Leigh, New Berlin has a shoe box full of old burial permits. Do any of the towns in Otsego County that you know of? Elaine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gilbertsville Free Library" <librarian@stny.rr.com> To: <NYOTSEGO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 10:01 AM Subject: [NYOTSEGO] NYOTSEGO] Cemeteries > > Sandy- > > Thanks so much for the reminder that on-line cemetery lists can be far from > complete. Many of the lists are made from reading headstones. Many head- > stones are unreadable due to the ravages of time and many graves have never > had headstones. > > We need to remind ALL researchers that if they do not find on-line burial/cemetery > records they need, PLEASE remember that there are lots of other places where > clues to this information may be found. However, finding them may take time and > a require a bit of "digging." No one ever said it would be or should be easy. > > Thanks for all the super work you do and please keep it up, > > 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: "Sandy Goodspeed" <Goodspsm@oneonta.edu> > To: <NYOTSEGO-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 9:16 PM > Subject: Re: [NYOTSEGO] Cemeteries > > > | Guilty!! I am guilty of having compiled all the records and read > | all the stones in Riverside, Oneonta Plains and Glenwood cemeteries in > | Oneonta but have not put them on line. :'( I do offer lookups for them > | and I enjoy doing so. I also include other family members, especially > | ladies' maiden names, as well as women being buried with first husbands > | and under their names rather than their second marriage which many times > | people searching are not aware of. Really confusing these ladies who > | die under one name and are buried under another. > > > > ==== 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 > > >

Every town is supposed to have them as they are considered permanent records,.................however, not a whole lot have survived. L. 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: "elainedecker" <elainedecker@frontiernet.net> To: <NYOTSEGO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 12:35 PM Subject: Re: [NYOTSEGO] NYOTSEGO] Cemeteries | Leigh, | New Berlin has a shoe box full of old burial permits. Do any of the | towns in Otsego County that you know of? | Elaine |