Rensselaer County
Lookup Volunteers


This page was last updated 11 January 2008.

The following is a list of Rensselaer County reference materials and the e-mail addresses of the owners who have volunteered to do lookups. The key word here is VOLUNTEERED. No one here is obligated to do this. They all do this as a favour. Now, 99% of you know this and do not need these guidelines; we aren't forgetting this! However, for the other 1% [smile], we offer these guidelines, because not only do they help our valuable volunteers, but they also will help YOU get the results you want when you approach fellow genies online, at this site and at other sites.

If ANY of you have any Rensselaer County reference books, CDs, etc. and are willing to look up information for others, please e-mail Lin Van Buren. The volume of traffic you can expect is not prohibitively high. I've been a volunteer for two months, and only two people have asked me for a lookup!


Please follow these guidelines when requesting a look-up:

Please request a lookup for a specific person and a specific reference that is offered. Blanket requests for a surname or requests for information on an individual without specifying a reference are likely to be ignored - and justifiably.

Please type RENSSELAER CO. LOOKUP in caps in the subject line of the message. This will ensure that your request is not accidentally overlooked or deleted.

Please put the name of the book or CD you are requesting the lookup from in the first line of the message. Many of our volunteers have more than one book or CD and need to know where you are asking them to look before they can try to help you.

Please limit your request to one or two specific names. Requests for ALL the marriages on a surname of Brown or Jones or Smith will probably be ignored - again, with justification.

Please don't forget to THANK your volunteer for his or her time and trouble.


1912 Albany, Troy and Schenectady Blue Book Dick Malkin
Andersonville Prison Records Kevin Frye
Blatchford Memorial II Marilyn Hendricks
Cast in Stone - Selected Albany, Rensselaer and Saratoga County Burials Debby Masterson
Center Brunswick United Methodist Church - Vital Records, 1866-1970 Michelle Mavigliano
Early Families of Petersburgh, New York Tina Ordone
The Empire State in Three Centuries [Surname Index] Nancy Hauser
Epitaphs from the Only Stephentown on Earth Tina Ordone
First Presbyterian Church of Brunswick - Vital Records, 1816-1887 Michelle Mavigliano
Gilead Lutheran Church - Baptisms 1777-1886 and
some adult baptisms 1877-1879
Michelle Mavigliano
Greenbush Reformed Church, East Greenbush, NY -
Baptisms 1788-1846, Marriages 1788-1910
Debby Masterson
History of the City of Troy, from the Expulsion of the Mohegan
Indians to the Present Centennial Year of the Independence of the
United States of America,
1876, by A. J. Weise, M. A.
Joan Howe
History of the Police Dept. of Troy, N.Y., including a Digest
of the Lansingburgh Department
- 668-name index
Joan Howe
History of Rensselaer County, NY by Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester, 1880 Trudy Millard Krause
History of the Seventeen Towns of Rensselaer County from the
Colonization of the Manor of Rensselaerwyck to the Present Time,
by A. J. Weise A. M., as published in the Troy Daily Times,
Troy, N. Y.; J. M. Francis & Tucker, 1880.
Lorna Frechette
Index of Awards on Claims of Soldiers of the War of 1812 Darrell Thurman
Landmarks of Rensselaer County, NY Robert L. Miller
Nassau Reformed Church, Nassau, NY - Baptisms 1804-1880 Lin Van Buren
New York in the Revolution as Colony and State, with
Listings of Revolutionary War Soldiers from NY
Trudy Millard Krause
Official Roster of the 169th New York Volunteers (US Civil War) Bob Farrell
The Palatine Families of New York 1710, Volumes I and II by
Henry Z Jones, Jr.
Lin Van Buren
More Palatine Families (Some Immigrants to the Middle Colonies
1717-1776 and Their European Origins)
by Henry Z Jones, Jr.
Gary A. Craver
A Resourceful People: A Pictorial History of Rensselaer
County, New York
Rita O'Brien
Tiashoke Reformed Church, Buskirk's Bridge, Hoosick, NY -
Baptisms 1792-1863, Marriages 1793-1866
Lin Van Buren
Troy & Rensselaer Co., NY: A History by Rutherford Hayner,
3 Vols, 1925
Joan Howe
Troy City Directory 1960 Ginger Atchinson
Troy Telephone Directory 1944 Ginger Atchinson
Troy's One Hundred Years 1789-1889 by Arthur James Weise,
M. A., 1891
Joan Howe
Vital Records of Schodack by Lauretta P. Harris 1970
(Births, Baptisms from 1770; Marriages; 1800 US Census,
1830 US Census, 1850 US Census; Deaths; Gravestone inscriptions)
Lin Van Buren
West Stephentown Baptist Church - Historical Record Trudy Millard Krause
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Rensselaerwyck and
Greenbush
, West Sand Lake, NY - Baptisms 1785-1868, Marriages 1816-1858
Lin Van Buren



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