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Websites of Interest to Rensselaer County Researchers This page was last updated 21March 2021 |
Rensselaer County-Related Websites
| Albany and Eastern New York Genealogy - Cliff Lamere's website |
| Albany County Online Records |
| Burden Iron Works payroll records - at the Troy Irish Genealogy Society website |
| The Colonial Albany Social History Project |
| Danish-born Residents of Troy - at Lisa Petersen's website - an excellent resource |
| Ice harvesting along the Hudson River - by Cliff Lamere, with great photographs showing how it was done |
| Troy Irish Genealogy Society - Over 25,000 marriage records and much more |
| Jewish Genealogical Sources |
| New York History Net |
| Offline Sources Covering Rensselaer County |
| The Olive Tree Genealogy - Lorine McGinnis Schulze's website |
| Rensselaer County Government |
| Rensselaer County Town Histories - at Ray's Place |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, founded in 1824 |
| The Settlers of the Beekman Patent - a bit south of our county, but still worth a visit |
| Stephentown Genealogy - Tina Ordone's excellent website, chock full of genie information! |
| The Troy Page - at Pat Connors's website, a wealth of info about our county's capital city |
| Washington Park Association of Troy - who once lived where in Troy's grandest neighbourhood |
Miscellaneous Genealogy-Related Websites
| Amazon Books | Earth's biggest bookstore |
| Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet | An excellent resource |
| Daughters of the American Revolution | An introduction to the DAR |
| DAR Library | A catalog of the library's holdings |
| Dead Fred | A searchable collection of old photographs online |
| The Dutch Uncle Discussion List | Notes on old Dutch families |
| Family Search | LDS website; wealth of info, including not least their online-searchable 1880 US Census |
| Genealogy Quest | A full-service genealogy bureau |
| Genealogy Today | Masonic rosters, funeral cards, school records, telephone directories, church records and more |
| Higginson Book Company | Specializing in genealogy and history |
| Hope Farm Press | Genealogy and history books for NY |
| Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs | Covering 11 counties, including Rensselaer, and searchable by surname |
| Hank Jones's Website | The prize-winning author and authority on the 847 families of the Great Palatine Migration of 1710; includes his latest three-volume, 125,000-name Even More Palatine Families: 18th Century Immigrants to the American Colonies and Their German, Swiss, and Austrian Origins, new in 2003 |
| Kinship | Genealogy books for NY |
| Palatines to America | Pertains to German-speaking ancestry |
| Reformed Dutch Church Records | Their value in genealogy |
| Sampubco | Order photocopies of wills for a small fee; the index to Rensselaer County Will Book 2 (1836-1837) went online on 2 March 2003. |
| Sleeper Books | Genealogy and history books for northeastern NY |
| Social Security Deaths Index | Several versions are searchable online for free; this one's at RootsWeb |
| Sons of the American Revolution | An introduction to the SAR |
| Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) | Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) and related research links |
| The US Railroad Retirement Board | Offers a genealogy service - "after 1936" only | Genealogy: the Complete Resource Guide | Guidelines for beginners  |
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Debby Masterson