TROY IRISH GENEALOGY SOCIETY
Troy, New York

Troy Irish Genealogy Meeting Minutes
St. Agnes Cemetery, August 15, 2013

Present: Timothy Stone, Kelly Grimaldi, Kathy Buckley, Lizette Strait, Gerri Sherry, Jan Sullivan, Bill McGrath, Kathleen Mazzrillo, Donna Vaughn, Gail Landrigan, Noreen Iacobucci, Heidi Klinowski

1. Call to Order:

President Tim Stone called the meeting to order. No new members present. List members total 275 and Face Book likes total 388.

Dues and Charter Document were discussed. A copy of the Charter was distributed for review. Members present agreed dues should remain the same and the Charter did not need amendment.

2. Treasurer’s Report

Lizette submitted the treasurer’s report that reads as follows:
The previous balance as of July 18, 2013: $3,600.48

Expenses: $150 7/15/2013, Ck# 1024 for St. Joseph’s and $185 7/28/2013 Ck#1025 for ACGS Publication RP149 & RP – 141.

Deposit $40.00. July balance was $3,305.48. Petty cash is $21.63 making total assets: $3,327.11.

Total paid members: 83 - 2 new members.

3. Project Updates

Bill McGrath gave the project updates as follows:

Church Memorials include Lansingburgh Methodist and St. John’s Lutheran .

Area casualties from WWII are being documented. There are nearly 2000 names in 8 separate data series. The database records include surname and hometown for soldiers killed in action, wounded, missing, POWs. The information was sent to Jeanne on August 5, 2013.

State Street Burial Grounds database went on line on August 2, 2013. This new database was mentioned in Eastman’s Genealogy Newsletter on August 15, 2013.

St. Mary’s Cemetery Troy Book #5 is in process with 159 pages received from Jeanne. Of the 134 pages sent to transcribers, 116 have been completed.

4. New Business

Donna Vaughn reminded everyone the 10th anniversary of TIGS is in September. Several suggestions were made on how best to celebrate the decade old Society. It was decided that a volunteer work group be put together for a September 20th and 21st monument documentation workshop to be held at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Troy. The oldest part of the cemetery contains stones marking the graves of mostly Irish immigrants and the information on interments has been lost. The work group will photograph the stones and transcribers will record the inscriptions and enter them into a searchable spreadsheet. St. Agnes Cemetery will provide lunch for volunteers. Donna will handle the sign up process.

Liz inquired about the process of answering requests for lookups in the two recently purchased books noted in the treasurer’s report. It was agreed that requests for lookups be limited to 3 names per list member and full names and approximated dates will be needed. After 30 days the books will be donated to the Troy Library.

6. Next Meeting & Adjournment

The next meeting will be at Moscatiello’s. With no further business to discuss, the meeting was adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,
Kelly Grimaldi,
Secretary