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Rensselaer County Lookup Volunteers This page was last updated 31 October 2011. |
Here is a list of Rensselaer County reference materials and the email addresses of the owners who have kindly volunteered to do lookups. The key word here is VOLUNTEERED. No one here is obligated to do this. They all do this as a favour. Now, 99% of you know this and do not need these guidelines; we aren't forgetting this! However, for the other 1% [smile], we offer these guidelines, because not only do they help our valuable volunteers, but also they will help YOU get the results you want when you approach fellow genies online, at this site and at other sites.
If ANY of you have any Rensselaer County reference books, CDs, etc. and are willing to look up information for others, please email Lin Van Buren. The volume of traffic you can expect is not prohibitively high. In the first two months that I was a lookup volunteer, I received only two requests!
Please follow these guidelines when requesting a lookup:
BE SPECIFIC - Please request a lookup for a specific person in a specific reference work that is offered. Blanket requests for a surname or requests for information on an individual without specifying a reference are likely to be ignored - and justifiably.
USE THE SUBJECT LINE - Please type RENSSELAER CO. LOOKUP in caps in the subject line of the message. This will ensure that your request is not accidentally overlooked or deleted.
LIMIT YOUR REQUEST - Please limit your request to one or two specific names. Requests for ALL the marriages on a surname of Brown or Jones or Smith will probably be ignored - again, with justification.
DISABLE EMAIL BLOCKING - Please don't forget to turn off any email blocking mechanisms you may have activated. It is frustrating for our researchers to go to the trouble to look up your requests, type them up in an email, send them to you and then seconds later receive an automated response saying that the email has been blocked because the sender is not on an approved list.
SAY THANK YOU - Please don't forget to THANK your volunteer for his or her time and trouble.
| 1912 Albany, Troy and Schenectady Blue Book | Dick Malkin |
| Andersonville Prison Records | Kevin Frye |
| Blatchford Memorial II | Marilyn Hendricks |
| Cast in Stone - Selected Albany, Rensselaer and Saratoga County Burials | Debby Masterson |
| Center Brunswick United Methodist Church - Vital Records, 1866-1970 | Michelle Mavigliano |
| Early Families of Petersburgh, New York | Tina Ordone |
| The Empire State in Three Centuries [Surname Index] | Nancy Hauser |
| Epitaphs from the Only Stephentown on Earth | Tina Ordone |
| First Presbyterian Church of Brunswick - Vital Records, 1816-1887 | Michelle Mavigliano |
| Gilead Lutheran Church - Baptisms 1777-1886 and some adult baptisms 1877-1879 |
Michelle Mavigliano |
| Greenbush Reformed Church, East Greenbush, NY - Baptisms 1788-1846, Marriages 1788-1910 |
Debby Masterson |
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History of the City of Troy, from the Expulsion of the Mohegan Indians to the Present Centennial Year of the Independence of the United States of America, 1876, by A. J. Weise, M. A. |
Joan Howe |
| History of the Police Dept. of Troy, N.Y., including a Digest of the Lansingburgh Department - 668-name index |
Joan Howe |
| History of Rensselaer County, NY by Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester, 1880 | Trudy Millard Krause |
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History of the Seventeen Towns of Rensselaer County from the Colonization of the Manor of Rensselaerwyck to the Present Time, by A. J. Weise A. M., as published in the Troy Daily Times, Troy, N. Y.; J. M. Francis & Tucker, 1880. |
Lorna Frechette |
| Index of Awards on Claims of Soldiers of the War of 1812 | Darrell Thurman |
| Landmarks of Rensselaer County, NY | Robert L. Miller |
Military records (please specify which record in your requests)
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 Volunteer has resigned. |
| Nassau Reformed Church, Nassau, NY - Baptisms 1804-1880 | Lin Van Buren |
| New York in the Revolution as Colony and State, with Listings of Revolutionary War Soldiers from NY |
Trudy Millard Krause |
| Official Roster of the 169th New York Volunteers (US Civil War) | Bob Farrell |
| The Palatine Families of New York 1710, Volumes I and II by Henry Z Jones, Jr. |
Lin Van Buren |
| More Palatine Families (Some Immigrants to the Middle Colonies 1717-1776 and Their European Origins) by Henry Z Jones, Jr. |
Gary A. Craver |
| Polk's Troy City Directory, 1940 - contains Cohoes, Lansingburgh, Troy, Watervliet, Green Island and Waterford |
Raymond W. LeMay III |
| A Resourceful People: A Pictorial History of Rensselaer County, New York | Rita O'Brien |
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Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church Cemetery, Troy, Rensselaer County, NY - 5,591 burials 1844-2007 |
Stephanie Moore |
| Tiashoke Reformed Church, Buskirk's Bridge, Hoosick, NY - Baptisms 1792-1863, Marriages 1793-1866 |
Lin Van Buren |
| Troy & Rensselaer Co., NY: A History by Rutherford Hayner, 3 Vols, 1925 |
Joan Howe |
| Troy City Directory 1960 | Ginger Atchinson |
| Troy Telephone Directory 1944 | Ginger Atchinson |
| Troy's One Hundred Years 1789-1889 by Arthur James Weise, M. A., 1891 |
Joan Howe |
| Vital Records of Schodack by Lauretta P. Harris 1970 (Births, Baptisms from 1770; Marriages; 1800 US Census, 1830 US Census, 1850 US Census; Deaths; Gravestone inscriptions) |
Lin Van Buren |
| West Stephentown Baptist Church - Historical Record | Trudy Millard Krause |
| Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Rensselaerwyck and Greenbush, West Sand Lake, NY - Baptisms 1785-1868, Marriages 1816-1858 |
Lin Van Buren |
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Lin Van Buren