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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!

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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.

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About GenWeb
World, North America, US, NY and Rensselaer Co
Advice for Beginners
For those new to genealogy
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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
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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.

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