It's only taken me a couple of years to do this, but, I have finally started a lost and found page for Otsego County. A couple of wonderful ladies have sent me tintypes, old photos, letters, etc. that were found in different places and are hoping that these can be rejoined with family members. I've procrastinated long enough and wanted to get them online - so here is the start. The rest will have to wait until next weekend, as I have a very busy week ahead - but take a look and let me know what you think, and/or if you have anything to contribute. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyotsego/ You'll find the link under lost & found. Jan Cortez Otsego County Coordinator

An especially large bouquet to Jan for operating the Rootsweb page for Otsego County. Do the local town historians have email addresses? If so, t would be nice to have the email addresses as well a the snail mail addresses on that page. I went through high school in Schenevus and wonder what the local historians might want for their files. I recall that Schenevus had a sesqui-centennial (150 years), I believe in the late 1930s on what is now Borst Field. I also went to school with Dick Busacker and Dave Huntington from Westford (when the schools were centralized). We were the class of 1943, the third class to graduate from A. S. Draper Central. The class of 1941 never went to school there, just went there to graduate. Cliff Hayes ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Cortez" <cristian@netonecom.net> To: <NYOTSEGO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 7:25 PM Subject: [NYOTSEGO] Lost & Found > It's only taken me a couple of years to do this, but, I have finally started > a lost and found page for Otsego County. A couple of wonderful ladies have > sent me tintypes, old photos, letters, etc. that were found in different > places and are hoping that these can be rejoined with family members. I've > procrastinated long enough and wanted to get them online - so here is the > start. The rest will have to wait until next weekend, as I have a very busy > week ahead - but take a look and let me know what you think, and/or if you > have anything to contribute. > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyotsego/ You'll find the link under lost & found. > > Jan Cortez > Otsego County Coordinator > > > > ==== 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 > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

Jan- We have just received a notice that the New York State Historical Association's [Cooperstown] Library Catalogue is now on line. The link is http://www.nysha.org/library/. We have only had a few minutes to look at it so can not provide any guidance. However, we presume that it will be of assistance to Otsego County researchers. Good Luck, Leigh Leigh C. Eckmair, Historian Town of Butternuts & The Local History Collection THE Gilbertsville Free Library librarian@stny.rr.com http://www.gilbertsville.com/Library.htm