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| County | Volunteer | Act of Kindness |
|---|---|---|
| All | Sue | All Federal Census. |
| Bronx | Tony Sasso | Vital Records ONLY Births up to 1909 Deaths up to 1948 Marriages up to 1936. |
| Bronx | Robert S. Vail | Vital Record lookups in the NY Times from 1851 to 2003. |
| Broome | Mary Canzler | I only take photos of grave markers if the requester can tell me what cemetery to look in. I do not do Broome County research. Please do not ask. |
| Cattaraugus | Doug Brooks | Gravestone pictures. Crawford and Calvary cemeteries in Salamanca, NY. |
| Cayuga | Bill Brahney | Still photos of tombstones. Lookups in Auburn City Directories |
| Cayuga | Roger Phillips | Still photos of headstones for cemeteries in southeastern Cayuga County, NY, towns of Moravia, Locke, Sempronius, Summerhill and Niles. Auburn and north are out of my scope so please do not ask... |
| Chautauqua | Darcy Crickard | Still photos of tombstones LAKEVIEW CEMETERY in JAMESTOWN ONLY (April thru October - depending on weather). One trip per month to cemetery. Must supply plot location. Digital pictures will be sent by e-mail. Also willing to do 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 | Tim Rodabaugh | Obituary from newspapers housed at the Steele Memorial Library(some townships are not included in the Elmira newspapers). Obituaries as we know them today generally started around 1900. Complete date of death or at least month & year needed. All copies will be sent via regular mail. Will expect reimbursement for copies & postage. |
| 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 |
| Chenango | Chester N Shew | Still photos of tombstones Most of Chenango County. Pictures of tombstones and recording inscription in as far as possible. Send as much information about individual/s as you can. Will need cemetery name or town located in. |
| Clinton | Donald J. Cosgro | Obituaries., Gravestone pictures., Reimbursement may be required. Have 1926, 1929 Troy, Cohoes, Watervliet, Green Island, City Directories, Can do lookups. Cemeteries within a ten mile radius of City of Plattsburgh NY. Unsure, please use google maps |
| Cortland | Laura S. Dellert | Still photos of tombstones, Public Records lookups and copying I frequent the Historical Society, they have a very large research library! I will visit cemeteries, library, and court house. Other requests considered. |
| Cortland | Marlene Parks | Obituaries if date of death is known |
| Delaware | Doris Warner | Public Records (library) lookups and copying, Obituaries, Gravestone pictures. I will be able to do newspaper lookups in the Catskill Mountain News in Margaretville. I will do gravestone pictures in the towns of Middletown / Margaretville, Roxbury Andes and Delhi. I will consider other acts of kindness and complete if at all possible. |
| Delaware | Glen LePinnet | Videotaping Cemeteries, Still photos of tombstones. |
| Delaware | Chester N Shew | Still photos of tombstones Most of Delaware County Photos of tombstone and recording inscriptions in as much as possible given condition of stone. Send as much info as you can of the individual/s you are interested in. Also need to know name of cemetery or town located in. |
| Dutchess | Steve Taylor | Obituary lookups in Poughkeepsie newspaper |
| Dutchess | Mary Kate Pendergast | Still photos of tombstones I can look for, and/or photograph, tombstones in St Joachim's cemeteries in Beacon, NY |
| Dutchess | Laurie | Public Records (library) lookups and copying. |
| 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 | Mary | Obituaries in Tonawanda News and its predecessors - need specific name and approximate date of death (month and year at the very least). Also "Civil War Veterans of the Tonawandas." Stuart R. Brown, The Historical Society of the Tonawandas, Inc, 1964 - alphabetical listing and some biographies. |
| Erie | Candy Ditkowski | I will do still digital photos of tombstones/cemeteries in the areas of 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. I can do photos from May through October. I may be willing to drive further throughout the county if necessary and for cost of mileage. |
| Essex | Miller | Schroon, Ticonderoga, Minerva only! (summer months will extend to Moriah, Port Henry and Crown Point). Can not do research myself but will offer leads on finding local records for birth, marriage, death, cemetery and military. Digital cemetery photos by email. Requests, specific and concise only! Please be patient, 2 children in tow. |
| Fulton | Diane Stewart | Still photos of tombstones, Public Records lookups and copying. |
| Genesee | Bea McManis | Still photos of tombstones, Public Records lookups and copying Still photos of tombstones in Batavia, NY. I will do lookups of public records and copying. Ask about reimbursements. |
| Herkimer | Sandi Gates | Look ups and cemetery pictures for the Town of Ohio ONLY, Herkimer Co., NY |
| Herkimer | Faith & Ross Eckler | Still photos of tombstones and Public Records lookups and copying 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 | Robert S. Vail | Vital Record lookups in the NY Times from 1851 to 2003. |
| Kings | Tony Sasso | Vital Records ONLY Births up to 1909 Deaths up to 1948 Marriages up to 1936. |
| 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. |
| Lewis | Patricia Regan | Obituaries. Will help with brickwall in Lewis County NY. |
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