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
The cemetery is closed and the gravestones have been removed. No cemetery records exist.
 * 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. Cemetery office (518) 463-0134


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

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