Sandy- Wishing you Happy New Year, a Healthy and Peaceful One, Too. GREAT JOB........................What do you do for encores? 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 |

Hi Leigh, What I'd like to do is to have Kathy of what used to be the Lewis-Hurley funeral home share the information she has on all the oldest burials with me. I tried to get them to let me compile their records on computer just befoer Jim Hurley sold her the funeral home but she saidi they were going to have an "intern" do it but that she would share the info with me when it was done. I haven't gotten around to contacting her again. The intern had some other things to do first....like making the home handicapped accessible so I don't know if they got the records done or not. I want to contact her but guess I'm afraid that either it hasn't been done or that she will not share the info with me. I found a notice in an old newspaper that McCrum had over 4000 (I think) burial records or at least the largest in the area and McCrums & Lewises were related so his records ended up at Lewis'. It's possible that they have records of deaths that can't be found anywhere else as the Oneonta paper didn't start until 1853. I must take my courage in hand and go down and see her personally and beg on bended knee for access to those old burial records. At the time I talked to them, Jim said anything less than 50 years old, was accessible which was fine with me. I'm hoping to access the old records and not only find deaths but burial places and maaybe even more wonderful, parents listed. I know that Bookhout has parents listed in their records but then they only started in 1929 when McCrum was around long before that. Hope you have a wonderful year, too. Sandy Gilbertsville Free Library wrote: >Sandy- > >Wishing you Happy New Year, a Healthy and Peaceful One, Too. > >GREAT JOB........................What do you do for encores? > >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 > >| > > >==== 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 > > >

Wow Sandy, That would be so great! I really hope that she lets you do it. I wish these people could understand how valuable this information is. Wishing you the best of luck and if there is anything the rest of us can do, let us know Rene' -------Original Message------- From: Sandy Goodspeed Date: 01/10/05 11:39:25 To: NYOTSEGO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NYOTSEGO] Marriage/Death Notices Oneonta Herald & Democrat 1 Hi Leigh, What I'd like to do is to have Kathy of what used to be the Lewis-Hurley funeral home share the information she has on all the oldest burials with me. I tried to get them to let me compile their records on computer just befoer Jim Hurley sold her the funeral home but she saidi they were going to have an "intern" do it but that she would share the info with me when it was done. I haven't gotten around to contacting her again. The intern had some other things to do first....like making the home handicapped accessible so I don't know if they got the records done or not. I want to contact her but guess I'm afraid that either it hasn't been done or that she will not share the info with me. I found a notice in an old newspaper that McCrum had over 4000 (I think) burial records or at least the largest in the area and McCrums & Lewises were related so his records ended up at Lewis'. It's possible that they have records of deaths that can't be found anywhere else as the Oneonta paper didn't start until 1853. I must take my courage in hand and go down and see her personally and beg on bended knee for access to those old burial records. At the time I talked to them, Jim said anything less than 50 years old, was accessible which was fine with me. I'm hoping to access the old records and not only find deaths but burial places and maaybe even more wonderful, parents listed. I know that Bookhout has parents listed in their records but then they only started in 1929 when McCrum was around long before that. Hope you have a wonderful year, too. Sandy Gilbertsville Free Library wrote: >Sandy- > >Wishing you Happy New Year, a Healthy and Peaceful One, Too. > >GREAT JOB........................What do you do for encores? > >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 > >| > > >==== 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 > > > ==== 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 ============================== New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429