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.
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
(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
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.
Handtyped. [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
handtyped 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.