While I was looking for the ca 1880's death record for one of my
husband's ancestors in the Mexico Town Offices (Oswego County), I
noticed on the list the record for one of his ancestors who lived over
in Hastings. The clerk said that this death may have been registered in
Mexico because the county old folk's home was in the town Mexico
(perhaps she said poor house, I don't remember exactly now, though from
the census I KNOW the poor house was there). The moral here is to look
also in the location of the county old age home.
When the death record I wanted wasn't there in the town records, the
clerk said to try the village records in the village offices (it was
there). Now I knew that the village was not the town, but totally forgot
that that would extend to keeping vital records as well. The moral here
is to look in both the town & village records when they have the same
name.
Mabry Benson with lots of ancestor-in-laws in New York
in Oswego Co: Beaulieu, Benson, Bills, Dimon, Gothier, Hosmer, Howard,
Nichols, North, Pruyn, Rider, & Wilder
in Jefferson Co: Orvis
in Otsego Co: Nichols & Matteson
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