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Welcome to the RENSSELAER COUNTY GENWEB Genealogy and History of Rensselaer County, NY This website was last updated Monday, 6 July 2009. |
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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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What church in Rensselaer County, NY closed its doors on 31 May 2009, after 119 years? To guess, email your answers to Lin. Click here for past quiz answers. |
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 10 Feb 2009 |
| Baptisms Updated 5 Feb 2009 |
Bibles Updated 30 Jan 2009 |
Biographies Updated 2 Feb 2009 |
| Births Updated 6 Feb 2009 |
Business, Commerce & Industry Updated 3 Apr 2009 |
Cemetery Database Over 93,000 names!  |
| Census Transcriptions Updated 1 Apr 2009 |
Church & Synagogue Addresses Updated 7 Mar 2009 |
Church Records Updated 5 Feb 2009 |
| Cities, Towns & Villages Updated 3 Apr 2009 |
Clerks Updated 17 Mar 2009 |
Colonial Records Pre-1776 records for the future Rensselaer County |
| County Mailing List Moderated by Pat Connors |
Deaths Updated 6 Feb 2009 |
Deeds Updated 31 Jan 2009 |
| Diaries and Letters Updated 1 Feb 2009 |
Freedom of Information Laws How FOI legislation can help YOU |
Funeral Homes Updated 6 Feb 2009 |
| Genealogical Societies Those whose scope includes Rensselaer County |
Guest Book Let us know what you think! |
Historians Updated 17 Mar 2009 |
| Historical Societies Updated 28 May 2009  |
Huguenot Genealogy French Protestant forebears |
Irish Genealogy Helpful links to Irish research |
| Libraries Updated 7 Feb 2009 |
Lineage Societies New 6 Mar 2009; updated 2 Apr 2009 |
Lookups Updated 25 May 2009 |
| Loyalist Records Updated 31 Jan 2009 |
Maps Updated 2 Feb 2009 |
Marriages Updated 5 Feb 2009 |
| Mayflower Families Updated 31 Jan 2009 |
Municipal Historians Updated 17 Mar 2009 |
Native Americans Mahican, Schaghticoke and others |
| Naturalization Records Find your emigrant ancestor |
Newspaper Extracts An 1860 time capsule - plus 1782! |
Newspapers Past and present |
| Obituaries Updated 27 May 2009 |
Origins of Place Names Updated 1 Feb 2009 |
Palatine Genealogy Germans who came in 1710 |
| Photo Gallery Updated 26 May 2009 |
Place Names Includes bodies of water |
Potpourri Updated 22 Feb 2009 |
| Queries Updated daily, by YOU! |
Rensselaerwyck Settlers 17th century |
Researchers for Hire Updated 11 Nov 2008 |
| Soldiers & Sailors Updated 2 Apr 2009 |
State Resources Accessing NY State records |
Surname Registry Updated 28 May 2009 |
| Tax Lists Hoosick and Schaghticoke for 1779 |
Tithes 1758-1771 Under construction |
Town and Village Clerks Updated 17 Mar 2009 |
| Town and Village Historians Updated 17 Mar 2009 |
Troy's 100 Years Covering 1789-1889 |
Vital Records Updated 1 Feb 2009 |
| Websites of Interest Updated 22 Feb 2009 |
Where to Write for Vital Records Updated 17 Mar 2009 |
Wills & Probate Updated 10 Feb 2009 |
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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