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    1. Re: [NYOTSEGO] Cemeteries
    2. Sandy Goodspeed
    3. 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. A few advantages that I supply, which would not be found if just the cemetery names were on line, is that I also send all other information on everyone buried in any lot relating to a surname being searched and have supplied many people with ladies for whom married names were never known. I also search the many many records that I have collected for Oneonta area and supply much more information for individuals than just burial places and dates and many times have gone beyond that to dig for a little more information for someone. I also search the many scrapbooks I have indexed for Huntington Library NYS room and provide librarian access for people to contact her for information...indexes that are not available on line. I also search the many obits that I have for Oneonta Plains Cem. from 1973-1995 just to name a few. If just the cemetery entries were on line, none of this other information would be available. Annette, thanks SO much for all the wonderful volunteering you do in transcribing records. Without your wonderful help, there would be so much less online for researchers. And I hope that you get tons of cemetery records to transcribe for online!! Thanks to ALL the many transcribers... without you there wouldn't be much help out there for those who can't travel. If we all share what we collect, we can help everybody. A note of CAUTION regarding transcribed cemeteries on the Otsego Co. web page-----there are many that lead you to believe that it is the entire cemetery transcribed on line when it isn't. It's just an oversight that no one stated it was only a partial listing. For example, the Colliersville Cemetery (often called Cooperstown Junction Cem.) was online. I did not realize they were one and the same and when I read the stones and transcribed the cemetery a few years ago, I discovered that there were about 400 entries in the cemetery and only about 1/3 were actually transcribed on line but nothing was stated so it was thought that the entire cemetery was transcribed.. So always try to make sure that ALL the transcriptions are online or your ancestor could be there and you think they aren't because they aren't listed. You can always contact the transcriber to be sure. Sandy Goodspeed, Oneonta Plains Cemetery Historian Annette Campbell wrote: I find it interesting that there are some cemeteries that have been read in full but are not on-line but the persons are doing look-ups. I have offered my services many times to type up these cemeteries if you don't care to with full tribute to you for reading them.

    07/08/2005 03:16:55