What
treasures can I share today?
How
about church records recently received from a church in New York?
I
called Bethesda Episcopal Church in Saratoga Springs, New York, last month. I was interested to see if they still held
any records from 1877-1900.
I
was specifically looking for records for my husband’s great grandfather and his
wife, Thomas C. Hall, Cora E. Brown Hall and their son Charles S.
Hall.
While
we can find some records online, we all know, many are still not
available. Some are indexed, but even
viewing an index or transcription is not the same as looking at the actual
record. There could be any number of errors
on an index or transcription.
I
did my happy dance this morning when I received an email from the church with 4 records attached!!!
Images
of actual church record pages from church registers of Baptism, Marriage, Confirmation
and Burial.
Here
they are: Please click on any image to enlarge it.
MARRIAGE
OF THOMAS C. HALL & CORA EMMA BROWN
on 5 Feb 1877
BAPTISM
OF CHARLES SCHUYLER HALL
16 Jun 1878
CONFIRMATION
OF CHARLES SCHUYLER HALL
28 Apr 1892
BURIAL
OF THOMAS CORNELIUS HALL
13 Jan 1897
I
already had a marriage date & and the marriage certificate for Thomas &
Cora. You can read all about that find
here:
CORA’S
SCRAPBOOK–Her wedding cake & marriage to Thomas C. Hall–1877, New York
But,
this image of the church record for their marriage was new to me and gives one
more piece of evidence to this fact.
What
I didn’t have was the other 3 documents – the Baptism and Confirmation for
Charles S. Hall and the Burial record for Thomas. Those will now be added to my Legacy database and sourced and added to my Ancestry tree as well.
What
records have you recently received that made you do a happy dance? I’d love to
hear about them.
Have
you considered calling or emailing a church, funeral home or cemetery to obtain
records or information? This is not my
first time doing so and I have found it to be very rewarding.
TIP: Keep a record of any calls or emails. Whether you use your genealogy program for
this (I use Legacy), or a spreadsheet, notepad or some other method. It’s important to keep the date and make note
of what you said, who you spoke with, who you emailed etc.
When or if I receive information as I did in this case, I not
only send an email of thanks, I write a thank you note and many times include a
gift card.
If you are related to or connected to anyone in this blog post,
please get in touch. Let’s exchange
information.
Michigan Girl
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