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Welcome to the RENSSELAER COUNTY GENWEB Genealogy and History of Rensselaer County, NY This website was last updated Monday, 16 April 2012. |
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You have arrived at the Rensselaer County, New York GenWeb site, where you are very welcome indeed!
I'm your Co-ordinator, Lin Van Buren. Everything you see here in our fully searchable, free, 2,400-page database was created, and is still being created, by volunteers. We hope you'll find YOUR ancestors here! And we hope that you yourself will share source records you have by simply emailing your transcriptions of them to me in plain-text form. It is through valuable contributions from people like YOU - every single one of you - that this site can grow and become even more helpful to genealogical researchers from all over the world whose ancestors, as mine did, used to live in Rensselaer County, New York. |
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Rensselaer County, NY was created 7 February 1791 from Albany County, NY.
It was named for the Dutch pearl merchant and first patroon
Kiliaen van Rensselaer (c1585-1643) of Amsterdam,
who never went to America.
Table of Contents
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About GenWeb World, North America, US, NY and Rensselaer Co |
Advice for Beginners For those new to genealogy |
African Americans Updated 16 July 2011 |
| Baptisms Updated 16 July 2011 |
Bibles Updated 16 July 2011 |
Biographies Updated 11 July 2011 |
| Births Updated 16 July 2011 |
Business, Commerce & Industry Updated 12 July 2011 |
Cemetery Database Over 93,000 names!  |
| Census Transcriptions Updated 16 July 2011 |
Church & Synagogue Addresses Updated 28 March 2012  |
Church Records Updated 29 Jan 2012 |
| Cities, Towns & Villages Updated 17 July 2011 |
Clerks Updated 18 July 2011 |
Colonial Records Pre-1776 records for the future Rensselaer County |
| County Mailing List Moderated by Pat Connors |
Deaths Updated 16 July 2011 |
Deeds Updated 16 July 2011 |
| Diaries and Letters Updated 1 July 2010 |
Freedom of Information Laws How FOI legislation can help YOU |
Funeral Homes Updated 16 July 2011 |
| Genealogical Societies Those whose scope includes Rensselaer County |
Guest Book Let us know what you think! |
Historians Updated 20 July 2011 |
| Historical Societies Updated 20 July 2011 |
Huguenot Genealogy French Protestant forebears |
Irish Genealogy Helpful links to Irish research |
| Libraries Updated 1 Aug 2011 |
Lineage Societies Updated 1 Aug 2011 |
Lookups Updated 31 Oct 2011 |
| Loyalist Records Updated 1 Aug 2011 |
Maps Updated 1 Aug 2011 |
Marriages Updated 1 Aug 2011 |
| Mayflower Families Updated 21 July 2011 |
Municipal Historians Updated 20 July 2011 |
Native Americans Mahican, Schaghticoke and others |
| Naturalization Records Find your emigrant ancestor |
Newspaper Extracts Updated 13 July 2011 |
Newspapers Past and present |
| Obituaries Updated 29 Oct 2011 |
Origins of Place Names Updated 1 May 2010 |
Palatine Genealogy Germans who came in 1710 |
| Photo Gallery Updated 29 Oct 2011 |
Place Names Includes bodies of water |
Potpourri Updated 4 Aug 2011 |
| Queries Updated daily, by YOU! |
Rensselaerwyck Settlers 17th century |
Researchers for Hire Updated 16 Apr 2012 |
| Soldiers & Sailors Updated 11 July 2011 |
State Resources Accessing NY State records |
Surname Registry Updated 29 Jan 2012 |
| Tax Lists Hoosick and Schaghticoke for 1779 |
Tithes 1758-1771 |
Town and Village Clerks Updated 18 July 2011 |
| Town and Village Historians Updated 20 July 2011 |
Troy's 100 Years Covering 1789-1889 |
Vital Records Updated 6 Aug 2011 |
| Websites of Interest Updated 7 Aug 2011 |
Where to Write for Vital Records Updated 18 July 2011 |
Wills & Probate Updated 12 Sept 2011 |
Links to Rensselaer County's Neighbors
| Albany County, NY To the west of us, across the Hudson River |
Bennington County, VT To the northeast of us |
Berkshire County, MA To the east of us |
| Columbia County, NY To the south of us |
Saratoga County, NY To the northwest of us, across the Hudson River |
Washington County, NY To the north of us |
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