Martha, Oakwood Cemetery has almost 60,000 people buried there, so it would be a project too large to do. 60 volunteers would have to transcribe a thousand gravestones each. You probably saw a few selected burials put on a site like Find-a-Grave. As was mentioned Barbara Jefferies transcribed some of them, but it was fewer than 400 stones. Click on the following if you would like to read a little about the cemetery (their own site). http://www.oakwoodcemetery.org/ Cliff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Martha Johnson wrote: >I once found an online listing of burials in Oakwood Cem. in Troy, >but can not find it again. Can someone direct me? > >Martha > >
I'm a little curious about this. Cemeteries aren't anywhere near as big as Oakwood around here but people have gone out and indexed burials in cemeteries and put the names and dates they found in books. They don't do that in New York? I always assumed they did that everywhere. ---------------------- > Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:04:29 -0500 > From: clifflamere@nycap.rr.com > To: nyrensse@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NYRENSSE] Oakwood Cemetery listing > > Martha, > > Oakwood Cemetery has almost 60,000 people buried there, so it would be a > project too large to do. 60 volunteers would have to transcribe a > thousand gravestones each. You probably saw a few selected burials put > on a site like Find-a-Grave. As was mentioned Barbara Jefferies > transcribed some of them, but it was fewer than 400 stones. > > Click on the following if you would like to read a little about the > cemetery (their own site). > > http://www.oakwoodcemetery.org/ > > Cliff > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Martha Johnson wrote: > > >I once found an online listing of burials in Oakwood Cem. in Troy, > >but can not find it again. Can someone direct me? > > > >Martha > > > > > > ====NY-RENSSE Mailing List==== > Check out the mailing list's website at: > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYRensse/ > Don't forget the Rensselaer County Message Board: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.rensselaer/mb.ashx > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYRENSSE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Stay up to date on your PC, the Web, and your mobile phone with Windows Live http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/119462413/direct/01/