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Since 1924 valuable material relating to the history and genealogy of the Albany area has been appearing in The Dutch Settlers Society of Albany Yearbook [NYG&B call number N.Y. L AL13.92]. There are cumulative listings of articles in vol. 28-29, pp. 53-64, and in vol. 49, pp. 37-40. However, there are every-name indexes for only a few articles, as indicated below, not for each volume. As a result, the careful reader will want to scrutinize the useful parts of each volume to make sure nothing is overlooked. For example, in vol. 6 at pp. 19-20 is the will of Johan Frese, dated 21 April 1685, mentioning daughters Abeltie and Annette, the wives of Anthony Lespinaer and Omie de Lagransie, respectively. Yet since there is no every-name index to each volume, no one may have noticed that this will identifies the wife of the immigrant Anthony Lispenard.[Note also the LaGrange genealogy at 24:7-8 for mention of this will.]

Listed below are the source records and the compiled genealogies in the Yearbook. The compiled genealogies are rarely authoritative — but always useful. An asterisk indicates the article is accompanied by an every-name index. There are also general well-documented articles about Albany and Schenectady history in vols. 48 and 51.

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Source Records

Patents & Deeds, State Street, Albany 2:24
Settlers of Rensselaerswyck 1659-1664 5:18
Deacons Account Books 1652-1664 7:1
Wills and Other Documents 1665-1695 [Most of the translations and commentary are by A.J.F. van Laer. There is an index to principal names at 28-29:61] 6:13; 10:1; 13:1; 14:1
Burial Records of the Reformed Dutch Church 1664-1863 8-9:1;* 41:58
Early Records of Albany 1658-60[Most of the translations and commentary are by A.J.F. van Laer. There is an index to principal names at 28-29:61] 18-19:20
Letters to Adriaen Gerritsen Papendorp 1680-1693 17:1
Notarial Papers of Dirck van Schelluyne 1660-1665 16:2
Members of the Reformed Dutch Church 1683 18-19:24
Persons from Albany Married at the New York Reformed Dutch Church 1639-1801 20:21
Cemeteries, Town of Berne 21-22:26*
Cemeteries, Town of Bethlehem 23:13*
Cemeteries, Town of Coeymans 24:34*
Material Deposited in the New York State Library [mainly Family Bibles] 30-31:32
Church Records of Eastern New York 32-33:14
Marriages in the First Reformed Dutch Church 1805-1864 32-33:19; 40:29
Two Old Wills [1711, 1750] 34-35:11
First Reformed Dutch Church Baptisms 1809-1865 36-37:21; 39:22; 43:14
State Street Burial Grounds 39:34
[Miscellaneous Documents in the Bratt Papers] 47:9

Surnames

Blanchan 50:14*
Bradt 30-31:24; 32-33:23; 47:5
Clauw 38:17; 48:25
Dareth 21-22:23
De Forest 34-35:11
Fonda 34-35:11; 48:17; 49:28
Gardenier 46:12; 47:15
Jans [Anneke] 43:12
LaGrange 24:7
Lansing 6:7; 34-35:33
Quackenbush 34-35:11
Roelofs 43:12
Schaets 6:4
Schoonmaker 28-29:16
Schuyler 36-37:29
Slingerland 36-37:13, 18
Swart 39:8
Ten Broeck 48:16
Van Curler 3:11, 18, 20
Van den Bergh 44:22; 48:25
Van der Heyden 36-37:29
Van der Poel 41:5*
Van Dyck 32-33:5; 34-35:32
Van Eps 45:18
Van Kleeck 46:17
Van Wie 4:8
Webber 43:12
Wendel 4:1; 36-37:29
Wiltsie 42:5;* 43:9
Winne 40:9

by Henry B. Hoff, CG, FASG, FGBS

Originally published in The NYG&B Newsletter, Fall 1996