Bert: Of course we know that both Olives were listed as Widows on the 1900 Census. Lyell >From: "Bertman" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [NYORANGE] (Limited) offer to check Orange County NY >coroners'reports 1905 to 1950 >Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:10:48 -0500 > >Thanks for the offer. > >Samuel Webb >Approximate death date: 1905 > > > > > Looking for Samuel >Webb >b1833 Warwick, N.Y. > >Surnames: > >Fahrney,Harriss,Leiter,Sellman,Staniforth,Webb,Yesler > > Enjoy my >WebSite: Bert's Webb Links > > >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~yearsgoneby/ >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >On Behalf Of Marty >Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 5:05 PM >To: LIST - Orange Co. >Subject: [NYORANGE] (Limited) offer to check Orange County NY coroners' >reports 1905 to 1950 > > >Hi folks, > >I am repeating my limited offer to look for unusual >deaths in coroners reports...until December 31st of this year. > >Requests received after December 31st will not be answered. > >Please read all of this offer before sending requests, as >there are time limits involved. > > From 1905 to 1950 (only) coroners in Orange County NY presented >annual reports to the county Board of Supervisors of UNUSUAL deaths >which they had investigated ...deaths like murder, suicide, >drowning, hit by a train, kicked by a horse, etc...only cases where >a doctor was not present to sign a death certificate. These were >published in the "Board of Supervisors Report" for that year. > >They consist of just one paragraph, which tells who died, when, where >and why (cause of death). A handful of them named other relatives. > >During this 46-year period 6,016 individual reports were published, >covering 3,453 different surnames...far too many to post here. > >This is a valuable resource that was not noticed until a few >years ago. They are not death certificates, and give limited >information, but they help focus on date and place of death. > >A volunteer at Orange County Genealogical Society created an >index of these reports. I have a copy of the index at home, >and can quickly tell if any given name was included. > > From now until 31 December I will volunteer to check the >index of coroners' reports found in the Orange County (NY) >"Board of Supervisors Reports", and if the name requested is >located, to quote the actual report on this list. > >Before you request a lookup, remember the parameters: > >1. Must have died in Orange County NY. >2. Must have died between 1905 and 1950. >3. Must not have died in a hospital or in the presence > of a doctor. >4. Send only name and (approximate) year of death...nothing else, > as the index is by name and date of investigation. If found, > it will tell the year and page. > >Please, no long-winded explanations...just one line per death, >and no "fishing parties" such as "any Smith between 1920 and 1930". > >If found in the index, I will go to OCGS in Goshen and copy the >exact report, then post it to the list. > >If not found in the index, I will tell you off-list, so as not to >waste the time of hundreds of people on the list. > >So go ahead and send requests if you think someone may have died >under unusual circumstances in Orange County NY between 1905 and 1950. > >I'll try my best for you...until December 31st of this year. > >Requests received after that date will not be answered. > >Marty Irons >[email protected] > >All e-mail scanned by Norton 2005 anti-virus, updated online daily. > > > > > > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] 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 >[email protected] 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 >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Stay up-to-date with your friends through the Windows Live Spaces friends list. http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mk