Marty, What a wonderful offer. I hope you don't get cought up it a storm like I did when I offered something like this. I am looking for a family and have no idea if you would have them. I don't know when they died. When I last found them in 1930 some were in Middleton and some had already died. Please look for; Cook, Harry E Cook, Miles M. Cook, Miles H. Cook, Irene Cook, Mary E. Cook Jane C. Cook, Green C. Thank you, Ann Brown On 11/14/06, Marty <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > > 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 > -- Ann Brown " Cookie"