Finding your Past: Genealogical Gleanings with the Albany Grave Digger

A blog that discusses Albany, New York area history. Areas of focus include historical and genealogical research, documentation, ethnicity, cemeteries, gravestone restoration, and historic landmarks.

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18 August 2015

Albany's Veterans Memorials, part II

This post is a follow up to a February article regarding the numerous Veterans memorials that are spread throughout ...

16 August 2015

Upcoming Genealogy Event

Coming up soon is a genealogy event hosted by the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society in Albany at the New York State Library o...

15 August 2015

Joseph Wagner & Maria Koreman, bio & gravesite restoration

In mid Spring, I took a ride to Our Lady Help of Christians cemetery in Glenmont to do a quick check on the family plots to see if the...

11 July 2015

Reclaiming Lost Relatives Gravesites

As I begin to wind down my projects at Albany Rural Cemetery with rehabbing my ancestors gravesites that have fallen into disrepair; today I...

Irish Parish Records Online

The hottest topic on the genealogical circuit today is about Irish parish records going online for free. Yes, the National Library of Irelan...

27 June 2015

Old Homestead

A lot of us talk about what it was like going to grandma or grandpa's house when we were kids. But how many people can say they know the...

Photos from the New Mount Ida Clean-Up

About two weeks ago I helped out on a tombstone cleaning and restoration project at the New Mount Ida Cemetery on Pinewoods Avenue in Troy. ...

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