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Welcome to the RENSSELAER COUNTY GENWEB Genealogy and History of Rensselaer County, NY This website was last updated Tuesday, 2 September 2008. |
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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 e-mailing 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 18 Feb 2007 |
| Baptisms Updated 12 Nov 2007 |
Bibles Updated 1 Mar 2008 |
Biographies Updated 11 Apr 2008 |
| Births Updated 12 Nov 2007 |
Business, Commerce & Industry Updated 18 Feb 2007 |
Cemetery Database Over 93,000 names!  |
| Census Transcriptions Updated 26 May 2008 |
Church & Synagogue Addresses Updated 1 Mar 2008 |
Church Records Updated 20 Feb 2008 |
| Cities, Towns & Villages Updated 31 Aug 2007 |
Clerks Updated 17 Mar 2008 |
Colonial Records Pre-1776 records for the future Rensselaer County |
| County Mailing List Moderated by Pat Connors |
Deaths Updated 10 Mar 2007 |
Deeds Updated 31 Aug 2007 |
| Diaries and Letters Updated 17 Dec 2007 |
Freedom of Information Laws How FOI legislation can help YOU |
Funeral Homes Updated 15 July 2007 |
| Genealogical Societies Those whose scope includes Rensselaer County |
Guest Book Let us know what you think! |
Historians Updated 15 Oct 2007 |
| Historical Societies Updated 23 June 2008  |
Huguenot Genealogy French Protestant forebears |
Irish Genealogy Helpful links to Irish research |
| Libraries Updated 18 Feb 2007 |
Lookups Updated 11 Jan 2008 |
Loyalist Records Updated 18 Feb 2007 |
| Maps Updated 4 Apr 2007 |
Marriages Updated 20 Feb 2008 |
Mayflower Families Updated 25 June 2008 |
| Municipal Historians Updated 27 May 2008 |
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 12 June 2008 |
| Origins of Place Names Updated 18 Feb 2007 |
Palatine Genealogy Germans who came in 1710 |
Photo Gallery Updated 20 Feb 2008 |
| Place Names Includes bodies of water |
Potpourri Updated 1 June 2008 |
Queries Updated daily, by YOU! |
| Rensselaerwyck Settlers 17th century |
Researchers for Hire Updated 21 June 2007 |
Soldiers & Sailors Updated 9 Apr 2008 |
| State Resources Accessing NY State records |
Surname Registry Updated 31 May 2008 |
Tax Lists Hoosick and Schaghticoke for 1779 |
| Town and Village Clerks Updated 17 Mar 2008 |
Town and Village Historians Updated 15 Oct 2007 |
Troy's 100 Years Covering 1789-1889 |
| Vital Records Updated 10 Mar 2007 |
Websites of Interest Updated 10 Mar 2007 |
Where to Write for Vital Records Updated 17 Mar 2008 |
| Wills & Probate Updated 1 Apr 2008 |
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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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