Thanks so much for sharing this information. I have posted a special alert on the home page of my website The Poorhouse Story at http://www.poorhousestory.com Linda Crannell (aka=The Poorhouse Lady) > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 5:27 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NYSARATO] Times Union Article > > > > Forgotten in life, interrupted in death > > Albany -- University Heights project rising atop almshouse's > burial field > may force relocation of remains > > by: ELIZABETH BENJAMIN Staff writer > > Such is the lot of the poor, the unwanted, the unidentified and the > forgotten of 19th-century Albany -- laid to rest in more than a thousand > unmarked graves now paved over by a parking lot. > They were the city's most marginal inhabitants, whose deaths were > allotted > one line apiece in a ledger kept at the Albany County Hall of Records. ' > Unknown man, found drowned in the river,'' one entry reads. > 'Died suddenly > in > jail,'' says another. Many state simply, 'Stillborn.'' > > Since early March, archaeologists have uncovered the remains of four > people > behind the New Scotland Avenue Armory while doing site work for the > University Heights project -- a campus for a consortium of local colleges > that could eventually include a megabookstore and food court in the old > armory as well as a hotel and conference center. > > To read the rest of the article, go to: > > http://timesunion.com/ss.asp?s=31983&c=F > > To visit the site's homepage, go to http://timesunion.com > > > > > ============================== > The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Tens of millions of individuals... and counting. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > >