Vital Records at the Schenectady County Historical Society

This abbreviated list was compiled in 1991-92 by Rose Fetter and Ella Greene from the catalog of the Historical Society to facilitate quick retrieval by geographic location. The call number or other indicator is in brackets at the end of each entry.

General | United States & Canada | New York | Schenectady

GENEALOGIES AND HISTORIES NOT OTHERWISE CLASSIFIED

Registers of Births, etc.

U.S. Archives and Records Service Guide to Genealogical Research etc. [929.1 U]

American Marriage Records Before 1699

W. M. Clemens, ed., 244 pp, 1926 [929.3 C]

Obituaries cut from New York Genealogical and Biographical Record for years 1926-1938

[filed 1990 with miscellaneous church vital records]

American Ancestry, by Thomas Hughes

Name and descent, male line, of Americans whose ancestors settled in the United States prior to 1776. 10 vol. [929.1 A]

D.A.R. Patriot Index

published 1966 [929.3 D]

American and English Genealogies in the Library of Congress

1910 edition [929 U]

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: Priesthood Genealogy Seminar

Oct. 1977 [929.1 C]

UNITED STATES (except New York) AND CANADA

(Canada) - Our French-Canadian Ancestors, by Thomas J. Laforest

1983 [929.2 L]

(Canada) - Tracing Your Ancestors in Nova Scotia [929.1 N]

(New England) - Moulthrop Miscellaneous Records

Family genealogies - Abbot to Deane only [929.1 M]

(Connecticut) - Records of Congregational Church, Franklin, Conn. 1718-1860

Also a record of deaths in the Norwich Eighth Society, 1763, 1778, 1782, 1784-1802 [929.3 R]

(Connecticut) - Historical Catalogue of the First Church in Hartford, 1633-1885

[974.63 C]

(Connecticut) - Memorial History of Hartford County, by J. Trumbull, 1886

Covers 1633-1884 [974.62 T]

(Connecticut) - New London, First Reformed Church

Primary department and other statistics, has index [pamphlet in Connecticut file]

(Connecticut) - Norwich Eighth Society

Deaths 1763, 1778, 1782, 1784-1802 [929.3 S]

(Connecticut - Preston) - First Congregational Church Admissions, Marriages, Baptisms, Deaths

circa 1700-1845, copied by L. H. Payne [Connecticut file]

(Delaware - Wilmington) - Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church

Catalogue and errata, published 1909 [975.12 B]

(Illinois) - Genealogy Records Compiled by DAR

Vol. 2 - Port Byron Methodist Episcopal Church, 1833-1900; Congregational Church 1849-1900; etc.

Vol. 4 - Family and Court Records [929.3 D]

(Kentucky - Mason County) - Marriage Bonds 1834-1860 [DAR Magazine]

(Maine) - Public Record Repositories in Maine, 1976 [974.1 P]

(Maryland) - Maryland Marriage Licenses, 1778-1800 [DAR Magazine]

(Massachusetts - Boston) - Registers of Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths 1630-1699 [974.46 B]

(Massachusetts - Boston) - Registers of Births, Marriages from 1700-1751 [974.46 B]

(Massachusetts - Lincoln) - Vital Records to Year 1850 [974.4 N]

(Massachusetts - Plymouth) - Epitaphs from Burial Hill, Plymouth, Mass., from 1657 to 1892... [974.48 K]

(Massachusetts - Plymouth) - Records of the Town of Plymouth, by Avery and Doten

2 vol. 1889

(New Jersey) - Guide to Local Church Records in the Archives of the Reformed Church in America and to Genealogical Resources in the Gardner Sage Library in New Brunswick Theological Seminary, pub. 1979 [Church file?]

(North Carolina) - Marriage Notices from the Raleigh Register & N.C. State Gazette, 1804-1905

In DAR Magazine, Nov. 1950, pp. 889-893

(Pennsylvania) - Pennsylvania Archives, fifth series, 1906 [974.8 N]

(Pennsylvania) - Records of Reformed Church of Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pa. ca. 1770-1831 [DAR Magazine]

(Pennsylvania) - Record of Jacobs Lutheran Church, near Waynesboro, Franklin County, Pa.

[DAR Magazine March, April, May 1950]

(Pennsylvania) - Smithfield Reformed Church

Baptisms, marriage records, etc. circa 1737-1805 [CH 517]

(South Carolina) - Cemeteries of Laurens County, S.C. - Duncan Creek Presbyterian Cemetery

[DAR Magazine August 1949]

(Vermont) - Town of St. Albans, Franklin County - Births

[DAR Magazine Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., May 1950]

(Virginia) - Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish settlement in Virginia, extracted from original court records

3 vols., pub. 1965 [975.5 C]

(Virginia) - Marriage Bonds in Buckingham County, Virginia, ca. 1784-1794

[DAR Magazine Sep. 1949]

(Virginia) - Early records of Hampshire County, Virginia, now West Virginia

pub. 1969 [975.4 S]

NEW YORK STATE - GENERAL, NOT OTHERWISE CLASSIFIED

Cemeteries - Tablets in [Misc. 814]

Cemeteries - Cato-Meridian [Misc. 768]

Early Settlers of New York State; their ancestors and descendants

periodical by Janet Wethy Foley, vol. I, II, III [929 E]

Palatines in New York State, by Ulrich Simmendinger [Pamphlet file]

Genealogy - New York State, Book of names especially related to early Palatines and first settlers in New York State - Mohawk Valley

by L. D. MacWethy [929.1 M]

Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Members

by Cuyler Reynolds [929.1 R]

Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and Hudson River Valley

by Cuyler Reynolds [929.1 R]

Six generation ancestor tables

Central New York Genealogical Society, 1976, Books 1 and 2 [929.1 S]

Genealogical Notes of New York and New England Families

by S. V. Talcott, 1883 [929.1 T]

Vital records compiled from miscellaneous newspapers 1826-1899

52 pp., index, typed, includes Cayuga and Ontario Counties [929.1 V]

Names of persons for whom marriage licenses were issued previous to 1784

cover title: "New York Marriages" [929.3 N]

Guide to Vital Statistics Records of Churches in New York State

exclusive of New York City, WPA 1942 [974.7 H]

Reformed Church in America - "Ecclesiastical records of New York" [974.7 N]

Registers of the Births, Marriages, and Deaths of the Eglise Francoise a la Nouvelle York: from 1688 to 1804

by Rev. A. Wittmeyer (in French language] [974.71 W]

(Shawangunk, New York) - Reformed Dutch Church Records 1751-1813; bound with Flatbush Dutch Church records, Bergen, New Jersey [974.734 H]

Gallatin Reformed Church, 1748-1899

Also Stissing Church, Reformed Dutch Church of Greenbush, Vedder Church, etc. [974.741 Gal. Ref.]

ALBANY COUNTY, NEW YORK

Annals of Albany

by Joel Munsell, 10 vol., includes Genealogy [974.742 M]

Holland Society Year Book 1904

Vol. 15 pp. 1-106 Marriages, baptisms, etc. of Church of Jesus Christ in New Albany, post 1682 [974.71 H]

Dutch Settlers Society of Albany Yearbooks 1924-1972 [369 D]

Albany First Dutch Reformed Church

Compiled by Paul M. Schrodt, 6 pp. typed [Ch. 48]

Albany First Dutch Reformed Church

Notes copied from Deacons First Book of Albany Dutch Church, ca. 1667 [Ch. 56]

Albany Reformed Church Records, ca. 1683-1804 [974.742 A]

(Bethlehem) - Records of the People of the Town of Bethlehem, Albany County, 1698-1880

461 pp. [974.744 B]

(Colonie) - Boght Reformed Church [974.742 C]

(Colonie) - Lisha Kill Reformed Church and Cemetery records

by E. D. Shaver, 1983 [Pamphlet File - Lisha]

(Guilderland) - DAR, Pilgrimage to graves of 106 Revolutionary soldiers in the towns of Guilderland, New Scotland and Bethlehem

pub. 1940 [974.742 D]

(Guilderland) - Bible and family records

by William Brinkman, 1943 [974.742 B]

(Guilderland) - Places of burial and sketches of some Guilderland soldiers of Revolutionary War and records of farm burial places in town of Guilderland, NY

by William Brinkman, 1946, 43 pp. typed [974.742 B]

(Guilderland) - Records of some early settlers in town of Guilderland, the Helderburgh, and Normanskill regions

by William Brinkman, 1944, 22pp. [974.742 B]

(Guilderland and Helderberg) - Church baptismal records 1786-1860

by Donald A. Keefer, 172 typed pages [974.742 H]

(Knox) - see Memorial Census for Duanesburg, by Clarence Foote

[Pamphlet File - Cemeteries]

Story of New Amsterdam

extracts from Dutch records [974.71 H]

(Newtonville) - Newtonville Methodist Church Records

by Elizabeth D. Shaver, 128 typed pages, 1985 [974.742 S]

(Rensselaerswyck) - Early Records [974.742 A]

(Rensselaerswyck) - Settlers from 1630-1646; Passengers to New Netherland, 1658 [974.71 H]

CAYUGA COUNTY, NEW YORK

Cayuga County Cemeteries [Pamphlet File]

CHENANGO COUNTY, NEW YORK

Registers of births, etc.

Compiled from miscellaneous newspapers, 1826-1889 [929.1 V]

St. Andrews Episcopal Church Records

New Berlin, New York, typed copy [974.733 N]

COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK

Baptismal Records - St. Thomas Lutheran Church, Churchtown, New York (Lutheran Church of Claverack), 1760-1899

(Kelly Collection) [974.739 Chu. Lut.]

Claverack Reformed Church, 1727-1899

(Kelly Collection) [974.739]

Germantown Reformed Church, 1729-1898

(Kelly Collection) [974.739]

Germantown Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church

Registers of Births, etc. [974.739 G]

Hillsdale Reformed Dutch Church (Krum Church), (Dutch Church of New Claverack) 1776-1849

(Kelly Collection) [974.749]

Kinderhook Reformed Church, 1718-1899

Baptismal records (Kelly Collection) [974.739]

(Livingston) - Linlithgo Reformed Church

Baptismal Records, 1722-1899 (Kelly Collection) [974.739]

St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Manorton, NY 1765-1872

and Lutheran Church of Livingston [974.739]

West Copake Reformed Church, 1783-1899 (Kelly Collection) [974.739]

DUTCHESS COUNTY, NEW YORK

(Brunswick) - Gilead Lutheran Church, 1777-1886

Baptismal records (Kelly Collection) [974.741 Brun]

(Gallatinville) - Gallatin Reformed Church

(Reformed Dutch Church of Greenbush) 1748-1899 [974.741 Gal]

(Hillsdale) - Reformed Church (Krum Church)

and Dutch Church of New Claverack, 1776-1849 [974.739 Hil]

(Red Hook) - St. Paul's (Zion's) Lutheran Church

Baptismal records, 1730-1899 (Kelly Collection) [974.733 Red]

(Poughkeepsie) - Records of Christ Church [974.733]

(Rhinebeck) - Church of Rhinebeck Flats

Baptisms, 1731-1899 (Kelly Collection) [974.733 Rhi]

(Rhinebeck) - St. Peter's Lutheran Church

(known as Stone Church) Baptisms 1733-1899 [974.733 Rhi - Lut 1]

(Rhinebeck) - St. Peter's Lutheran Church of Wurtemburg

Baptismal records, 1760-1899 [974.733 Rhi - Lut 2]

FULTON COUNTY, NEW YORK

Cemeteries [Pamphlet file]

Cemetery Records - Johnstown and Ephratah [974.747 F]

(Johnstown) - List of burials in Old Colonial Cemetery [Ch. 710]

GREENE COUNTY, NEW YORK

(Athens) - Zion Lutheran Church of Loonenburg,

(now Athens) 1704-1789 [974.737 A]

(Coxsackie) - Reformed Church, 1738-1899 [974.737]

HERKIMER COUNTY, NEW YORK

Herkimer County Cemetery Records

(loose-leaf notebook) [974.761 H]

Baptism Record of Reformed Church, Herkimer 1801-1899

by Arthur C. M. Kelly [974.761 K]

(German Flats) - Fort Herkimer Baptismal records [974.747 K]

Cemeteries - Van Hornesville [Pamphlet File - Cemeteries]

JEFFERSON COUNTY, NEW YORK

Cemeteries - Jefferson County [Pamphlet File - Cemeteries]

MADISON COUNTY, NEW YORK

Cazenovia Methodist Church

Members and baptisms, 1830-1876 [Pamphlet File]

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, NEW YORK

(Canajoharie) - Canajoharie Reformed Church, 1822-1833

Baptisms and other records [Ch. 289-306, Ch. 317-318, Ch. 412, Ch. 462-463]

(Florida) - United Presbyterian Church

ed. R. W. Vosburgh, 24 pp. typed [Montgomery County mss. file]

Montgomery County - cemetery records

mostly 19th century - loose-leaf scrapbook [974.746 C]

Rev. James Dempster church records 1778-1803 [974.746 D]

Vital Statistics of Montgomery County 1943

compiled by E. B. Kipp from Schenectady Gazette [974.746 K]

Montgomery County births, marriage records etc.

compiled by Melvin W. Lethbridge 1795-1876 [Montgomery County pamphlet file]

(Amsterdam) - Second Presbyterian Church 125th anniversary

1800-1925, 25 pp. [Ch. 87]

(Canajoharie) - St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church

1840-1935 [Montgomery County pamphlet file]

(Canajoharie) - Registers of births, baptisms

handwritten lists 1822-1833 [Ch. 289]

(Canajoharie Falls) - Cemetery - Names of Persons

(Crouch, Lane, Lumbard, Robinson, Yates) [Montgomery County pamphlet file]

Fonda Cemeteries - by William A. Brinkman 1940

Records of early burial places [974.742 B]

(Fonda) - Baptism Record of Caughnawaga Reformed Church, 1758-1899

Middletown (Mapletown) Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, 1803-1891

complied by Donald A. Keefer [974.746 K]

(Princetown) - see Florida entry

(Stone Arabia) - Registers - Names, especially relating to Palatines and first settlers

Records from graveyard and congregational register [929.1 M]

(Stone Arabia) - Trinity Lutheran Church Records

1735-1814, typescript [974.746 S]

NEW YORK CITY (COUNTY)

(Flatbush) - Dutch Church records

bound together with (Shawangunk) - Reformed Protestant Dutch Church records 1751-1815 [974.734 H]

(New York City) - Registers of Births, etc. [974.71 H]

(New York City) - Brick Presbyterian Church - 1809-1908 [974.71 N]

(New York City) - Trinity Church - 1750-1874 [974.71 N]

(New York City) - French Church - 1688-1804 [974.71 W]

Genealogy (New York City) - Reformed Church in America

Church records etc. in Gardner Sage Library [See Ref. Ch. Amer.]

St. Matthew's Evangelical Church, New York City

Early records of Lutheran Church [Holland Society Year Book]

NIAGARA COUNTY, NEW YORK

Inscriptions and graves in Niagara Peninsula

by Janet Carnochan, 147 pp. [974.798 N]

ONEIDA COUNTY, NEW YORK

Oneida County Cemetery Records

loose-leaf notebook [974.762 O]

Cemeteries - Oneida County, New York [Pamphlet File - Cemeteries]

ONTARIO COUNTY, NEW YORK

Vital Records compiled from various newspapers 1826-1889 [929.1 V]

ORANGE COUNTY, NEW YORK

Florida Cemeteries, compiled by C. Foote

See "Memorial Census for Duanesburgh..." [Pamphlet File - Duanesburg]

Note: Christ Church of the Hills was formed from: Florida United Presbyterian, Mariaville Presbyterian and Princetown Presbyterian Churches

Machackemeck Gravestone Inscriptions, Port Jervis

published 1913 [Pamphlet File]

ORLEANS COUNTY, NEW YORK

Vital records compiled from miscellaneous newspapers 1826-1899 [929.1 V]

OSWEGO COUNTY, NEW YORK

Cemetery Records - typewritten [974.767 O]

RENSSELAER COUNTY, NEW YORK

(Schodack) - Reformed Church Records 1770-1831 [974.741 S]

SARATOGA COUNTY, NEW YORK

Saratoga County Cemeteries - Epitaphs [2 reels of Microfilm]

Saratoga County Church Records - various - typed [974.748 S]

Saratoga County Cemeteries

2 vol., published 1940 [974.748 S]

Saratoga County Cemeteries

NEHGS Nexus, v. 1 1984 [Saratoga County Pamphlet File]

Genealogical Guide to Saratoga County, 1980 [Saratoga County Pamphlet File]

Charlton Records - various - typed - in binder [974.748 C]

Gravesites of Charlton Residents in the Revolution

[Saratoga County Pamphlet File]

Charlton Cemeteries in "Memorial Census for Duanesburg"

[Pamphlet File, Duanesburg Cemeteries]

Clifton Park Cemeteries

copied mostly from Durkee's Saratoga County cemetery records 1874-78 [974.748]

Half-Moon Cemeteries

compiled by H. I. Becker, 1963 [974.748 B]

Mechanicville Cemeteries [974.748 V]

(Schuylerville) - Reformed Dutch Church records 1790-1857

loose-leaf notebook [974.748 S]

Vischers Ferry Cemeteries

compiled by H. E. Becker [974.748 B]

(Vischers Ferry) - Amity Reformed Church records

See Schenectady, NY - Churches in pamphlet file [Ch. pamphlet file]

SCHENECTADY COUNTY, NEW YORK (for cemeteries, see also items under City of Schenectady)

Schenectady, County of

Schenectady County Deeds

Schenectady, NY - Almshouse/Poorhouse Records Index (03/20/2004)

Duanesburg

Memorial Census for Duanesburg, by C. Foote

See Duanesburgh - Cemeteries in Pamphlet File

Records of Early Burial Places on the Farms in the town of Guilderland and surrounding towns [974.742 B]

(Duanesburg) - Christ Episcopal Church Records

Marriages, baptisms, deaths c. 1794-1863 by Howard McConville, typescript [974.744 Ch]

Duanesburg Reformed Presbyterian Church

Births, etc. [974.744 D]

Records from Quaker Street Friends Meeting House, 1811-1854

Copied by Howard McConville [974.744 R]

Christ Episcopal Church Records

Marriages and baptisms c. 1799-1868 [974.744 S]

(Esperance) - Cemeteries

See Duanesburgh - Cemeteries in Pamphlet File

Glenville

See Schenectady, NY - Center Glenville United Methodist Church

Deaths and marriages copied from Glenville papers

c. 1830-1835, index [GN 333]

Reformed Cemetery Records, West Glenville

94 pp. [974.744 Ref]

Early Settlers of Glenville and Their Churches, by P. M. Van Epps

in Contributions to the History of Glenville, pp. 73-91 [974.744 V]

Mariaville

(Mariaville) - Cemeteries - Batter Street Cemetery

Leonard Lester farm near Braman's Corners, 136 graves [Ch 713]

Niskayuna

for Bethany Lutheran Church, see Grace Lutheran Church

Niskayuna Protestant Reformed Dutch Church - 1790-1837

Marriages, baptisms, deaths [974.744]

Cemeteries - Niskayuna Reformed Church

Records copied by E. D. Shaver, 1966, 44 pp. [974.744]

Niskayuna Reformed Church - baptismal marriage and death records 1783-1861

Photostat copies of church records, bound [974.744 N]

Niskayuna Reformed Church - Marriages performed by Rev. Thomas Romeyn, Jr.

1806-1827, index [Schenectady churches]

Princetown

Christ Church of the Hills (Florida, Mariaville and Princetown Presbyterian Churches)

misc. records 1874-1960 [Microfilm]

Cemeteries - Records of early burial places on farms in Guilderland and surrounding towns

compiled by William A. Brinkman, 1940, 30 pp., index [974.742 B]

Cemeteries - Memorial Census for Duanesburgh and bordering towns

compiled by C. Foote, 1935, 2 vol. [Pamphlet File - Princetown]

Princetown Reformed Church - marriages by Rev. Thomas Romeyn, 1800-1802

2 pp. typed list [Pamphlet File - Princetown]

Records of First Dutch Reformed Church (Giffords Corners) 1814-1941

Registers of births, etc. [974.744]

Fairview Cemetery Survey, June 1977, by Irma Mastrean

Located on North Kelly Road, Princetown, by Princetown Presbyterian Church

Rotterdam

Rotterdam family burial plots and graves of ministers "to be marked" [misc. 342]

Records of early burial places - Rotterdam

compiled by William Brinkman, 1940, 30 pp., index [974.742 B]

Church and Cemetery Records of First or Woestina Reformed Church of Rotterdam

compiled by Donald A. Keefer, typed copy [974.744 R]

Schenectady, City of

A. Items not otherwise classified

Pamphlet on delayed registration of births, etc. [GN 213]
50th Wedding Anniversaries
Scrapbook of newspaper reports, mostly 1930-1950, 142 pp. [974.74 S]

B. Indians, Blacks and Slaves

The original baptismal records of the Indian natives baptised at the Dutch Reformed Church are available only in the vault of the Schenectady Dutch Reformed Church. Typed and printed copies of this information do not make the Indian heritage clear.
Duryee Memorial A.M.E. Church, Hulett Street, has the oldest records of any black church in Schenectady
Schenectady Slave Owners, 1767-1783, extracted from a record by Mary Stevens.
See pp. 163-212 in vol. 2 of Hanson's History of St. George's Church. Indexed and arranged by Elsa Church, 1985, 7 pp. "Typed copy in folder."

C. Catholic, Jewish and German

See Churches, Roman Catholic in pamphlet file.
See individual church names in card catalog.
St. Joseph's Church and Cemetery Records
Copied from stones by Susanne Reed, 1976, 24 pp. [974.744 Cem] See Schenectady, New York - Cemeteries in pamphlet file
Listings and inscriptions of Temple Gates of Heaven Cemetery as of 1983, 13 pp. typed
See Schenectady: Christian Temple in pamphlet file
Familien Register ser vormals...III Prot. Ref. Kirche 1860-1867 (in German)
German Methodist Cemetery was located on Moyston Street, just off State Street. For information write to Vale Cemetery Association.

D. Protestant Churches: Pamphlet file - Churches are arranged by denominations, then by individual churches

Listing of records kept by Schenectady County churches [974.744 C]
History of St. George's Episcopal Church: 2 vol., printed 1919. Births, etc. [974.744]
First United Methodist Church - marriages, etc. Unbound loose pages in a box. May contain other records than those in bound volumes. [974.744 S]
First United Methodist Church. Records 1840-1910. Hand-typed. [974.744]
Fiisher United Methodist Church, Helderberg Avenue: Notes by Mrs. Ralph Spring, 1982 [974.744]
First Presbyterian Church: Baptisms 1796-1860, marriages 1796-1850, membership prior to 1796, deaths. [974.744]
State Street Presbyterian Church - Communicants, marriages, funerals, baptisms, etc. 1869-1884: hand-typed by Marie Noll Cormack, 62 pp. [974.744]
First Reformed Church Doop-boek, or baptismal register: Pearson's translations and notes. Handwritten. [Ch 130-2] Registers of Births, etc. - Extracts from First Reformed Church Doop-boek, or baptismal register See pp. of New England Historical and Genealogical and Register, vol. 18, 19, 20.
First Reformed Church: Membership list 1691-1942 [974.744]
First Reformed Church - baptisms: Transcribed for Schenectady Genealogical Society by Furman and Cormack. Vol. I: 1694-1761, Vol. II: 1783-1938, index. [974.744]
Second Reformed Church: Baptisms, marriages, deaths, c. 1851-1950, typescript. [974.744]

E. Cemeteries and Obituaries

See also churches listed under sections B, C, D. See also current file of death notices from Schenectady Gazette compiled by Elsa Church.