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.