Cliff Lamere's Websites

This revision March 3, 2020

Albany & Eastern New York Genealogy  - emphasizes genealogy of an eight county area around Albany, NY.  It contains over 1300 links, including more than 500 to online records, and over 800 to webpages that are historical or contain information that will help you be a better, and more accurate, genealogist.  About 200 of the webpages were constructed by me, many of them with information contributed by other genealogists.  Those are still online.  As webpages are moved or deleted on other websites, the links get broken.  The last update of the website was in 2005, so a great many of the links are now broken.  However, I have not deleted the website because you may be able to find the webpages that the broken links could not find.  Just copy a broken link, then go to the Wayback Machine (Internet Archive) and paste it into the appropriate place near the top of that webpage.  1) Hit Enter and wait for the Wayback Machine to search through over 400 billion saved webpages.  You will either get a timeline or a message saying that the webpage had not been saved.  2) Click on a year of the timeline which contains vertical bars.  3) Go just below the timeline to the calendar.  4)  Find a date which has a colored background.  The webpage was saved on that date.  5)  Put the cursor on that date.  A box will open up.  Click the number (which is the time on a 24-hour clock when it was saved).  You will be taken to the webpage as it appeared on that date. 

Albany & Eastern New York Genealogy - updated version of 2016

This is a partial revision of the original site.  It has fewer broken links, but it only has links to the records, not to History and other topics. 

Bethlehem Central School District (Delmar, NY) - contains many webpages about living and deceased high school teachers, some showing yearbook pictures.  The site also specializes in providing obituaries and other information about deceased teachers (over 200), other staff members, and high school graduates (over 1700).

New Lebanon Central School District - consists of two webpages.  1)  Information about deceased graduates (over 500) including obituaries for most.  2)  Information about deceased staff members (over 100) including teachers and non-teachers.

Choir of the Albany Reformed Church  - The name of the church was changed in 1938 to The First Church in Albany.  It was founded in 1642.  Includes a complete list of anthems and scores owned by the church in 2009.

Grandpa Cliff's Science Website for Teenagers  - using photographs, the goal is to interest teenagers in science and show them how they can analyze what they see in their own environment.

Nijmegen - Dutch sister city of Albany, NY.  This website contains much information about the relationship between these two cities right after World War II, and how the connection came about.  Lacking a home page, start with "MayorCorningMarch.htm" to get some background.  The other links are mainly newspaper articles from the 1940s and 1950s, some with photos.  The contents were put online to help a Dutch researcher.  They have not been organized for viewing by non-researchers.

Pronunciation of Foreign Languages for Singers  -  Learn to pronounce German, Italian, Latin and American Spanish.  Videos of familiar melodies being sung in the foreign languages are provided.  Below the videos can be found the foreign words so that you can sing along.  Pronunciation sites often confuse American singers because they explain the British pronunciation of vowels without saying so.  Therefore, the American reader will misinterpret what they say.  For example, when such a site writes that the 'o' in a particular word should be pronounced as in the English word dot, a Britisher is thinking dawt, while an American will be thinking daht.  These pronunciation pages explain how words would sound in American English. 

Skip Parsons' Riverboat Jazz Band  - This site features a band that specializes in dixieland and traditional jazz.  It has been playing continuously in Albany, NY and the surrounding region since 1956.  It played continuously at the Fountain Restaurant in Albany, NY one weekend (Friday and Saturday) each month for over 40 years.  [Skip Parsons died April 21, 2022 at the age of 86.]

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Fulton History has 51,685,714 pages on Dec 1, 2022.On June 12, 2020 he had 48,156,000 newspaper pages online.  In 29½ months, he added 3,529,714 newspaper pages (119,651 pages per month, or 3988 pages per day (check calculations).

Miscellaneous Webpages

Using the Fulton History Newspaper Site - extensive information provided so you can make more successful searches

Requiem for my parents  -  listen to the composition composed in their memory

U.S. Flags  - showing how the flag changed as new states were added

Kudzu in Albany, NY  - an invasive weed discovered in Albany, NY in Nov 2005

Fort Albany & Fort Frederick at Albany, NY - a great amount of in-depth research was done, but the very extensive work (about 50 computer screens in length) was never completed.  See also an article which refers to my work many times. (link)

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Albany, NY