Since my update of 6/5 - For this update - ====================== Cortland County - Deaths from the Cortland Democrat for 1884 http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/cortland/vitals/d1884.htm Deaths from the Cortland Democrat for 1885 http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/cortland/vitals/d1885.htm The obits of this time frame are so much more descriptive than our short and sweet ones of today. Reading many of these, you almost can consider you knew the person. July 3rd death of a GALUSHA made me wonder if this family was connected with the western Chenango family whose daughter was drowned by a man in upstate New York - Moose Lake, was I believe its name. August 7th death of child Freddie Brooks has an interesting end: "... thus does hope exalt the Genie of the past into the Genie of the future. Memory and hope! How graciously do they keep our dead for us! " September 11th - In Memoriam - Calvin L. Hatheway - what more fitting tribute could a man have? -- "May his virtues long remain in the memories of men." and many more ---------------------------- Search engine re-indexed for Cortland County new queries entered from - 5/24 - 6/18: Stoddart, Murphy, Leach, Thomas, Robbins, Truxton, Davis, Moore, Gray, Pickett, Hotchkins and Howe surnames. ======================================================== Chenango County - Search engine re-indexed for Chenango County new queries entered from - 4/27- 6/17: Lord, Wheeler, Brown, Heering, Haggerty, Riordan, Parker, Bates, Pettis, Cleveland, Carney, Hunt, Reed, Harrington, Gray, Beadle, Smith, Lee, Slauanberg, Bassett, Davern, Feehan, Ryan, Toohey and Fanning surnames. ======================================================== Madison County - Search engine re-indexed for Madison County minus Mike Hollingsworth's portion of the site which has a separate search feature. 1899 history update for a few biographical entries - index http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/madison1/books/99bioidx.htm#ref new queries entered from - 4/26 - 6/19: Irons, Calkins, Phillips, Dunham, Bebee, Thomas, Wentworth, Burton, Gavitt, Murphy, Menzie, Wellington, Walrath, Gillespie / Glasype, Aldrich / Aldridge, Carter, Gleason, Minor, Calhoun, Phelps, Sholes, Drake, Hitchcock, Williams, Maxon / Maxson, Ward, Brown and Brown. This is also a test to make sure mail is getting to all three lists since some have not had activity in a few days. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Working on broken links, biographies. More to come, Tim