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Schenectady, New York
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Schenectady County's location in the state of New York
Facts
Founded	1765
Seat	Schenectady
Website: www.cityofschenectady.com/

Resources

Cemeteries

• First Presbyterian Church Cemetery E-Mail: ifirstpr@nycap.rr.com.

• First Reformed Church Cemetery Phone: 518-377-2201

• Congregation Gates of Heaven Cemetery (Jewish) American Jewish Archives E-mail: [1] Directions to the cemetery Schenectady Historical Society has a copy of the records Phone: 518-374-0263.

• Holy Name of Jesus Cemetery Phone: 518-372-1992

• Park View Cemetery (518) 346-3217. Mailing address is P.O. Box 914, 12309.

• St Georges Episcopal Church Cemetery (518) 374-3163

• Names on Tombstones and Tablets Located in the Churchyard and Church of St. George's Church (Episcopal) - Schenectady, N.Y. at St. George's Church - free.

• St. John the Baptist Cemetery Cemetery office Phone: 518-372-8805

• St. Joseph's Cemetery (new) Phone: 518-372-8805

• St. Joseph's Cemetery (old) Phone: 518-372-8805

• St Mary’s Cemetery 738 McClellan Street, Schenectady, NY AKA: Czestochwskiej Cemetery (518) 374-2423.

• Vale Cemetery Phone: 518-346-0423 Cemetery office 907 State St., Schenectady, NY

• Zion Lutheran Cemetery The records are kept at Vale Cemetery Phone: 518-346-0423.

Census

• [no date] - "A List of the Freeholders of Schenectady, Before the Grant of Gov. Dongan, From Rev. J.F. Schermerhorn's MSS.," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Apr. 1872):71. Digital version at New York Family History ($); FHL Book 974.7 B2n v. 3.

Church Records

• 1694-1720 - Pearson, Jonathan. "Extracts from the Doop-Boek, or Baptismal Records of the Reformed Protestant Church of Schenectady, N.Y.," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 18 (1864):148-150, 231-237, 357-361; Vol. 19 (1865):69-73, 315-317; Vol. 20 (1866):217-220; Vol. 21 (1867):128-131. Digital version at American Ancestors ($). Also digitized by Internet Archive - free.
  

• 1694-1723 - Baptisms, Dutch Reformed Church, Schenectady 1694-1723, courtesy: Betty Fink - free.
  

• 1694-1756 - Marriages, Dutch Reformed Church, Schenectady 1694-1756, courtesy: Betty Fink - free.
  

• 1694-1768 - "First Dutch Reformed Church of Schenectady, N.Y. Marriage Record," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1694-1764: Vol. 73, No. 1 (Jan. 1942):36-63; 1765-1768: Vol. 73, No. 2 (Apr. 1942):106-108. Digital version at New York Family History ($); FHL Book 974.7 B2n v. 73.

• 1767-1788 - Annual Register of Births (1767-1788) - St. George's (Episcopal) Church, Schenectady, NY at St. George's Church - free.

• 1771-1850 - Marriages at St. George's Church (Episcopal), Schenectady, NY - 1771-1850, courtesy: RootsWeb - free; also arranged alphabetically by bride.

• Cormack, Marie Noll. Index of Mothers Mentioned in Baptisms of First Protestant Dutch Reformed Church of Schenectady, N.Y. 1989. Digital version at Ancestry ($).

City Records

To locate additional published and transcribed records for Schenectady, New York check:

• Gordon L. Remington, New York Towns, Villages, and Cities: A Guide to Genealogical Sources (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002). American Ancestors online edition; At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 974.7 D27r. Alphabetical list including date founded, if a town history exists, church and cemetery sources, and if a Civil War register (TCR) exists. The codes used under Church and Cemetery are defined in the link above the listing of towns, cities and villages.

Repositories

Archives, Libraries and Museums

Societies

City Clerk

City Clerk^[1]
Eileen Versaci
Office of the City Clerk
City Hall, Room 107
Schenectady, NY 12305
Phone: 518-382-5195
Fax: 518-382-0030
E-mail: cityclk1@nycap.rr.com

City Historian

City Historian^[2]
Don Rittner
620 State Street
Schenectady, NY 12305
E-mail: historian@schenectadycounty.com

Also serves as Schenectady County Historian

Vital Records

References

Places

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