Kingston, Ulster County, New York Genealogy

United States New York  Ulster County  City and Town of Kingston

Cemeteries

 * Roney, Lila James. "Inscriptions of the Ancient Gravestones int he 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. Digital version at New York Family History ($); . Mostly eighteenth- and nineteenth-century burials.

Church Records
Early records for Kingston, Ulster County, New York A valuable source records for genealogists with ancestors from Kingston, Dutchess, and Albany counties New York is the Baptismal and marriage registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York. It contains records from 1660 to 1809. (The book on Google Books is fully searchable.) 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.


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


 * 1660-1805 - Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston: Ulster County, New York, 1660-1809. 1891. Digital versions at Ancestral Things; Ancestry ($); Family History Archives; Internet Archive; another Internet Archive version; New York State Historical Literature; World Vital Records ($).


 * 1660-1809 Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York at World Vital Records ($).


 * 1660-1809 Kingston Dutch Reformed Church Marriages 1660-1809 at Ancestral Things - free.


 * 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. Digital version at New York Family History ($);.


 * 1810-1877 - Roney, Lila James. Baptisms of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, New York, 1810-1877. 1989. Digital version 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.