Cohoes, Albany County, New York Genealogy

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Quick Facts

 * 1630: The land was purchased from the local Indians, became part of the Manor of Rensselaerwyck.
 * Name origin: Dutch adaptation of Mohawk "Ga-ha-oose" for "place of the falling canoe"
 * 1848: Cohoes was incorporated as a village within the Town of Watervliet.
 * 1869: Chartered as a city.

Resources
All titles, unless otherwise indicated, are Family History Library Catalog (FHL) entries.

Biography

 * The history of Cohoes, New York: from its earliest settlement to the present time, pub. 1877 (FHL)
 * Index to Coeymans and the past: by Edward D. Giddings, 1973 (FHL)

Business records and commerce

 * The City of Cohoes: its past and present history, and future prospects: its great manufactories (FHL)

Cemeteries

 * Colonie, Albany County, New York, Fonda, Lansing and Weaver burial plots and Van Schaick Family cemetery (FHL)

Calvary Catholic

 * New York Gravestone Photo Project
 * Findagrave.com
 * map: USGS GNIS FID 945486
 * map: Hometown Locator

Saint Agnes Catholic
Not to be confused with St. Agnes Catholic, located in Menards, next to Albany Rural Cemetery.


 * New York Gravestone Photo Project
 * Findagrave.com
 * map: USGS GNIS FID 963243
 * map: Hometown Locator

Saint Joseph's

 * New York Gravestone Photo Project
 * Findagrave.com

Baptist

 * Directory: First Baptist Church, Cohoes, N.Y., 1918 (FHL)
 * A Brief history of the First Baptist Church, Cohoes, New York (FHL)

Roman Catholic

 * Saint Joseph, Cohoes, New York, baptisms: September, 1868 to August, 2005 (FHL)
 * St. Joseph, Cohoes, NY, marriages ... October 1867 to May 1999 (FHL)

Directories
see also: Church Directories


 * The Albany and Troy blue book of selected names: for Albany, Troy, Cohoes, Lansingburgh [sic], Waterford, Bath, Greenbush, East Albany, West Troy, Green Island, Menands, Loudonville and Newtonville, containing the names and addresses of prominent residents, arranged both alphabetically and numerically by streets; also shopping guide, theatre diagrams, club members, and other valuable information, 1895 (FHL)
 * Albany County officials illustrated directory, 1902-1903 (FHL)
 * The Troy directory: also Cohoes and Waterford, Watervliet and Green Island, N.Y. ... containing a general directory of the citizens; business directory; street directory; house directory; and city, county, and state registers (FHL)

History
see also: Business commerce


 * Where Hudson's voyage ended: an inquiry : Cohoes, and the origin of the name (FHL)

Maps

 * Map of Troy, Watervliet, Cohoes, Waterford and Green Island [New York]

Officials and employees
see also: Directories