Kingston, Ulster County, New York Genealogy

Cemeteries

 * Roney, Lila James. "Inscriptions of the Ancient Gravestones in the Churchyard of the Old First Dutch Reformed Church at Kingston, N.Y.," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 58, No. 4 (Oct. 1927):318-325. Online at: New York Family History ($); . Mostly eighteenth- and nineteenth-century burials.

Church Records

 * 1658-1684 The Dutch Records of Kingston, Ulster County, New York (Esopus, Wildwyck, Swanenburgh, Kingston). Online at: Internet Archive.


 * 1660-1809 - Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston: Ulster County, New York, 1660-1809. 1891. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library; Internet Archive; another Internet Archive version; Ancestry ($). Since this church was the only established congregation between New York City and Albany it contains information for many residents of the area, the only records that exist.


 * 1739-1795 - Scott, Kenneth. "Kingston Dutch Church, Ulster County, New York: Burials, 1739-1795," National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 61 (1973):189-194, 270-277..


 * 1805-1831 - Mearns, Shirley A. "Kingston, New York, Old Dutch Church: Burials," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1805-1810: Vol. 113, No. 3 (Jul. 1982):165-168; 1810-1816: Vol. 113, No. 4 (Oct. 1982):199-202; 1816-1831: Vol. 114, No. 1 (Jan. 1983):42-46. Online at: New York Family History ($);.


 * 1810-1877 - Roney, Lila James. Baptisms of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, New York, 1810-1877. 1989. Online at: Ancestry ($).

City/Town Clerk
Kingston City ClerkLaura L. Joy, Town Hall, 906 Sawkill Road, Kingston, NY 12401 Phone: 845-336-8853

City/Town Historian
Kingston City Historian G. Ernest Smith, Town Hall, 906 Sawkill Road, Kingston, NY 12401 Phone: 845-382-1446

Family History Centers

 * Kingston New York Family History Center

Newspapers

 * Kingston Daily Freeman. 1914-1950. Indexed and searchable at Ancestry ($).

Vital Records

 * 1667-1672 - Scott, Kenneth. "Kingston Marriages," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 106, No. 4 (Oct. 1975):193-194. Digital version at New York Family History ($); . Supplement to Hoes' Registers of the Old Dutch Church at Kingston.