Re: a DIVORCE in QUEBEC circa 1850. Several weeks ago I had queried the list about where to find divorce records for Ontario (and on another list for NY.) In any case, from one of these lists, a gentleman answered me, with some information. He also sent me some names he was hoping to find a trace of. I *did* have the names, but had several note/computer problems along the way and all is now lost. However, I *did* check the CANADA GAZETTE for 1850 in which legal notices are /were published. Only two divorces were published that year. 1. James ARCHIBALD of Chatham had filed for divorce from his wife Jane, "formerly Jane McNAUGHTON, she having been guilty of adultery since my marriage to her." This was dated 9th July 1849, and appeared in the Gazette under "Applications to Parliament" from then until the issue # 465, Saturday, May 18, 1850, James' application no longer appears. 2. Canada Gazette, # 473, Sarah Jane CRAIG of Harwich applied the 20th June 1850 "for an act dissolving the marriage contract between Andrew CRAIG and myself and absolving me from the same, in consequence of his total neglect of me for the last year past, and his disregard of the said marriage contract." These Gazettes are not indexed in the volumes. I closely read 1850's issues, and scanned 1849, in which no divorce applications seemed to appear. These applications were published in each issue after the first in which they appeared- I suppose until the divorce was granted. This Gazette covers many legal situations in Quebec, and eastern Canada as well as Ontario, particularly wills, bankruptcies and land sales for taxes. Some very interesting cases were to be seen. Regrettably the Quebec Gazette, which might be more useful, is missing the 1850's issues at the university here (or perhaps did not publish then?). I also looked in the first few months of the (rather dull) Quebec Chronicle newspaper, and did not see any legal notices (although there are BMD's). Sorry not to have been of more help. Regards Maridel Crawford-Brown

Can anyone tell me what became of the Grace Methodist Church on 7th Ave. in Troy? How would I go about locating records from that church? Apparently my whole family was baptized, married, etc. there, and I can find NOTHING online about it. Thanks, Eve Surnames: Roberts, Hancox, Willetts, Williams, Grogan, Babcock

While the above is my wife's surname, her paternal grandmother and great-grandparents were from NYC out of Hesse-Nassau, Germany in 1874. They were, the great-grandparents, Philip & Lizzie Muller. Albany County recently placed on-line their index of Naturalization Records. Does any one know if the same has been done in NYC and what is the web address? Thank you. James H. Tyler SYRACUSE, the Heart of New York! ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Thank you for your offer. Would you mind checking for a HENRY LEWIS JAUSS/JAUS. Born abt 1835-1839. Thank you, Diane --- TMyers1938@aol.com wrote: > I do civil war lookups and research, if there is someone > you are looking for I would be glad to help. Please send > full name only of person you are looking for. > Ted > > > ==== NYRENSSE Mailing List ==== > Some Rensselaer Births, Marriages & Deaths: > http://www.angelfire.com/fl/Sumter/Troy.html > Rensselaer County Genweb page: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyrensse/ > GenConnect Board: > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Rensselaer > Listowner: Pat Connors mailto:nymets11@pacbell.net > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/

I do civil war lookups and research, if there is someone you are looking for I would be glad to help. Please send full name only of person you are looking for. Ted

In case you are new to the list, the following info is on my web page. http://members.tripod.com/~JeffriesB THE NEW YORK BARRINGERS Desc. of Johannes Coonradt Beringer MY PALATINE ANCESTORS Barringer, Jager, Simon, Haner, Treber, Reisdorph TINKLEPAUGH Family Genealogy ZUFELD- WEATHERWAX - HOLTSAPPLE Family Genealogies JEFF LAPE'S PAGE LOWE/LAPE genealogy & much more jb's GENEALOGY PAGE Many surnames with descendants incl.: Uline, Dix, Bidwell, Clapper, Cooper, Doty, Carmon, Black, Brust, etc etc. RENSSELAER COUNTY, NY WEB PAGE Includes Church, Census, & Cemetery records. DEFOREST-DEFREEST / WENDELL A few descendants of David Defreest (1747-1815)and a few descendants of Philip Wendell (1741-1812) HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD - 1870 - CENSUS Troy fifth ward - Nassau - Poestenkill - Berlin - Grafton (all Renssealaer Co., NY) WITBECK/WHITBECK Family Genealogy JETS - JEETS - YEATS - YATES Some of the descendants of Joseph Yates KLOCKNER-CLICKNER Some of the descendants of Johannes(George) Klockner (1741-1833) RUNNELLS/REYNOLDS Some descendants of Thomas & Christina (Mohr) Runnells/Reynolds. REICHARD Some of the descendants of Michael Reichard of Rensselaer Co. SCHNEIDER/SNYDER Some of the early Snyders of Rensselaer Co. KUHLMANN/KILLMORE/KILMER Some of the desc. of Johannes & Anna Veronica (Becker) Kilmer LINCK/LYNK/LINK Some of the desc. of Johann Wilhelm & Anna Eva (Firsback) Link PHILIPP/PHILLIP/PHILLIPS/PHILIPS Some of the desc. of Johann Petrus & Magdalena Philip BRANDAW - BRANDAU - BRANDO - BRANDOW Some of the descendants of Johann Wilhelm & Maria Elisabetha Catharina Brandow of Greene Co., NY For living desc. contact Joe Travis jtravis@parl.net and Lisa Orecchio genealogy@orecchio.net DIEDRICH and LAMPMAN Some of the desc. of Johann Friederich Dietrich and some of the desc. of Johann Peter Lampman PERSON and DEWITT A few of the desc. of Matthys & Jan Person and a few of the desc. of Lucas Dewitt - Ulster & Greene Co. PULVER Some of the desc. of Johann Wilhelm (Wendel) Pulver - a Palatine German family. WILTSE - WILLSE - WILSIE Some of the desc. of Marten Hendrickse Wiltse RENSSELAER CO. PROBATE ABSTRACTS #1 1790 and up RENSSELAER CO. PROBATE ABSTRACTS #2 continued from #1 MARRIAGES - GILEAD LUTHERAN CHURCH -Center Brunswick, Rensselaer Co., NY 1802 to 1859 MARRIAGES - SCHODACK REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH at Muitzeskill - Rensselaer Co., NY 1788 to 1846 MARRIAGES - REFORMED PROTESTANT DUTCH CHURCH at NASSAU - Rensselaer Co., NY 1805 -1848 DUTCHESS COUNTY CEMETERIES Interments before 1880 KREBSER/CRAPSEY/CROPSEY Desc. of Wm, Valentine, & Ananias Cropsey COONRADT A few of the desc. of Adam and Elisabeth (Clum) Coonradt ANTHONY Some of the early Anthony familes RENSSELAER COUNTY DEATHS 1850-1860-1870-1880 Mortality Schedules & 1875 State Census RENSSELAER CO. MARRIAGES 1864 & 1865 RENSSELAER Co. MARRIAGES 1874 &1875 MARRIAGES from TROY churches 1st Presby. Ch. and State St. Meth. Ch. OAKWOOD CEMETERY BURIALS, Troy, NY includes date of death, place of birth, age, & parents BLOOMING GROVE CHURCH RECORDS -Rens. Co. Births 1814-1865 ----Marriages 1831-1862 ---- Deaths 1895-1926 MARRIAGES St. Paul's Episcopal Ch. of Troy - 1805-1829 ----!st Presbyterian Ch. of Brunswick 1876-1887 --- 1st Presbyterian Ch. of Lansingburgh 1840-1848 MORE RENSSELAER CO. DEATHS Incl. Burials from ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CH. of TROY and SOCIETY OF FRIENDS BAPTISMS - St. Paul's Episcopal Ch., Troy, NY 1804-1826 BIRTHS & BAPTISMS 1st Presbyterian Ch., Brunswick 1812-1832 and Society of Friends 1743-1840- both Rensselaer Co. MARRIAGES >From Troy, NY newspapers 1798-1859 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/

I am researching the surname BOWNE plus what other types of burial are there? as to cremations burial at sea family plots church plots government plots state plots city plots cemeteries that are abandoned some keep ashes at home maybe that is where some of our elusive family members are I am looking for allied families married to a BOWNE Thanks Audrey Bowne Seattle gbowne@email.msn.com

I have some ancestors who were "flax drawers" first in Scotland and then in Schaghticoke. They seemed to leave Rensselaer County some time after 1880 and go to other places. One went to Webster MA to work in a Linen Mill and some others went to Providence, RI, right around 1900. Were there lots of things shutting down about that time? My g.g.grandfather (no relation to the Scottish flax workers) had a mill and shirt factory in Brunswick which was right on the Quackenkill. The City of Troy diverted the Quackenkill for a city water supply and he went bankrupt about 1885. Barb Baxter http://www.pinehurst.net/genealogy/

Hi Barb, WROTE TO YOU AT genealogy@ncpines.net AND IT WAS RETURNED! WHAT IS THE CORRECT ADDRESS (and I am not shouting!!!) Barbara __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/

Thanks Jeanne, > http:www.albanycounty.com Should be http://www.albanycounty.com The slashes // were missing :)) Ron Myers San Diego "Jeanne M. Keefe" wrote: > > Hello fellow NYRENSSE-Listers: > > The Alnamy County Hall of Records has just made a new database availible to > the public. Its an index of the Albany County Naturalization Requests. Its > searchable now at > > http:www.albanycounty.com > > and then click on the new database listed in the sidebar to the right. > I found information on my Great-Great grandfather Maurice Morrissey on > my very first try! > > Happy searching! > > Jeanne Keefe > > Jeanne M. Keefe > Visual Resources Librarian > Architecture Library > Greene Building, Rm 306 > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute > 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180 > Tel: 518-276-2727 > Fax: 518-276-3034 > E-mail: keefej@rpi.edu > > ==== NYRENSSE Mailing List ==== > Barbara's Genealogy Page: http://members.tripod.com/~JeffriesB > Rensselaer County Genweb page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyrensse/ > GenConnect Board: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Rensselaer > Listowner, Pat Connors: mailto:nymets11@pacbell.net

Hello fellow NYRENSSE-Listers: The Alnamy County Hall of Records has just made a new database availible to the public. Its an index of the Albany County Naturalization Requests. Its searchable now at http:www.albanycounty.com and then click on the new database listed in the sidebar to the right. I found information on my Great-Great grandfather Maurice Morrissey on my very first try! Happy searching! Jeanne Keefe Jeanne M. Keefe Visual Resources Librarian Architecture Library Greene Building, Rm 306 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180 Tel: 518-276-2727 Fax: 518-276-3034 E-mail: keefej@rpi.edu

Seeking information on the parents of George Henry Lovett who was born in Troy,NY on May 13,1852. His father's name was Ulysses Lovett and I only have "Eliza" as the name of his mother. George was put in the Troy Orphan Asylum from 1863-1865 by his father, who never returned for him. Geogre was indentured to a George Sheldon of Willsboro,NY. Why didn't his father return? Who was Eliza? Who was Ulysses? George Lovett married Mary Evelyn Pratt who was born in Lewis,NY on Apr.29,1858. They settled in Willsboro,NY and had 8 children: George Edward b. 1877, Mary Agnes b.1880, William Oscar b.1883, Emma Susan b. 1885,Anna Elizabeth b.1888, Victor Raymond b.1891, Harry Herman b.1894, and Minnie Jane b.1897. Any info. on Ulysses Lovett would be greatly appreciated. Jackie Gareau, Benoit/Benway, Lovett, Pratt, Crossett, Sargent

I will be on vacation for a couple of weeks. In my absence Susan Willig will be handling the bounces. It must be stressed, she can't sub or unsub anyone. I sent a message last Thursday to cover how that can be done. You can also get help at: http://www.rootsweb.com Thank you Susan for your help. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA, listowner Siochain Leat (peace be with you) "she-a-chon lat" with a slight aspirate on the "chon" Researching: Connors/O'Connor, McEntee, Campbell, Flynn/O'Flynn, Smith, Phillips, Carter, Boyle, O'Rourke, Healey, Cullinan, Hoare, Todd, Owen, Booth, Gallagher, Fahey, Ryan, Haviland http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~nymets http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/o/n/Pat-Connors/ mailto:nymets11@pacbell.net

>Your Sarah Vaughn is my 1st cousin 8 times removed. Her mother was Johanna >Sweet whose GGfather John Sweet came from England with at least 3 sons in >the 1630's and settled in RI. Your Benjamin is probably the GGGson of John >the imigrant. That leaves a lot of possible connections as it seems most >stayed in RI. I can't help other that this little bit unless you want a >gedcom of Sarah's ancestors which will include Ben's at some point. 8-) Cole > > Looking for information on Benjamin Sweet (see below) > > Benjamin was the Elder of 7th Day Baptist Church of Little Hoosick, NY, > > between 1801 > > and 1837. > > > > 1 Job Spencer b: March 26, 1730 in East Greenwich, Kent, RI d: February > > 14, 1775 in West Greenwich, R I > > .. +Sarah Vaughan b: May 24, 1726 in East Greenwich, Kent, RI m: 1750 in > > West Greenwich, R I d: May 05, 1760 in West Greenwich, R I > > ........ 2 Zilpha Spencer b: January 05, 1749/50 in West Greenwich, R I > > d: 1840 > > ............ +Allen Stafford > > ........ *2nd Husband of Zilpha Spencer: > > ............ +Benjamin Sweet > > ................... 3 Oliver Sweet b: May 09, 1777 in West Greenwich, R >I > > ................... 3 Phebe Sweet b: January 25, 1782 in West Greenwich, >R > > I > > ........ 2 Mary Spencer b: 1751 > > ............ +John Reynolds b: in Exeter > > ........ 2 Randall Spencer > > > > "Once in the flight of ages past, There lived a man:__and who was he? Unknown the regions of his birth, The sand in which he died unknown: His name has perished from the earth."

> Looking for information on Benjamin Sweet (see below) > Benjamin was the Elder of 7th Day Baptist Church of Little Hoosick, NY, > between 1801 > and 1837. > > 1 Job Spencer b: March 26, 1730 in East Greenwich, Kent, RI d: February > 14, 1775 in West Greenwich, R I > .. +Sarah Vaughan b: May 24, 1726 in East Greenwich, Kent, RI m: 1750 in > West Greenwich, R I d: May 05, 1760 in West Greenwich, R I > ........ 2 Zilpha Spencer b: January 05, 1749/50 in West Greenwich, R I > d: 1840 > ............ +Allen Stafford > ........ *2nd Husband of Zilpha Spencer: > ............ +Benjamin Sweet > ................... 3 Oliver Sweet b: May 09, 1777 in West Greenwich, R I > ................... 3 Phebe Sweet b: January 25, 1782 in West Greenwich, R > I > ........ 2 Mary Spencer b: 1751 > ............ +John Reynolds b: in Exeter > ........ 2 Randall Spencer > >

AtDear Clifford: Thank you so much for your list of County and Sttate facilities. I appreciate the time and work you spent in this reearch. Violet Stahl =

In a message dated 7/27/00 4:28:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, clifflamere@global2000.net writes: << The Guide contains information about each site, including address, phone number and website URL. It also tells whether searches will be done by the staff of each facility. >> Cliff - Your guide is very informative. Thank you for your time in putting it together and sharing it with us. Mary Ann McConnell Troy, NY

I have just revised and greatly expanded the "Guide to Albany Area Genealogical Resources" which I wrote last summer. It now contains information on 27 sites in six counties (Albany, Columbia, Rensselaer, Greene, Schenectady, and Montgomery). I tried to have it available at the beginning of the summer for those of you who were travelling to the area to do research. However, I was too busy trying to set up a website on which to post it. The Guide contains information about each site, including address, phone number and website URL. It also tells whether searches will be done by the staff of each facility. http://www.members.global2000.net/~clifflamere/Guide.htm Cliff

I am repeating how to unsubscribe to a rootsweb list. Soon, I will be away for a couple of weeks so you will not get help from me to unsub you. It is quite easy if you follow the directions. If you have changed servers, email me privately in the next day or two and I'll be able to help you. TO SUBSCRIBE OR UNSUBSCRIBE from any RootsWeb-hosted mailing list, send an e-mail message with only the word SUBSCRIBE (or UNSUBSCRIBE) in the subject and the body of the message to [name of list]-L-request@rootsweb.com (for mail mode) or to [name of list]-D-request@rootsweb.com (for digest mode). FOR EXAMPLE, if you are interested in Newfoundland, Canada, send SUBSCRIBE request to: CAN-NEWFOUNDLAND-L-request@rootsweb.com -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA, listowner Siochain Leat (peace be with you)

Cliff, you are to be commended and congratulated for such a wonderful site. I know it took much research and work and is a valuable took for all Rensselaer searchers. I have bookmarked it. Thank you for you dedication to helping others. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA, listowner Siochain Leat (peace be with you) Researching: Connors/O'Connor, McEntee, Campbell, Flynn/O'Flynn, Smith, Phillips, Carter, Boyle, O'Rourke, Healey, Cullinan, Hoare, Todd, Owen, Booth, Gallagher, Fahey, Ryan, Haviland http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~nymets http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/o/n/Pat-Connors/ mailto:nymets11@pacbell.net