Sorry for the confusion - I jumped in on your conversation with Mike. My gg grandfather - Samuel Maharay's death was 2/25/1873.  I emailed the Goshen reference librarian today and she is passing my email to the local history librarian. Can you use the local  history room without the local history librarian being there? Hope to be in Newburgh area this summer. Thanks so much. -Anne ----- Original Message ----- From: "juliasgenes" <juliasgenes@yahoo.com> To: nyorange@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, May 5, 2010 1:28:10 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [NYORANGE] The Adams and Paul Families of Highland Mills,  NY What date of death, Anne? Goshen library has the newspaper obits in binders in their Local History room, but the Local Historian isn't there often - will go there, too, some time when the open days align with my schedule, but the obits are filed by date. Did you try the telephone numbers? If David is that old, I wouldn't waste a second calling him! Julia --- On Wed, 5/5/10, bryantan@comcast.net <bryantan@comcast.net> wrote: ...Samuel Maharay's obituary is in the Independent Republican... -Anne          ------------------------------- 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

I don't think so, Anne. When I first went there a few weeks ago, the Local History Room was locked and the reference librarian didn't know anything about the collection within. I had to return when the room was open. The Local History Room woman (Ms Roche, maybe?) is very nice and eager to help. If she's unable to send you a copy of the obit you seek, I'll do so when I next go there, if you'd like. Don't get your hopes up too much, though - those early country obits were frequently more like sparse death notices. Yours, Julia --- On Thu, 5/6/10, bryantan@comcast.net <bryantan@comcast.net> wrote: ...Can you use the local  history room without the local history librarian being there?... Anne