Troy Irish Genealogy Society - Rensselaer County Surrogate Court Index

	Index to Rensselaer County Surrogate Court Records An Index of 31,325 Rensselaer County, NY Surrogate Court Records from 1786 to 1917. The information in this database was copied from a file in the Rensselaer County Historical Society, 57 Second Street, Troy New York. These records, especially those prior to 1880, will be of great interest to genealogy researchers. For each name in the on-line index there is a Surrogate Court Record folder that may contain various original source documents such as Wills, Letters of Administration, Guardianship Papers, Invoices of Property, Depositions concerning a person’s death, etc. Microfilm copies of these original records are also available at the Rensselaer County Court House. Items included in this index are: NAME – Last, first, middle name or initials if any, and titles like Dr., Rev., etc. FILE NUMBER – Used to locate the files at the Rensselaer County Historical Society. LOCATION – Gives name of city, town or state of residence. DATE – May be year of death or year of legal issue. INVOICE– Indicates when there is an inventory of household goods in the record. An invoice may be in the records EVEN if this column is not checked. COMMENTS – This column will have an interesting comment for each name. Some comments may show marital status (bachelor, spinster, widow, widower), while other comments may show maiden names, occupations, street residence, relationships (wife, husband, mother, father, son, daughter, etc.) and number of children. Some of the abbreviations used in the comment column are: ABBREVIATION = STANDS FOR adptd = adopted agt = agent bach = bachelor bldg = building bro = brother bros = brothers bus = business ch = child/children d. = died dau = daughter/daughters daua = daughter/daughters div = divorced dvrcd = divorced grdau = granddaughter grneice = grandniece grnephew = grandnephew grson = grandson guard = guardian/guardianship h = house/home ins = insurance m = married mfr = manufacturer mgr = manager neph = nephew nr = near real est = real estate sis = sister sis-in-law = sister in law spin = spinster stepdau = stepdaughter wf = wife Click HERE to go directly to the file list.
	Copies of these original source documents can be requested from the Rensselaer County Historical Society. RCHS has adjusted their fee structure to institute a streamlined system for handling these requests that will simplify processing, speed up response time. The $30.00 ALL INCLUSIVE FEE ($25.00 for RCHS members and TIGS paid members) now covers the cost of pulling a singular file folder from the archives, as well as photocopying ALL documents in that folder and mailing a complete package to the requester. Click HERE to print a request form. Troy Irish Genealogy Society Members Peter Reilly and Bill McGrath worked on this project. Formatting and webpage was done by Jeanne M. Keefe. Special thanks go to Kathy Sheehan of the Rensselaer County Historical Society for her assistance in making this data base available to the Troy Irish Genealogy Website. For further information on this project please contact Bill McGrath at [email protected]

Index to Rensselaer County Surrogate Court Records

An Index of 31,325 Rensselaer County, NY
Surrogate Court Records from 1786 to 1917.

The information in this database was copied from a file in the Rensselaer County Historical Society, 57 Second Street, Troy New York. These records, especially those prior to 1880, will be of great interest to genealogy researchers.

For each name in the on-line index there is a Surrogate Court Record folder that may contain various original source documents such as Wills, Letters of Administration, Guardianship Papers, Invoices of Property, Depositions concerning a person’s death, etc. Microfilm copies of these original records are also available at the Rensselaer County Court House.

Items included in this index are:

NAME – Last, first, middle name or initials if any, and titles like Dr., Rev., etc.

FILE NUMBER – Used to locate the files at the Rensselaer County Historical Society.

LOCATION – Gives name of city, town or state of residence.

DATE – May be year of death or year of legal issue.

INVOICE– Indicates when there is an inventory of household goods in the record. An invoice may be in the records EVEN if this column is not checked.

COMMENTS – This column will have an interesting comment for each name. Some comments may show marital status (bachelor, spinster, widow, widower), while other comments may show maiden names, occupations, street residence, relationships (wife, husband, mother, father, son, daughter, etc.) and number of children.

Some of the abbreviations used in the comment column are:

ABBREVIATION = STANDS FOR
adptd = adopted
agt = agent
bach = bachelor
bldg = building
bro = brother
bros = brothers
bus = business
ch = child/children
d. = died
dau = daughter/daughters
daua = daughter/daughters
div = divorced
dvrcd = divorced
grdau = granddaughter
grneice = grandniece
grnephew = grandnephew
grson = grandson
guard = guardian/guardianship
h = house/home
ins = insurance
m = married
mfr = manufacturer
mgr = manager
neph = nephew
nr = near
real est = real estate
sis = sister
sis-in-law = sister in law
spin = spinster
stepdau = stepdaughter
wf = wife

Click HERE to go directly to the file list.

Copies of these original source documents can be requested from the Rensselaer County Historical Society.

RCHS has adjusted their fee structure to institute a streamlined system for handling these requests that will simplify processing, speed up response time.

The $30.00 ALL INCLUSIVE FEE ($25.00 for RCHS members and TIGS paid members) now covers the cost of pulling a singular file folder from the archives, as well as photocopying ALL documents in that folder and mailing a complete package to the requester.

Click HERE to print a request form.

Troy Irish Genealogy Society Members Peter Reilly and Bill McGrath worked on this project. Formatting and webpage was done by Jeanne M. Keefe.

Special thanks go to Kathy Sheehan of the Rensselaer County Historical Society for her assistance in making this data base available to the Troy Irish Genealogy Website.

For further information on this project please contact Bill McGrath at [email protected]