Mailing address for purchase, please. Is it possible to pay via credit card? Phoebe in CA In a message dated 2/7/2010 1:40:58 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, dhb48@frontiernet.net writes: There are two books expected back from the printer any day now -- I just wrote a news release to be published in the OCGS May Quarterly but i suppose I can put it here also since some Orange County researchers may not be members of the Society. These two books will be available very soon in the research room and of course be availavble for sale Orange County Jury Lists Volume One 1798 -1825 by Kenneth A. Dunning is worthy of being called a "Magnus Opus" [or "Great Work"]. Long buried in the basement of the 1841 Court house in a closet under the rear stairwell was an old box of folded up ancient papers. I decided to investigate and what a surprise to discover hundreds of old Jury Lists from 1798 until about 1905 all crunched into this old box. After bring the new discovery to our next meeting, about 7 volunteers met in the basement around a table and sorted out this pile of fragile old papers by year and put them in file folders. I took the first few years home and put them into a manageable database - Ken Dunning became quite interested and took over the project and so far has spent many hours deciphering the old hand writings and organizing the data. Volume One contains over 13,000 entries in alphabetical order with a cross reference to the original document it was taken from of eligible Jurors, Grand Jurors, constables, disqualified Jurors, names of Town Officials and on occasion a notice of death of a Juror. In most cases the occupation of the person is also given. It almost serves as a census of Freeholders for the years in between the official census reports. Two types of lists were found for each year: Official individual town lists of eligible freeholders and Official county lists of the panels drawn for each of the Quarterly Session Courts and the Circuit Courts - some held in Goshen and others held in Newburgh. The postpaid price for this new volume is $22.00. Volume Two starting with 1826 is already underway and could be ready as early as next year. Warwick Historical Papers Volume Three by Mr. Terry Hann will take its readers back into the streets and homes of the Town of Warwick through the endless transcriptions of older Warwick area newspapers. This I can personally attest to as I became glued to the text as I indexed every page. Researchers and other readers will experience the sensation of living there at the time - many articles are historical in nature and others simply tell the town's stories as they happened. Mr. Hann still continues to tirelessly cull through the hard to read microfilms of these newspapers for future volumes of these much forgotten about times in the former resident's lives - doing so much more than giving them honorable mention as is usually done with a line or two in a printed genealogy or local history. Volumes One and Two, a combined book to which I added an every name index is still available from the OCGS. It contains 3 former booklets of the Warwick Historical Society packed full of historical and genealogical information. Mr. Hann's continuing work make great additions to that series that has been dormant for so many years. The postpaid price for Warwick Historical Papers Volume Three is $20.00. Volume Four is in the indexing stage and will be available soon. I understand that Volume Five is in the works but no time line has been set. Dan Burrows Research Room Chairperson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara DiMunno" <bdimunno@frontiernet.net> To: <nyorange@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 3:35 PM Subject: [NYORANGE] New Orange County books >I heard there is going to be some new material published for Orange County >very soon. Does anybody have details? > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYORANGE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2673 - Release Date: 02/07/10 02:22:00 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYORANGE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message