interested, what would anyone suggest be done with Bibles that are "found and rescued"? > Sharon > > > > > ==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== > To Unsubscribe from this list - send email to - > nymadiso-L-request@rootsweb.com with the single word - unsubscribe in the body of the email. If you are subscribed in Digest mode use the same address but change the -L- to -D-. > >

You may or may not find a direct descendant for your VanBuskirk-Damon Bible, but on the other hand, you could come up with more than one. In the meantime, you can try a couple of things that may make the most of the information found in it. for instance, you might consider scanning or taking digital photos of all the significant pages and keeping them on your computer for an extended period of time until the related persons emerge. Those would be the title page describing the age of the bible with the version, date and edition, the signatures of the donors, and the pages with the various dates and family information. If you have several responses over time you can still share the full information with them even though you may have placed the actual bible with a genealogical or historical society, or an individual. I once purchased an old photo at an antiques fair because it had a name and place on it, and after posting the information to a couple of surname and location newslists, several people responded, so I was able to send the scanned images to all of them in addition to sending the photo to one of them. So it paid off for a number of people, not just one. Carol Boggs

Hi Sharon, I got some info that may be of use to you. Frank Van Buskirk is associated with Tully, Onondaga County (Syracuse), New York, and is buried in the Tully Cemetery. For a brief time he moved from Tully to Binghamton, Broome, NY When he moved back to Tully, he left a son Earnest in Binghamton. Laurence Van Buskirk, b 1919 in Binghamton and died in 1989 (location unknown) was probably a grandson of Earnest. Robert went back to Tully with his father. He appears on the 1920 census with wife Nella and a son Elbert. In the brief search I made, I could find no info on Robert, Nella, and Elbert. After 1920, Frank apparently had no Van Buskirk descendants in Tully, however he did have a younger brother, Charles. Charles had a granddaughter, Jeanne, who was born in Tully in 1919. I do not know who she married, where she moved to, or if she is yet dead. I would recommend contacting the Onondaga County genealogy or historical society. They may help you find a living descendant, or accept and preserve the bible. If that does not work out, I would love to have the bible, which I would preserve. I am a sixth cousin, several times removed from Frank. Bob Evans Allen, Texas

Every since my mother, out of hatred of my father, destroyed my LANCE family bible keep hoping one day to find another copy. Maybe someday. In the meantime God Bless you for rescuing someone's family treasure. Laurence Lance Seattle

If the family cannot be found by posting to different Rootsweb surname mailing lists, perhaps you might donate it to the genealogy society closest to where these people lived and died. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Garrett" <skye523@webtv.net> To: <NYMADISO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 6:54 AM Subject: [NYMADISO] Family Bible > I stopped at a yard sale and found an old family Bible whichi purchased for 50 cents. I would like to see it returned to the family members. It was given by Rev. & Mrs. John V Darrow and family on the marraige of Frank VanBuskirk to Emma Damon at Cardif on the 26th Nov 1873. Later given to Robert by his Mother. > Witnesses were Frank Park, Ella Pennock, W.H Bunnell, M.E. Partor(? writing difficult but first 4 letters are certian) > The VanBuskirk children listed are John, Ella, Kathryn, Judd, Ida, Ernest, Robert and Donald. > Marraiges are Ella to Charles Vandenburg, Kathryn to Vern Youngs, Judd to Isadell Avery, Ernest to Leona Adams, Robert to Nella Hibbard, Donald to Addie Morse. > There are several deaths as well. > It is looking for a home. If no family can be found that are interested, what would anyone suggest be done with Bibles that are "found and rescued"? > Sharon > > > > > ==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== > To Unsubscribe from this list - send email to - > nymadiso-L-request@rootsweb.com with the single word - unsubscribe in the body of the email. If you are subscribed in Digest mode use the same address but change the -L- to -D-. > > >

I stopped at a yard sale and found an old family Bible whichi purchased for 50 cents. I would like to see it returned to the family members. It was given by Rev. & Mrs. John V Darrow and family on the marraige of Frank VanBuskirk to Emma Damon at Cardif on the 26th Nov 1873. Later given to Robert by his Mother. Witnesses were Frank Park, Ella Pennock, W.H Bunnell, M.E. Partor(? writing difficult but first 4 letters are certian) The VanBuskirk children listed are John, Ella, Kathryn, Judd, Ida, Ernest, Robert and Donald. Marraiges are Ella to Charles Vandenburg, Kathryn to Vern Youngs, Judd to Isadell Avery, Ernest to Leona Adams, Robert to Nella Hibbard, Donald to Addie Morse. There are several deaths as well. It is looking for a home. If no family can be found that are interested, what would anyone suggest be done with Bibles that are "found and rescued"? Sharon

Have you tried sending a note on the Van Buskirk list? I am descended from Van Buskirks (all of them are related as they are descended from Laurens Andressen Van Buskirk who invented and assumed the surname in New Amsterdam in 1654), but not from Frank. However I have the definitive Van Buskirk book on fiche at my local LDS FHC. I will see if Frank is listed there, with some more descendants. If all else fails, and you do not want to keep the Bible, I would gladly take it to preserve Van Buskirk history. Bob Evans

Since my last report of 8/5/05: Chenango County: 8 new cemeteries in the Town of Greene - http://www.rootsweb.com/~nychenan/greene.htm ============================================================================ Cortland County: Working on broken links. Changing out email addresses from old to new ones for James Knapp and Vicki Titus to James' new address and/or mine. Reworking some pages as well. I believe I've just about finished this process. Will now work on reorganizing the web site to hopefully make it easier to navigate. 2 new cemeteries in the Town of Willett - http://www.rootsweb.com/~nycortla/willett.htm Begining of the index of Grip's of Cortland - A and B only at the present time http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/cortland/books/gripcort.htm Continuing work oo Smith's 1885 history, Congregational Church of Homer and new items in the works. ============================================================================ Madison County: Other than to continue cleaning up Dan's sites, nothing to report. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This past week and the week to come as school starts a new year will keep me away from my computer as we go to a 75 hour work week. I'll work to squeeze in what I can, trying to tie up some loose ends and send more material to the transcribers - whom I've mostly caught up with - except for the items that have prescription bottle print on them and take a long time to proof. As to what else I spend my time doing - I played with a new program this past week to enable the creation of thumbnails (series of small pictures one can choose from to then see the larger image) - the results which are here: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/county/chatham/images/ads.htm - for Savannah, GA. Tim

The Madison County Historical Society has a listing of names of those buried there. I believe it was compiled by the DAR in the early 1920s. You may want to write to them and request a copy of it. I know they will do that for a reasonable charge. Here's their address and phone number: 435 Main Street Oneida, NY 13421 315-363-4136 Howard Locke On 7/24/05, Beth Comstock <bethsroots@verizon.net> wrote: > > Does someone have a listing online of the gravesites in Fyler Cemetery? I > was hoping for photos and info. from headstones? > > James Beeman > Caroline (Case) Beeman > > I know there are others too, but would like to look through the list if > there is one. > > Thanks, > Beth > > > ==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== > To post to this list - send email from the address you subsribed to the > list with to this address - NYMadiso-L@rootsweb.com > >