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Death Notices Appearing in Lansingburgh Newspapers 1787 - 1895 This page was last updated 21 Mar 2015 |
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Death Notices Appearing in Lansingburgh Newspapers 1787 - 1895 This page was last updated 21 Mar 2015 |
An index to 9,682 death notices that were published in ten different Lansingburgh, New York, newspapers from 1787 to 1895 was created by staff at the Troy Public Library in 1938 through 1939. The Troy Irish Genealogy Society (TIGS) was allowed by the Troy Library to scan the two books of these important records so they could be made available on-line for genealogy researchers. To see these records click here.
Lansingburgh, for those not in the Capital District Region, was the first chartered village in Rensselaer County and was settled around 1763. In 1900 Lansingburgh became part of the City of Troy, New York.
The ten different Lansingburgh newspapers were:
An informative article at the TIGS website, "Newspapering in Rensselaer County", identifies which of the above newspapers are available, on microfilm or hard copy, at the Troy Library.
These historical records are extremely important to genealogy researchers as the bulk of the records predate New York's 1880 law that required reporting of deaths. Outside of church death and burial records and newspaper accounts, you will not find these records anywhere else.
In addition to the name of the deceased, other entries show the age, date of death, names of newspapers that reported the death along with the newspaper date, page and column number where you will find the death notice in the appropriate newspaper.
It is important to note that the residence for the deceased is not just Lansingburgh, but may cover all areas of New York State, other States and even foreign countries.
Hopefully you will find some of your ancestors in this new data base or in the various other data series of almost 300,000 Irish AND Non-Irish names on the TIGS website.
