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 To
genealogists,
cemeteries contain some of the most valuable and
personal information available about ancestors. Every day older
cemeteries and family burial grounds are lost to nature and the
history they contain is gone forever. Even for current cemeteries,
records are sometimes hard to locate and have not kept up with other
online resources. Often when the information is available it is
incomplete and impersonal. Our goal with this project is to catalog
each cemetery in Berne and post the information online in a personal
and dignified manner. The Cemetery Project members will locate
each cemetery and provide the following information:
- The name,
address, descriptive location, GPS coordinates, known history
and current condition of the cemetery.
- The name,
dates, transcription, GPS coordinates and other information for
each headstone.
- A photograph
of each headstone.
This information
will be compiled and posted on this web site as it is made available.
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We have
found two resources that have been very helpful in getting
this project off the ground. The first is from the Dutch
Settlers Society and is a listing of "Burying Ground
Inscriptions, Town of Berne, Albany County, NY, Compiled By
Lieut. Col. William V. Hannay". This listing was completed
during the years 1926 through 1936 to record the descriptions
of the fast disappearing field burying grounds, and to record
the locations of veterans graves in Albany County. This is
a very comprehensive list that describes the name and location
of the grounds as well as every headstone. Since this early
listing contains the inscriptions as recorded in the early
1900's we are using it to fill in information that may no
longer be readable.
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Our second
source is the work completed in 1984 by the Old Berne Conservation
Board. They did a very through job of locating virtually every
cemetery and small family burial ground in the township. Each
of these cemeteries where keyed to a section of a USGS topographical
quadrangle. This listing will be the starting point for this
project and we wish to thank the members of this board in
advance for the foresight and hard work that went into preparing
this list.
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- Douglas Fraser
- Charles Gardner
- Charles Garry
- Daniel Geer
- Lawrence Jackson
- Hubert Miller
- Robert Mohr
- Michael Vincent
- Kurt Zeh
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Mike Vincent, Barbara Bolster-Barrett
and Hal Miller at Lyon Burying Ground
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We have 71 cemeteries and 3170 headstone records.
Cemeteries:
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