Saratoga County had similar Supreme Court records and some of
the records were found in their old vault in the basement. I think it
varies where some type of records are kept and it is county by county.
Unfortunately, different adminstrations and county clerks have made
decisions over the years what they thought they should do with those
"old, dusty things".  Because people know that I WILL check on these
things around Saratoga County, I have discovered what has happened,
or sometimes about to happen to old records. We really need to
be checking on these matters in the places we happen to be residing
and not wait until it is too late.

I am very happy to say that Kathy Marchione, our Saratoga County
Clerk, is very much into preserving records and has been busy
writing grants and obtaining the necessary materials and money
to protect what is here. Karen Campola, our County Historian, with
help of many volunteers has been organizing, computerizing and
making her office one of the best repositories for Saratoga County
information. After visiting many other offices around NYS and talking
to county and town clerks about their problems in getting their
municipality to spend the money and do the same, I am very proud
of the efforts in Saratoga County and hope that each of you who have
an interest in history should be one of many voices in helping these
people in getting this done.

Many of you may know that a couple of years ago, the Poorhouse
Records of Saratoga County were on eBay and a member of Heritage
Hunters bid quite a bit to rescue those. The person auctioning them
had purchased them in at an auction of an estate of a former county
employee.  That person led her to another book also in that estate
auction and we now have the "Children's" book which shows where
all of the children were placed who were orphaned or surrendered by
their families in the early 1900's.

This is happening everywhere now and we really need to get involved.
I contact NYS Archives and get them involved with towns where records
are about to be thrown out or stored in old buildings.

God Bless
Ruth Ann in Saratoga, NY
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On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 11:21:09 -0400 Daryl Holmes <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> On 10 Oct 1889, a Special Term of the Supreme Court was being held at
> the Courthouse in Buffalo (Erie), NY.  Does anyone know where
> transcripts of that court session might be found?
>
> Trying to determine why a particular judgment was rendered against
> my ancestors' land on that date...
>
> -daryl
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