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Vital
Vital Records of birth, marriage or death were first recorded at the local level in the village clerk, town clerk, or city clerk’s ledger book. The actual document was then forwarded to the Department of Health in Albany city. If you know where a birth, marriage or death took place, a copy of the certificate or record may be obtained by writing to the town, village or city clerk. These clerks are generally faster than the Department of Health in providing the copies of certificates. For instance, if you knew your ancestor died in the Rensselaerville, Albany, New York, in 1862, contacting the town clerk there would be helpful to see if they have records in their ledger book for that time period. Albany births and deaths 1848, births 1866 to present, and deaths 1870 to the present can be obtained for a fee from: Registrar of Vital Statistics. There is a fifty year restriction on death and marriage records, and a seventy-five year restriction on birth records. There is the additional restriction that you prove all parties are dead to obtain a birth or marriage record. The year restrictions are waived for a direct line descendant.


 * Brinkman, William A. Bible and family records. [Guilderland, N.Y.: s.n.], 1943.


 * 1654–1883 Hannay, William Vanderpoel. Early Albany County NY death records, 1654-1883. Rhinebeck, New York: Kinship Books, 2000.

Probate
Abstracts


 * 1600s–1700s, 1700–1825 Original records of administrations of estates, inventories and accounts.
 * 1626–1836 Fernow, Berthold. Calendar of wills on file and recorded in the offices of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, of the County Clerk at Albany and of the Secretary of State. Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1965, 1967.
 * 1681–1765 Pearson, Jonathan and Van Laer, Arnold J. F. Early records of the city and county of Albany and colony of Resselaerswyck. Albany, New York: University of the State of New York, 1869-1919. (Wills - translated from Dutch)
 * 1780 to Dec. 1, 1895 Conway, Martin. Index to wills and to letters of administration. [Albany?: s.n.], 1895.

Copies of Original Records


 * 1600s–1700s, 1700–1825 Original records of administrations of estates, inventories and accounts.
 * 1629–1828 Index to Record of wills recorded at Albany, New York
 * 1629–1802 Record of wills recorded at Albany, New York
 * 1691–1835 Wills
 * 1787–1796 Albany probate records
 * 1787–1902 Wills, letters testamentary, letters of administration, orders and index
 * 1799–1848 Wills proved and recorded

Land and Property

 * 1630–1894 Index to Mortgages
 * 1652–1660, 1765–1894 Mortgages
 * 1630–1966 Index to State of New York deeds
 * 1630–1966 Index to State of New York deeds
 * 1654–1901 State of New York deeds