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| County | Volunteer | Act of Kindness |
|---|---|---|
| Albany | Sue Halliday | digital Gravestone pictures. Many cemeteries in the Albany, Troy, Schenectady and Southern Saratoga area. A lot and section number is always helpful for the bigger cemeteries. Outlying areas may have a gas charge. Not limited to Albany Rural, Vale, Graceland, Greenbush, St. John's Lutheran, Greenridge, Waterford Rural, Memory's Garden. A gas charge will be applied to Village of Catskill aka Thompson Street and Town of Catskill aka New Jefferson Rural as they are an hour away. |
| All | Rose Green | Surname search in genealogy groups. |
| Cattaraugus | Doug Brooks | Gravestone pictures. Crawford and Calvary cemeteries in Salamanca, NY. |
| Cattaraugus | Pamela Baase | Public Records lookups and copying, courthouse & library. Obituaries. Gravestone pictures, Reimbursement may be required. I can look up census records, marriage licenses. Obituary-Salamanca newspapers. Need at least month and year of birth/marriage/death. Primarily can take digital photos of Little Valley Cemetery, Sunset Hill, and smaller cemeteries. Will not do Salamanca, Olean, Randolph and cemeteries in the northern municipals. If possible, a general location of the grave would be appreciated. |
| Chautauqua | Darcy Crickard | Lookups in 1892-1893 Jamestown Directory. Specific names only please. This directory also includes Lakewood, Falconer & business directory. |
| Chemung | Patricia Wainwright | Unable to get death or birth certificates but will guide in how to get them. Will do look ups of obits, and births in newspapers, city and county directories, wills and land deeds. |
| Chemung | Garth Rumsmoke | Public Records lookups and copying, courthouse & library. Obituaries. Gravestone pictures, Reimbursement may be required. Limit Cemt visits to within 25 of Elmira Chemung Co NY |
| Chemung | Carole Knowlton | Public Records (courthouse) lookups and copying. Public Records (library)lookups and copying. Obituaries. Reimbursement may be required. |
| Chenango | David Fors | Digital photos of Chenango County Cemeteries. |
| Chenango | Jack L. Eaton | Lookups available in a 1902 Chenango Co. Directory which lists residents of towns and villages at that time (1902). Information often includes occupation, property owned, and numbers of livestock, if a farmer. Also an address (if it is a rural road, the address is given as a road number which corresponds with a map of the county in 1902. Copies of the map available also for cost of copying and mailing. There is no overall index, although names are alpabetized within each town and/or village |
| Clinton | Donald J. Cosgro | Obits and other news can be found at website below. Many Northern New York counties newspapers have been digitized. http://news.nnyln.net/ I can take gravestone photos for cemeteries close to the city of Plattsburgh (10 miles). |
| Delaware | Glen LePinnet | Videotaping Cemeteries, Still photos of tombstones. |
| Erie | Jacquie Schattner | Maplewood Cemetery, Springville, NY. Look ups by name from late 1800's to 1960's. Pls give approximate death date. No obit or photo requests. |
| Erie | Shirley | Will do look ups in NYS vital records index for births (1881-1934), marriages (1881-1959) and deaths (1881-1959). Must have approximate year. No City of Buffalo births nor deaths before 1914. |
| Erie | Candy Ditkowski | Digital photos of tombstones - cemeteries in Hamburg, Eden, Orchard Park, Lackawanna, Blasdell, and West Seneca. PLEASE TRY to provide at least a general location of the site as I do not have immediate access to cemetery records. You may find helpful cemetery contact information at the following site: http://members.tripod.com/~wnyroots/index-master.html I can do photos from May thru October. I may be willing to drive further throughout the county if necessary and for cost of mileage. |
| Erie | Dave Pape | University at Buffalo Library microfilm collection - newspapers (Buffalo News 1881-1926/1957-2008, Morning Express 1847-1867, Evening Post 1853-1877, others); UB newspapers & yearbooks; Buffalo City Directories; New York County and Regional Histories and Atlases, |
| Herkimer | Sandi Gates | Look ups and cemetery pictures for the Town of Ohio ONLY, Herkimer Co., NY |
| Herkimer | Faith & Ross Eckler | Public records look-ups: wills, deeds, census & church records, etc. Obits when available. MAY TO OCTOBER only. |
| Herkimer | Millie Guinup | I will do obituary lookups (ONLY) at our local library that covers the towns,, LITTLE FALLS, HERKIMER, MOHAWK AND ILION. PLEASE give exact dates (month,day, and year) |
| Herkimer | Michael Schuler | Videotaping Cemeteries, Still photos of tombstones, Public Records lookups and copying. |
| Herkimer | Karen E. Ford | Still photos of tombstones I will do some look-ups if they are not too extensive. |
| Herkimer | Steven Knight | Public Records courthouse & library lookups and copying., Obituaries, Gravestone pictures. Reimbursement may be required. Pictures of gravestones only from cemeteries where grave location can be established. No 'hunting' for a grave. |
| Kings | Jahongir Usmanov | Search of tombstone (photo) in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn. Look ups of Vital Information in Municipal Archives. |
| Kings | Cara Kantz | Gravestone pictures. Green-Wood Cemetery, Washington Cemetery, Holy Cross Cemetery. |
| Kings | Jim Murray | I research birth and death certificates at the Municipal Archives in lower Manhattan (New York County) on request from people seeking information on their relatives. Please note, I incur a $5 charge from the Municipal Archives to use the microfiche machine to access these records. |
| Kings | Sharon Siciliano | Digital photos of tombstones at Cemetery of the Resurrection and Oceanview Cemetery Staten Island, New York (Richmond County); Brooklyn (Kings County) Naturalizaton for the years 1865-1926. I only have access to the index for names beginning with Prager, Jacob B. and ending with Roff, Solomon, as I am participating in creating a computerized index. |
| Kings | Jessica Scheiber | Public Records courthouse lookups and copying. Can check Kings County Surrogates' Court records for wills and estate proceedings for anyone who died in Brooklyn. Please make sure the person you are looking for died in Brooklyn. If not, any records will not be in the Kings County Court records. Please give me their full name and exact date of death or at least the year, as many names are common. I will hand-copy whatever information is available and email the text to you, or if there is no record, I will inform you of that as well. |
| Livingston | Pamela Linfoot | Gravestone pictures. Will take digital photographs of ancestors headstones in cemteries located in Livingston County, New York. You must have a valid email address as the pictures will be emailed to you. It would be helpful if you knew the section and lot number, but not always necessary depending on the size of the cemetery. |
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