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From: "Rebecca Rector" <>
Subject: Re: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] St. Joseph's vital records
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:14:19 -0400
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Just want to clear up some mis-conceptions regarding the Catholic Church
vital record project. The American Canadian Genealogy Society has been
copying Catholic records throughout northern New England and upstate NY for
a number of years. There is a local coordinator in Albany who copies the
records when permission is received. (They are copied at each church, so the
records never leave the church property). He then solicits volunteers to
help computerize them. They are then sent to the main office in Manchester,
NH and they publish the books for sale. The records themselves are not
available online, though the list
of publications is at www.acgs.org. Look under Catalog. Many libraries
purchase the ones that pertain to their local area. I just noticed that
some are now available on CD.
These transcriptions take many months to complete, depending on the size
of the church and the number of volunteers, and the fact that some records
are in Latin or other languages. St. Joseph's Church was large and has a
lot of records. My understanding is that they are all copied, but volunteers
have not yet begun to work on them, so it will be months to a year before
these are completed.
Rebecca

> I also heard that all those records from St. Joseph's were going to be
transcribed on to a data base!
> Jeanne in KC

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