I do not know if anyone has made records by burial # for Oakwood, but I contacted Oakwood Cemetery directly for my ancestors' records, and they sent me the complete records on my family for $10.00. This was 4 years ago. I would call the cemetery first. I spoke to a "Bernie" and he was very courteous and helpful. The records included a hand drawn map of my family's plot with each grave identified, and then a separate record of each interment, which included the interment #, name, place of birth, residence, age (years, month and days so you can figure out the date of birth), date & cause of death, date and place of internment (section & lot), funeral director, nearest relative or friend or parents' names. Not all fields were completed, but there was a lot of info provided. I don't know if you live locally, but the address of Oakwood is 50-101st St. Troy NY 12180, phone # 518-272-7520. Good luck, Donna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Miter" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 3:35 PM Subject: [Rensselaer] Oakwood Cemetery Records - >I have some copies of family plot records from Oakwood Cemetery in Troy. > Unfortunately, most of the interments list only the Burial No., Grave No., > Name and age at time of death. It would be nice to know the date of > death. > For many of the departed, I really would just like to know the year they > were interred. Has anyone ever prepared a table of the sequential burial > numbers and the year they were assigned. Better yet would be a table of > the > number range for each month by year but maybe that would not be worth the > effort. > > Would the records copied by the LDS include all the burial numbers and > what > year they represent? I wonder if it would be worthwhile to go through the > microfilms and try to set up an index table for the Rensselaer Website? > For > example, I have a cousin, Elizabeth MITER Reynolds for whom I do not have > a > birth date. I can't find her in the census records and am trying to at > least establish a death date from an Oakwood plot layout. She is recorded > as Burial #28432 Age 33. If I knew the year of the burial from the Burial > #, I would then have an approximate birth and death year. There are a > number of Miter family plots in Oakwood and I would find a table very > useful. Of course, I can order the films in an get even more information > and perhaps I'll do so this winter. > > The LDS films are: > Index to interments, A-G - FHL US/CAN Film [ 1434121 ] > Index to interments, G-Z Books of interments, v. 1-2 1835-1896 - FHL > US/CAN > Film [ 1434122 ] > Books of interments, v. 3-4 1896-1938 (Volumes 3-4 contain a few dates for > interments moved to Oakwood from elsewhere) Plot books, v. 1-2 1835-1985 - > FHL US/CAN Film [ 1434123 ] > Plot books, v. 2 (cont.) to v. 5 1835-1985 - FHL US/CAN Film [ 1434124 ] > Plot books, v. 6-7 1835-1985 - FHL US/CAN Film [ 1434125 ] > > Brad Miter (rambling on on a snowy day in Ohio) > > > > ==== NYRENSSE Mailing List ==== > Do you have Irish ancestors who landed, lived or passed through NY State? > Join a new list related to the history, culture and geneology of the Irish > in NY > mailto:[email protected]?body=subscribe

Thanks for the information Donna. As I have about a half-dozen family plots in Oakwood, I think I'll try the films before getting records from the cemetery. I do have plot diagrams for all of them. I had thought, though, that the fee would be for each person buried in the plot, not for all the inhabitants for just $10. I can't remember if I told the list that this summer I found a William J. Wilner in the plot with my grgrandmother Julia Wilner GOULD. When I started doing research on him the census records (particularly the 1880 Census) showed he had been running a bawdy house for over 20 years. The 1870 and 1880 census showed 4 young ladies in the residence along with he and his wife. The wife was listed as a prostitute also along with the others in the 1880 one. Such are the hazards of genealogical mining! Brad -----Original Message----- From: Donna K. Vaughn [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 6:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Rensselaer] Oakwood Cemetery Records - I do not know if anyone has made records by burial # for Oakwood, but I contacted Oakwood Cemetery directly for my ancestors' records, and they sent me the complete records on my family for $10.00. This was 4 years ago. I would call the cemetery first. I spoke to a "Bernie" and he was very courteous and helpful. The records included a hand drawn map of my family's plot with each grave identified, and then a separate record of each interment, which included the interment #, name, place of birth, residence, age (years, month and days so you can figure out the date of birth), date & cause of death, date and place of internment (section & lot), funeral director, nearest relative or friend or parents' names. Not all fields were completed, but there was a lot of info provided. I don't know if you live locally, but the address of Oakwood is 50-101st St. Troy NY 12180, phone # 518-272-7520. Good luck, Donna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Miter" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 3:35 PM Subject: [Rensselaer] Oakwood Cemetery Records - >I have some copies of family plot records from Oakwood Cemetery in Troy. > Unfortunately, most of the interments list only the Burial No., Grave No., > Name and age at time of death. It would be nice to know the date of > death. > For many of the departed, I really would just like to know the year they > were interred. Has anyone ever prepared a table of the sequential burial > numbers and the year they were assigned. Better yet would be a table of > the > number range for each month by year but maybe that would not be worth the > effort. > > Would the records copied by the LDS include all the burial numbers and > what > year they represent? I wonder if it would be worthwhile to go through the > microfilms and try to set up an index table for the Rensselaer Website? > For > example, I have a cousin, Elizabeth MITER Reynolds for whom I do not have > a > birth date. I can't find her in the census records and am trying to at > least establish a death date from an Oakwood plot layout. She is recorded > as Burial #28432 Age 33. If I knew the year of the burial from the Burial > #, I would then have an approximate birth and death year. There are a > number of Miter family plots in Oakwood and I would find a table very > useful. Of course, I can order the films in an get even more information > and perhaps I'll do so this winter. > > The LDS films are: > Index to interments, A-G - FHL US/CAN Film [ 1434121 ] > Index to interments, G-Z Books of interments, v. 1-2 1835-1896 - FHL > US/CAN > Film [ 1434122 ] > Books of interments, v. 3-4 1896-1938 (Volumes 3-4 contain a few dates for > interments moved to Oakwood from elsewhere) Plot books, v. 1-2 1835-1985 - > FHL US/CAN Film [ 1434123 ] > Plot books, v. 2 (cont.) to v. 5 1835-1985 - FHL US/CAN Film [ 1434124 ] > Plot books, v. 6-7 1835-1985 - FHL US/CAN Film [ 1434125 ] > > Brad Miter (rambling on on a snowy day in Ohio) > > > > ==== NYRENSSE Mailing List ==== > Do you have Irish ancestors who landed, lived or passed through NY State? > Join a new list related to the history, culture and geneology of the Irish > in NY > mailto:[email protected]?body=subscribe ==== NYRENSSE Mailing List ==== The NYRENSSE Mailing List Website http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYRensse/ A place to unsub, change your subscription, access the archives and links.