rensselaer.nygenweb.netRensselaer County, NY GenWeb site for genealogy and history

This website was last updated 21 March 2021 Welcome to the Rensselaer Co., NYGenWeb! I am your county coordinator, Debby Masterson . Please understand that I only have information about my own ancestry. If the information you seek is not on this website I will try to suggest alternate places to look, but that is all I can do. I live in Florida and do not have access to sources in Rensselaer County. There are professional researchers familiar with county resources that will be glad to assist you for a fee. PLEASE NOTE: If you find a link that doesn’t work, or you email someone and your mail bounces, please email me and let me know so I can address the problem. Thanks! Search This Site: Indexed by the FreeFind Search Engine . This search engine is "re-spidered" weekly, usually on a Monday. New York state, showing Rensselaer County in red 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 came to America. Table of Contents About GenWeb World, North America, US, NY and Rensselaer Co Advice for Beginners For those new to genealogy African Americans Baptisms Bibles Biographies Births Business, Commerce & Industry Cemetery Database Census Transcriptions Church & Synagogue Addresses Church Records Cities, Towns & Villages Clerks Colonial Records Pre-1776 records for the future Rensselaer County County Mailing List Moderated by Pat Connors Deaths Deeds Diaries and Letters Dutch Genealogy Helpful links to Dutch research. Freedom of Information Laws How FOI legislation can help YOU Funeral Homes Genealogical Societies Historians Historical Societies Huguenot Genealogy French Protestant forebears Irish Genealogy Helpful links to Irish research. Libraries Lineage Societies Lookups Loyalist Records Maps Marriages Mayflower Families Municipal Historians Native Americans Mahican, Schaghticoke and others Naturalization Records Find your emigrant ancestor Newspaper Extracts Newspapers Past and present Obituaries Origins of Place Names Palatine Genealogy Germans who came in 1710 Photo Gallery Place Names Includes bodies of water Potpourri Queries Updated daily, by YOU! Rensselaerwyck Settlers 17th century Researchers for Hire Soldiers & Sailors State Resources Accessing NY State records Surname Registry Tax Lists Hoosick and Schaghticoke for 1779 Tithes 1758-1771 Town and Village Clerks Town and Village Historians Troy’s 100 Years Covering 1789-1889 Vital Records Websites of Interest Where to Write for Vital Records Wills & Probate 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 In Memory Linda Jeane Van Buren August 30, 1946 - March 12, 2013 Lin was the Rensselaer Co. Coordinator from 2002 to 2013. It is largely because of her love of genealogy and dedication to this website that the Rensselaer Co. GenWeb is one of the best websites at GenWeb. She will be missed, but never forgotten by the numerous people from all over the world that she has helped find their ancestors. POP-UPs: This website accepts no advertising. Any pop-up advertisements you may see while visiting this site are not affiliated in any way with this website. We are sorry that you have to put up with these annoying pop-ups, and if there were anything we could do about it, we would. © Copyright 1996-2016 Rensselaer County, NYGenWeb Ownership of content remains with each contributor and author of materials herein. Original material posted here must not be published, in print or online, for commercial purposes without the prior WRITTEN consent of the person who holds the copyright. In law, material is "published" every time there is a "hit" on a website where it appears. All rights are reserved. Webmaster: Debby Masterson web...