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 Updated 22 Jul 2014
Baptisms Updated 4 Dec 2017	Bibles Updated 23 Jan 2014	Biographies Updated 24 Mar 2016
Births Updated 16 July 2011	Business, Commerce & Industry Updated 12 July 2011	Cemetery Database Over 93,000 names! Updated 16 Feb 2018
Census Transcriptions Updated 16 July 2011	Church & Synagogue Addresses Updated 28 March 2012	Church Records Updated 10 Nov 2016
Cities, Towns & Villages Updated 17 July 2014	Clerks Updated 7 Nov 2013	Colonial Records Pre-1776 records for the future Rensselaer County
County Mailing List Moderated by Pat Connors	Deaths Updated 23 Feb 2016	Deeds Updated 16 July 2011
Diaries and Letters Updated 1 July 2010	Dutch Genealogy Helpful links to Dutch research. Created 22 Apr 2014	Freedom of Information Laws How FOI legislation can help YOU
Funeral Homes Updated 16 July 2011	Genealogical Societies Updated 8 Nov 2013	Historians Updated 23 Sep 2015
Historical Societies Updated 8 Nov 2013	Huguenot Genealogy French Protestant forebears	Irish Genealogy Helpful links to Irish research. Updated 7 Jan 2014
Libraries Updated 9 Nov 2013	Lineage Societies Updated 10 Nov 2013	Lookups Updated 10 Jan 2014
Loyalist Records Updated 1 Aug 2011	Maps Updated 1 Aug 2011	Marriages
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 08 Mar 2016	Origins of Place Names Updated 1 May 2010	Palatine Genealogy Germans who came in 1710
Photo Gallery Updated 31 Jan 2017	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 3 Sep 2016	State Resources Accessing NY State records	Surname Registry Updated 26 Feb 2015
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 23 Feb 2016

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.