The NEGHS is a site that has some places that you need to be a member. But their $60 a year membership, if you don't travel much, are a long way to libraries, etc. is an excellent resources. You can borrow from their huge circulating library....and that alone has done me more good lthan any ONE other site. It has a super search engine, too. Ann

I, too, had the same problem. But I kept going back to it - the page I filled out - and finally it let me in to the database and I was able to search for about ten minutes. Then it quit on me and wouldn't let me back in. I have a feeling it has too many hits on the site at present. Perhaps try back at a later time - or keep the page up and try every few seconds, minutes to register. It does work, but is probably very busy. Carol Fred & Jacquie Schattner wrote: >I'mwondering if any one has had the same problem I did. I filled out the >survey and the it states click on the link below and that sends me to the >NEHGS. But when I search for a name, it states that I am not a member and >need a number, or it gives me how many pieces of information they have on my >names, but won't let me see it unless I log in. If you were able to get >through the maze successfully, please let us all in on the secret. > >Jacquie > >-----Original Message----- >From: Richard Keir [mailto:rkeir@hickorytech.net] >Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 2:26 PM >To: NYOTSEGO-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [NYOTSEGO] Search of NEHGS Registers FREE Nov. 25 - Nov. 28 > >I have been using the NEHGS free access all morning and I used this web >address to start the process. Yes, you do have to complete the survey, but >it's worth the effort. > >www.NewEnglandAncestors.org > >Hope this helps those of you who are having trouble. > >Grace in MN > > > >==== NYOTSEGO Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from this list in list mode send an email with the word, >unsubscribe,in the subject field & body of the message to the following >address: NYOtsego-l-request@rootsweb.com > >============================== >New! OneWorldTree. Building Trees. Connecting Families. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13970/rd.ashx > > >==== NYOTSEGO Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from this list in list mode send an email with the word, unsubscribe,in the subject field & body of the message to the following address: NYOtsego-l-request@rootsweb.com > >============================== >Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > > >

No, I did not have this problem. After I filled out the survey-- the second time I filled out the survey-- I finally DID get the last line that was a hyperlink to the free search. Kathleen >> I'mwondering if any one has had the same problem I did. I filled out the survey and the it states click on the link below and that sends me to the NEHGS. But when I search for a name, it states that I am not a member and need a number, or it gives me how many pieces of information they have on my names, but won't let me see it unless I log in. If you were able to get through the maze successfully, please let us all in on the secret. Jacquie

I'mwondering if any one has had the same problem I did. I filled out the survey and the it states click on the link below and that sends me to the NEHGS. But when I search for a name, it states that I am not a member and need a number, or it gives me how many pieces of information they have on my names, but won't let me see it unless I log in. If you were able to get through the maze successfully, please let us all in on the secret. Jacquie -----Original Message----- From: Richard Keir [mailto:rkeir@hickorytech.net] Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 2:26 PM To: NYOTSEGO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NYOTSEGO] Search of NEHGS Registers FREE Nov. 25 - Nov. 28 I have been using the NEHGS free access all morning and I used this web address to start the process. Yes, you do have to complete the survey, but it's worth the effort. www.NewEnglandAncestors.org Hope this helps those of you who are having trouble. Grace in MN ==== NYOTSEGO Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from this list in list mode send an email with the word, unsubscribe,in the subject field & body of the message to the following address: NYOtsego-l-request@rootsweb.com ============================== New! OneWorldTree. Building Trees. Connecting Families. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13970/rd.ashx

I have been using the NEHGS free access all morning and I used this web address to start the process. Yes, you do have to complete the survey, but it's worth the effort. www.NewEnglandAncestors.org Hope this helps those of you who are having trouble. Grace in MN

I didn't mind taking the very short survey but when I got to the end of the survey, it said "Click the link below to start enjoying your free research"-- and there was NO "Link Below"! Kathleen In a message dated 11/25/04 8:19:14 AM US Mountain Standard Time, k2mi@frontiernet.net writes: http://surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=46883732209

This is a survey, not a cemetery search engine or do you have to take the survey to search. Pat Ratcliff pratclif@earthlink.net Conover, NC > [Original Message] > From: <CARMAlotta@aol.com> > To: <NYOTSEGO-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 11/25/2004 2:04:32 AM > Subject: [NYOTSEGO] Search of NEHGS Registers FREE Nov. 25 - Nov. 28 > > > This is where I have found the Otsego County cemeteries read by Harry E. > Bolton. If you want to search them, here is your chance. Try entering, "Harry > E. Bolton" or the surname of one of your ancestors. > Search for your ancestors in the Register at > _http://surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=46883732209_ (http://surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=46883732209) ! > Carma Stone > > > ==== NYOTSEGO Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list in list mode send an email with the word, unsubscribe,in the subject field & body of the message to the following address: NYOtsego-l-request@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx >

This link gave me free (no membership, no charge) access to NEHGR online today: http://surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=46883732209 This free access started today and is available for most of this weekend. It is available to everyone. Thank you, NEHGS! Marty Irons k2mi@frontiernet.net All e-mail scanned by Norton anti-virus, updated online daily. May all your ancestors YELL at you, telling you how and where to find them. PS: John F Irons (1811 - 1854 Cazenovia NY)...... please stand up on that brick wall and yell out the names I've sought for 11 years......louder! Who were your parents? Where were you born? Who were your siblings?

Carma- This link will not allow us to look at the site - we presume that it is restricted in some way. Thanks, anyway. Leigh Leigh C. Eckmair, Historian Town of Butternuts & The Local History Collection The Gilbertsville Free Library Gilbertsville, NY, 13776 librarian@stny.rr.com http://www.gilbertsville.com/Library.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: <CARMAlotta@aol.com> To: <NYOTSEGO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 2:04 AM Subject: [NYOTSEGO] Search of NEHGS Registers FREE Nov. 25 - Nov. 28 | | This is where I have found the Otsego County cemeteries read by Harry E. | Bolton. If you want to search them, here is your chance. Try entering, "Harry | E. Bolton" or the surname of one of your ancestors. | Search for your ancestors in the Register at | _http://surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=46883732209_ (http://surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=46883732209) ! | Carma Stone | | | ==== NYOTSEGO Mailing List ==== | To unsubscribe from this list in list mode send an email with the word, unsubscribe,in the subject field & body of the message to the following address: NYOtsego-l-request@rootsweb.com | | ============================== | View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find | marriage announcements and more. Learn more: | http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx |

I registered for this free place but it is too complicated for me to understand. Help?Nora

This is where I have found the Otsego County cemeteries read by Harry E. Bolton. If you want to search them, here is your chance. Try entering, "Harry E. Bolton" or the surname of one of your ancestors. Search for your ancestors in the Register at _http://surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=46883732209_ (http://surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=46883732209) ! Carma Stone

Dear Jean and listers---I heartily agree with you---Hugh is a great help. Thank you, Hugh Karwen McIntyre

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THE HISTORY OF SAUK COUNTY WISCONSIN published: Chicago: Western Historical Society 1880 VILLAGE AND TOWN OF REEDSBURG - Page 719 H.C. HUNT, merchant, Reedsburg; was born in the town of Bradford, McKean Co., Penn., on the 27th of January 1840. Mr Hunt came to Reedsburg when a boy of 14, and received his education at the Reedsburg school. On April 21, 1861, he enlisted at Bloomington, Ill., in Co. C. of 20th Ill. V.I.; was Sergeant in the company; during the last two years of service in the army, was on detached service as clerk in Commissary Department. He saw active service in some campaigns in Missouri; afterward participated in the battle of Fort Donelson, at which time he was slightly wounded; was, also, in the engagement of Pittsburg Landing; was mustered out of the service on June 24, 1864. On the 9th of July, 1864, was married to Miss Mary J. Smith, who was born in Otsego Co., N.Y., on the 16th of March, 1843. Their two children - Clinton W. and Mabel - were born Sept. 3, 1867 and April 4, 1875, respectively; both were born in Reedsburg, Wis. Mr. Hunt began his present business, general merchandise, in 1866. He has held the office of Town Treasurer; was County Supervisor for two years, and has recently (1880) been appointed Chairman of the Board of Supervisors to fill vacancy; he is a member of the Board of School Directors; he is a Mason; is Democratic in politics; is a member of Grand Army of the Republic; and commander of the Post at Reedsburg. Father of H.C. Hunt was Auburn O. Hunt, who died in February of 1877. Contributed by Linda Wright

Hi-------Are the any " Pittsley/Pixley " on that list? Jo Anne/Austin,Tx.

Hugh, is there a Butman listed in the Masonic order about 1820 or l830? If so which ones? Connie Beck Hunting for Alexander and Benjamin Butman. ----- Original Message ----- From: Cooperstown Village Historian [mailto:coophist@stny.rr.com] Sent: 11/18/2004 11:35:26 AM To: NYOTSEGO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NYOTSEGO] Masonic Order Jean Chapman Snow There are several accounts of the Masonic Order in Cooperstown, whose Otsego Lodge No. 138 dates from 1796, e.g., Albert T. Van Horne, "History of Freemasonry, embracing Otsego Lodge No. 138, F. & A.M. Otsego Chapter Nov. 26, R.A.M. 1896 to 1906." Cooperstown: Christ, Scott & Parshall, March 1st 1906 [includes summary of early history of Cooperstown Lodge. No reference to Piers or Chapmans in its lists for the 1896-1906 period.] There are also several articles on early Cooperstown Masonic history in Wilber E. Bresee, "Trails From the East, West and South" Oneonta: Wilmer E. Bresee, 1963, and in "Masonic Trails of Early New York", Transactions of the American Lodge of Research, Vol, XV, No. 1, 1981 ("The Wilmer E., Bresee Edition"). However your best bet may be to contact the Secretary of the Otsego Lodge itself -- its website with addresses is: http://www.osmasonry.net/lodges/otsego/otsego.htm They have complete records of the Lodge. The Otsego Herald of December 29, 1810, had the following obituary for Abner Pier: "Died, in this town on Monday the 24th inst. of a typahs [sic] fever, Mr. ABNER PIER in the 49th year of his age. Mr. P. was one of those men who in the trying times of our revolution, bravely stepped forward in defence of his country: and there were but few who suffered more in those perilous times than he did. He was taken by a party of Tories and Indians, and in the most barbarous manner tomahawked, scalped and after all SHOT! and left upon the ground for dead. He lay in such a position that the musket ball passed through a part of his head, twice through one of his arms, and once or twice through one of his legs. To the astonishment of all who were knowing to the circumstances he recovered. He has uniformly supported the character of an upright, honest & intelligible man. His obsequies were attended on the 26th by his Masonic brethren of this vicinity -- who, together with his numerous relatives and acquaintances, formed the largest procession ever witness in this county on a like occasion. -- He has left a disconsolate widow and a number of children to mourn their loss." If you are seeking other genealogical information about your Pier/Chapman ancestors, let me know and I'll try to help. Hugh MacDougall Official Historian Village of Cooperstown 8 Lake Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326-1016 coophist@stny.rr.com ==== NYOTSEGO Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from this list in digest mode send an email with the word, unsubscribe,in the subject field & body of the message to the following address: NYOtsego-d-request@rootsweb.com ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx

In a message dated 11/18/2004 5:01:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, coophist@stny.rr.com writes: http://www.angelfire.com/ny/herkimermasonicdist/winfieldlodgeno581.html Thanks for getting through the block.Is there an historian for West Winfield, for Otsego Co.? Mary Richards

This message was rejected by the sender's e-mail, so since it is in response to my Masonic remarks on the NYOTSEGO-L I thought I would try forwarding it to the list, which Ms. Richards evidently follows. Hugh MacDougall, Cooperstown ----- Original Message ----- From: Cooperstown Village Historian To: Mfallonr@aol.com Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 4:51 PM Subject: Re: Masons!! Mary Richards, I can only suggest that you contact the West Winfield Lodge. Website is at: http://www.angelfire.com/ny/herkimermasonicdist/winfieldlodgeno581.html Hugh MacDougall Official Historian Village of Cooperstown 8 Lake Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326-1016 coophist@stny.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Mfallonr@aol.com To: coophist@stny.rr.com Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 4:12 PM Subject: Masons!! What a great reply you sent in re Masons. Would you please suggest what I might discover about the West Winfield area, where I believe Robert Jones Richards (1847 - 12 Apr 1921) was a Mason. Thank you. Mary Fallon Richards

Is there any information on the lodge in Edmeston? My GGGgrandfather, Elisha Butler, was a member of the Edmeston Lodge, at least he has the symbol on his tombstone. Frank A. Butler > [Original Message] > From: Cooperstown Village Historian <coophist@stny.rr.com> > To: <NYOTSEGO-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 11/18/2004 12:35:12 PM > Subject: Re: [NYOTSEGO] Masonic Order > > Jean Chapman Snow > > There are several accounts of the Masonic Order in Cooperstown, whose > Otsego Lodge No. 138 dates from 1796, e.g., > Albert T. Van Horne, "History of Freemasonry, embracing Otsego > Lodge No. 138, F. & A.M. Otsego Chapter Nov. 26, R.A.M. 1896 to 1906." > Cooperstown: Christ, Scott & Parshall, March 1st 1906 [includes summary of > early history of Cooperstown Lodge. No reference to Piers or Chapmans in its > lists for the 1896-1906 period.] > There are also several articles on early Cooperstown Masonic > history in Wilber E. Bresee, "Trails From the East, West and South" Oneonta: > Wilmer E. Bresee, 1963, and in "Masonic Trails of Early New York", > Transactions of the American Lodge of Research, Vol, XV, No. 1, 1981 ("The > Wilmer E., Bresee Edition"). > However your best bet may be to contact the Secretary of the > Otsego Lodge itself -- its website with addresses is: > http://www.osmasonry.net/lodges/otsego/otsego.htm They have complete records > of the Lodge. > > The Otsego Herald of December 29, 1810, had the following > obituary for Abner Pier: > "Died, in this town on Monday the 24th inst. of a typahs [sic] > fever, Mr. ABNER PIER in the 49th year of his age. Mr. P. was one of those > men who in the trying times of our revolution, bravely stepped forward in > defence of his country: and there were but few who suffered more in those > perilous times than he did. He was taken by a party of Tories and Indians, > and in the most barbarous manner tomahawked, scalped and after all SHOT! and > left upon the ground for dead. He lay in such a position that the musket > ball passed through a part of his head, twice through one of his arms, and > once or twice through one of his legs. To the astonishment of all who were > knowing to the circumstances he recovered. He has uniformly supported the > character of an upright, honest & intelligible man. His obsequies were > attended on the 26th by his Masonic brethren of this vicinity -- who, > together with his numerous relatives and acquaintances, formed the largest > procession ever witness in this county on a like occasion. -- He has left a > disconsolate widow and a number of children to mourn their loss." > > If you are seeking other genealogical information about your > Pier/Chapman ancestors, let me know and I'll try to help. > > Hugh MacDougall > Official Historian > Village of Cooperstown > 8 Lake Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326-1016 > coophist@stny.rr.com > > > > > > ==== NYOTSEGO Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list in digest mode send an email with > the word, unsubscribe,in the subject field & body of the message > to the following address: NYOtsego-d-request@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >

I am very interested in the Green Burlington Cem. Would your list include Calkins, Wells, or Coe? Thanks much. Rita Wells