Rensselaer County, New York Genealogy

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Parent County
Albany County

Neighboring Counties
Albany | Columbia | Greene | Saratoga | Washington | Berkshire County, Massachusetts | Bennington County, Vermont

Cities
Rensselaer | Troy

Towns
Berlin | Brunswick | East Greenbush | Grafton | Hoosick | Nassau | North Greenbush | Petersburgh | Pittstown | Poestenkill | Sand Lake | Schaghticoke | Schodack | Stephentown

Cemeteries
The Rensselaer County Cemetery Name Extraction Project directed by Don and Clare Radz started in 1991. Data from headstones throughout the county was collected by volunteers. More than 600 cemeteries in 14 towns of rural Rensselaer County were surveyed, resulting in 93,274 names being recorded. Data was entered into a computer then compiled into books for each town. The records are online at Rensselaer County Cemetery Database. The cities of Troy and Rensselaer are not included in this database.

The Albany New York Family History Center has copies of the Rensselaer County rural cemetery records on microfilm.

Microfilms of rural cemetery records include the name (in alphabetical order by cemetery), location of grave, date of birth, date of death, and age at death.

Military
Civil War service men from Rensselaer County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were formed in Herkimer County.


 * 125th Regiment, New York Infantry, 156th Regiment, New York Infantry

Vital Records

 * Index to Marriage Records, Rensselaer County, NY 1908-1935, provided by the Troy Irish Genealogy Society

Cities, Towns, Villages, Hamlets, Communities

 * Cities: Rensselaer . Troy
 * Villages: Castleton-on-Hudson (Castleton) . East Nassau . Hoosick Falls . Nassau . Schaghticoke . Valley Falls
 * Towns: Berlin . Brunswick . East Greenbush . Grafton . Hoosick . Nassau . North Greenbush . Petersburgh . Pittstown . Poestenkill . Sand Lake . Schaghticoke . Schodack . Stephentown
 * Hamlets: Cherry Plain . Cropseyville . Defreestville . East Schodack
 * Communities: Averill Park . East Greenbush . Hampton Manor . Hoag's Corner . Poestenkill . West Sand Lake . Wynantskill

Web Sites

 * FamilySearch.org catalog for Rensselaer County
 * The Rensselaer County NYGenWeb Project, an member of The NYGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.