Rensselaer County Church Records
Rensselaer County
Church Records

This page was last updated 23 March 2021

We encourage you to check church records of nearby counties, as many Rensselaer County residents were baptised or married in adjacent counties.

In 1942, the US government's Works Progress Administration (WPA) compiled a list of churches and the records they then held. Pat Connors has posted the list for Rensselaer County, NY on her excellent Rensselaer County website, and I highly recommend a visit. You can go there and view the list by clicking here.

Kathleen Gallagher Brearton, Secretary of the Troy Irish Genealogy Society (TIGS), sends the following message about offline Roman Catholic churchbook records: "I am pleased to inform you that four volumes of St Mary's marriages, three volumes of baptisms and one volume of deaths are now available in the Genealogy Room (Troy Room) at the Troy Public Library The records were produced by the American Canadian Genealogy Society, headquartered in Manchester, NH. Many local volunteers worked to bring these records into print. The baptism and death record volumes were a gift to the library from the Troy Irish Genealogy Society. I donated the marriage record volumes in memory of my paternal grandparents. St Mary's Church was established in 1843 and is the second oldest Catholic Church in Troy. The library now has records from St Mary's, St Patrick's and St Jean the Baptist."

The excellent Troy Irish Genealogy Society has posted a list of all 52 of the churches and synagogues in Troy between 1793 and 1890 and the names of their 528 pastors; click on "Projects" and then on "Churches and Synagogues, Troy, NY 1793 to 1890".


Births and Baptisms

  • Dutch Reformed Church, Blooming Grove (in North Greenbush), 1814-1865
  • First Presbyterian Church, Brunswick, 1816-183. Email Debby Masterson for a lookup.
  • East Greenbush Methodist Church, East Greenbush, 1862-1901
  • Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, Greenbush, (now in East Greenbush), 1788-1928
  • Grace Methodist Church, Nassau, 1862-1904
  • Dutch Reformed Church, Schaghticoke, 1752-September 1866
  • Dutch Reformed Church, Schodack, 1770-1800
  • Episcopal Church of the Ascension,Troy, 1868-1923 (at the NYGenWeb Archives)
  • Saint Jean Baptiste Roman Catholic Church, Troy, 1852-1970 (lookups offered at the Troy Irish Genealogical Society website)
  • Saint John's Episcopal Church, Troy, 1880-1900
  • Saint Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Troy (at Pat Connors's website; selected surnames only)
  • Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Troy, 1844-2007 (24,040 baptisms in print at Troy Public Library. We need lookup volunteers!)
  • Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Troy, 1872-2000 (lookups offered at the Troy Irish Genealogical Society website)
  • Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, 1804-1826. Email Debby Masterson for a lookup.
  • Society of Friends,Troy, 1743-1840. Email Debby Masterson for a lookup.
  • Reformed Protestant Church, Wynantskill (North Greenbush), 1794-1867
  • Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Troy, 1868-1923 (at the NY GenWeb Archives website)
  • Saint John's Episcopal Church, Troy, 1881-1900

    Marriages

  • Blooming Grove Dutch Reformed Church, North Greenbush, 1831-1862
  • First Presbyterian Church, Brunswick, 1876-1887. Email Debby Masterson for a lookup.
  • Gilead Lutheran Church, Brunswick, 1802-1859
  • East Greenbush Methodist Church, East Greenbush, 1875-1901
  • Dutch Reformed Church, Greenbush (now in East Greenbush)
  • Seventh Day Baptist Church, Hoosick, 1801-1838
  • First Presbyterian Church, Lansingburgh (now in Troy), 1840-1848. Email Debby Masterson for a lookup.
  • Dutch Reformed Church, Nassau, 1805-1848
  • Dutch Reformed Church, Schaghticoke, 1750-1868
  • Dutch Reformed Church, Schodack, 1788-1846
  • Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Troy, 1868-1923 (at the NY GenWeb Archives website)
  • First Presbyterian Church, Troy, 1793-1814. Email Debby Masterson for a lookup.
  • Saint John's Episcopal Church, Troy, 1881-1900
  • Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Troy, 1844-2006 (9,790 marriages - lookups offered at the Troy Irish Genealogical Society website)
  • Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Troy, 1872-2000 (lookups offered at the Troy Irish Genealogical Society website)
  • Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, Troy,1876-1887. Email Debby Masterson for a lookup.
  • State Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Troy, 1815-1837. Email Debby Masterson for a lookup.

    Deaths and Funerals

  • Blooming Grove Dutch Reformed Church, North Greenbush, 1895-1926
  • East Greenbush Methodist Church, East Greenbush, 1871-1882
  • Grace Methodist Church, Nassau, 1857-1903
  • Episcopal Church of the Ascension,Troy, 1868-1923 (at the NY GenWeb Archives website)
  • Saint Jean Baptiste Roman Catholic Church, Troy, 1875 - 1970(lookups offered at the Troy Irish Genealogical Society website)
  • Saint John's Episcopal Church, Troy, 1881-1900
  • Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church,Troy, 1844-2007 (5,591 burials in print at Troy Public Library. Stephanie Moore has volunteered to do lookups)
  • Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Troy,, 1919-2004 (lookups offered at the Troy Irish Genealogical Society website)
  • Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, Troy, 1804-1829. Email Debby Masterson for a lookup.

    Miscellaneous

  • Baptist Church of Christ, Pittstown, List of members, 1787-1789
  • Particular Baptist Church, Schodack. Extracts from the Old Record Book of Meetings
  • Miscellaneous Area Baptisms (from various sources)



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