Carol, This is remarkable and we all thank you. It is a service to the local community, to genealogists and to researchers everywhere. It must be especially challenging in this economy when funding is so limited. Once again Thank you. Jenny ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol VanBuren" <ty@warwick.net> To: <nygreene@rootsweb.com> Cc: <nyorange@rootsweb.com>; <nysulliv@rootsweb.com>; <njsussex@rootsweb.com>; <nyulster@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 11:38 PM Subject: [NYORANGE] History > While on I am on the Historic band wagon: > > In the 1980's - our Bicentennial Commission did a postcard booklet, an old > picture booklet, and a hard cover Bicentennial History (1988). These were > done to document our history and as fund raisers. > > In 2003-2005 my husband and I photographed all of the barns that were > left. > SInce then we have lost at least 2 per year. > > Our Curator has been on a mission of gathering the aerial photographs > taken > during the 1960's and 1970's. > >>From 2005-2009 we published calendars of the barns and aerial photographs >>as > fund raisers. We hope to do more when the money is available. > > We also photographed all our historic markers. An assistant photographed > all the NYS listed historic architecture and secured a copy from the > inventory form (so we have a comparison). We hope to publish these also > at > some point. > > Last week I attended a local historic meeting and the presentation was a > DVD > from a small town in Delaware County NY. The seniors had interviewed four > operating dairy farms. We hope to do that soon too as we only have four > left in our Town. > > We also have done a few oral history round tables. > > We have a presentation at least once a year and invite the community and > all > the Historians in the County. > > We host our local fourth graders since 1983 for the morning the first week > of June and have at least 19 stations with lots of hands on for the > children. > > We do a newsletter. We were doing 3 per year, but cut back to 1 this year > due to cost. It is mailed to entire Town, plus historians in County. > > We have a free website which is under reconstruction. > > I have taken over 4,000 photographs in the past 6 years. Part of this is > the Cultural Resources Management Law. With permission we take pictures > of > the proposed subdivision. All the paperwork goes into a binder. > > When I do a house/property history, a copy goes to our Museum and a copy > to > the person who made the request. > > In school we were taught that the Indians jumped from Plymouth Rock to the > West. There were no slaves here, just in the South. We didn't have > mastodon's or dinasours. Guess what? We had all of the above. > > We have been searching all our deeds from 1703 to 1850. At present up to > 1845 done. These are all copied, filed and abstracted into spread sheets > that can be searched. My hope is to do a map from the 1798 Assessment as > our earliest map is 1850. > > An assistant transcribed our first first Town minute book from 1788-1841. > > Have indexed most of the vital records. > > The list is extensive. We also have 4 buildings of displays. All of this > started in 1970's with our first Historian. > > Carol Van Buren > > ------------------------------- > 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

You are welcome -----Original Message----- From: nyorange-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nyorange-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jenny Inskeep Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 7:56 AM To: nyorange@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NYORANGE] History Carol, This is remarkable and we all thank you. It is a service to the local community, to genealogists and to researchers everywhere. It must be especially challenging in this economy when funding is so limited. Once again Thank you. Jenny ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol VanBuren" <ty@warwick.net> To: <nygreene@rootsweb.com> Cc: <nyorange@rootsweb.com>; <nysulliv@rootsweb.com>; <njsussex@rootsweb.com>; <nyulster@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 11:38 PM Subject: [NYORANGE] History > While on I am on the Historic band wagon: > > In the 1980's - our Bicentennial Commission did a postcard booklet, an > old picture booklet, and a hard cover Bicentennial History (1988). > These were done to document our history and as fund raisers. > > In 2003-2005 my husband and I photographed all of the barns that were > left. > SInce then we have lost at least 2 per year. > > Our Curator has been on a mission of gathering the aerial photographs > taken during the 1960's and 1970's. > >>From 2005-2009 we published calendars of the barns and aerial >>photographs as > fund raisers. We hope to do more when the money is available. > > We also photographed all our historic markers. An assistant > photographed all the NYS listed historic architecture and secured a > copy from the inventory form (so we have a comparison). We hope to > publish these also at some point. > > Last week I attended a local historic meeting and the presentation was > a DVD from a small town in Delaware County NY. The seniors had > interviewed four operating dairy farms. We hope to do that soon too > as we only have four left in our Town. > > We also have done a few oral history round tables. > > We have a presentation at least once a year and invite the community > and all the Historians in the County. > > We host our local fourth graders since 1983 for the morning the first > week of June and have at least 19 stations with lots of hands on for > the children. > > We do a newsletter. We were doing 3 per year, but cut back to 1 this > year due to cost. It is mailed to entire Town, plus historians in County. > > We have a free website which is under reconstruction. > > I have taken over 4,000 photographs in the past 6 years. Part of this > is the Cultural Resources Management Law. With permission we take > pictures of the proposed subdivision. All the paperwork goes into a > binder. > > When I do a house/property history, a copy goes to our Museum and a > copy to the person who made the request. > > In school we were taught that the Indians jumped from Plymouth Rock to > the West. There were no slaves here, just in the South. We didn't > have mastodon's or dinasours. Guess what? We had all of the above. > > We have been searching all our deeds from 1703 to 1850. At present up > to > 1845 done. These are all copied, filed and abstracted into spread > sheets that can be searched. My hope is to do a map from the 1798 > Assessment as our earliest map is 1850. > > An assistant transcribed our first first Town minute book from 1788-1841. > > Have indexed most of the vital records. > > The list is extensive. We also have 4 buildings of displays. All of > this started in 1970's with our first Historian. > > Carol Van Buren > > ------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------- 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