The long term project to consolidate the fragmented coverage of the Daily Gazette is going very well, with more than 8 months of 2003 completed, and work is also progressing on 1995.
Please bear with us as the remainder of the site is converted to the new design, and stay tuned for more changes!
- March 13, 2025: Added more citations to area obituaries, bringing the total to 221,484. Current issues of the Daily Gazette, Recorder, Leader-Herald, Post-Star, Daily Mail and Register-Star have been added through Aug 1, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Saratogian and Times-Telegram through Mar 13 and new material from the Schenectady Cabinet through Dec 1820, the Jul 1902 Daily Gazette and the Apr 2011 Recorder.
- February 24, 2025: Added more citations to area obituaries, bringing the total to 221,236. Current issues of the Daily Gazette, Recorder, Leader-Herald, Post-Star, Daily Mail and Register-Star have been added through Jul 25, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Saratogian and Times-Telegram through Feb 24 and new material from the Schenectady Cabinet through Aug 1820, the Jul 1902 Daily Gazette, the Mar 2011 Recorder and the 2022 Leader-Herald and Post-Star.
- February 5, 2025: Added more citations to area obituaries. Current issues of the Daily Gazette, Recorder, Leader-Herald, Post-Star, Daily Mail and Register-Star have been added through Jul 18, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Saratogian and Times-Telegram through Feb 5 and additional issues of the Schenectady Cabinet through Feb 1820, plus new entries from the the Jan 2000 Saratogian, the Mar 2011 Recorder, the 2016 Tupper Lake Free Press and the 1956 NYS Death Index (now transcribed partly through K). New to the index is two months of the 2020 Greenwich Journal & Press.
- January 29, 2025: Added the statistical reports from the 1840 Census of Agriculture.
- January 27, 2025: Updated some of the Churches pages in the Community Information section.
- January 13, 2025: Added more citations to area obituaries. Current issues of the Daily Gazette, Recorder, Leader-Herald, Post-Star, Daily Mail and Register-Star have been added through Jul 11, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Saratogian and Times-Telegram through Jan 13 and additional issues of the Schenectady Cabinet through Jan 1819, plus new entries from the 1825 Mohawk Sentinel, the Jan 2000 Saratogian, the Mar 2011 Recorder and the 1956 NYS Death Index (now transcribed partly through H). New to the index is the last few months of the Eagle Press.
- December 24, 2024: Added the census of Revolutionary War pensioners from the 1840 Census of Agriculture.
- December 22, 2024: More maintenance on the Census section.
- December 19, 2024: Added more citations to area obituaries, bringing the total to 220,600. Current issues of the Daily Gazette, Recorder, Leader-Herald, Post-Star, Daily Mail and Register-Star have been added through Jul 4, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Saratogian and Times-Telegram through Dec 19 and additional issues of the Schenectady Cabinet through Feb 1818, plus new entries from the 1824 Mohawk Sentinel, the Nov 1995 Daily Gazette, the Jan 2000 Saratogian and the Mar 2011 Recorder.
- December 5, 2024: The Schenectady County Public Library has a new catalog. The vast majority of pages with links to the old one have been updated; the rest will be as the design changes progress.
- November 25, 2024: Finished updating the Census section and added the mobile-friendly design changes.
- November 18, 2024: Added more citations to area obituaries, bringing the total to 220,058. Current issues of the Daily Gazette, Recorder, Leader-Herald, Post-Star, Daily Mail and Register-Star have been added through Jun 27, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Saratogian and Times-Telegram through Nov 17 and additional issues of the Schenectady Cabinet through Feb 1817, plus new entries from the 1824 Mohawk Sentinel.
- November 10, 2024: Biographies and portraits from Volume IV of Nelson Greene's History of the Mohawk Valley: Gateway to the West 1614-1925 are now 23% completed.
- October 28, 2024: Updated the links to G.A.R. posts and others in Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs.
- October 20, 2024: Added more biographies and portraits from Volume IV of Nelson Greene's History of the Mohawk Valley: Gateway to the West 1614-1925.
- October 16, 2024: Added more citations to area obituaries, bringing the total to 219,722. Current issues of the Daily Gazette, Recorder, Leader-Herald, Post-Star, Daily Mail and Register-Star have been added through Jun 20, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Saratogian and Times-Telegram through Oct 16 and additional issues of the Cabinet through Feb 1815. New to the index are the first 8 issues of the weekly Citizen, Schenectady mayor George Lunn's Socialist newspaper.
- September 16, 2024: Finished updating the General pages in the Community Information section.
- September 2, 2024: Finished updating the People pages in the Community Information section.
- August 31, 2024: Finished updating the Entertainment, Sports and Weather pages in the Community Information section.
- August 30, 2024: Finished updating the History and Libraries pages in the Community Information section.
- August 29, 2024: Finished updating the Politics pages in the Community Information section.
- August 27, 2024: Finished updating the Church pages in the Community Information section.
- August 26, 2024: Finished updating the Churches section and added the mobile-friendly design changes.
- August 25, 2024: Finished cleaning up all the links which went bad when Three Rivers Hudson / Mohawk / Schoharie went offline after 20 years.
- August 17, 2024: Numerous updates to the Business & Economy, Education, Health & Medicine, Transportation and Jobs pages in the Community Information section.
- August 14, 2024: Updated the Congressional Representatives with additional information for the missing terms.
- August 9, 2024: Finished updating the links in the rest of the People section and added the mobile-friendly design changes.
- August 5, 2024: Added more citations to area obituaries, bringing the total to 219,162. Current issues of the Daily Gazette, Recorder, Leader-Herald, Post-Star, Daily Mail and Register-Star have been added through Jun 13, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Saratogian and Times-Telegram through Aug 5 and additional issues of the Cabinet through Aug 1814. New to the index are 7 issues of the weekly Glens Falls Chronicle.
- August 2, 2024: Finished updating links to D. A. R. chapters on numerous pages.
- July 31, 2024: Updated the expanded Van Patten and Van Vranken Family pages.
- July 30, 2024: Updated the expanded Sanders, Schermerhorn, Van Antwerp and Veeder Family pages.
- July 28, 2024: Updated the expanded Mabee Family page.
- July 27, 2024: Updated the expanded Fonda Family page.
- July 26, 2024: Updated the expanded Clute Family page.
- July 16, 2024: Added the mobile-friendly design changes to the Families section.
- July 15, 2024: Final test version of the expanded Family pages goes live with the Bradt page, soon to be extended to the others.
- July 14, 2024: Updated the links in the main Families section.
- July 10, 2024: Updated the links in Robert Pascucci's Electric City Immigrants: Italians and Poles of Schenectady, N.Y., 1880-1930 and added the mobile-friendly design changes.
- July 8, 2024: Updated the links in Hanson's A History of Schenectady During the Revolution and added the mobile-friendly design changes.
- July 7, 2024: Added more citations to area obituaries, bringing the total to 218,587. Current issues of the 9 daily papers have been added through May 30. Various issues of the Cabinet from Jul 1813 to Jan 1814 are now included.
- June 29, 2024: Updated the links in Neisuler's History of Education in Schenectady.
- June 24, 2024: Updated the links in Pearson's History of the Schenectady Patent and added the mobile-friendly design changes.
- June 23, 2024: Updated the links in Biographical Review: Greene, Schoharie and Schenectady Counties, New York and Pearson's First Settlers and added the mobile-friendly design changes there and in the Canals section.
- June 19, 2024: Added more citations to area obituaries, bringing the total to 218,171. Current issues of the 9 daily papers have been added through May 16, as well as recent issues of the Evangelist, Jewish World and Albany Business Review. Scattered issues of the Cabinet from Jul 1810 to mid-1813 are now included.
- June 12, 2024: Fixed the links for the Schenectady County property records and added the mobile-friendly design changes to this section.
- June 3, 2024: Completed updating the links for the biographies in History of the Mohawk Valley: Gateway to the West 1614-1925 and added the mobile-friendly design changes to the entire set (currently 3.2 volumes online).
- June 2, 2024: Updated the links for the biographies J through R of History of the Mohawk Valley: Gateway to the West 1614-1925
- June 1, 2024: Updated the links for the biographies F through I of History of the Mohawk Valley: Gateway to the West 1614-1925
- May 31, 2024: Updated the links in the two historical volumes of History of the Mohawk Valley: Gateway to the West 1614-1925, as well as biographies A through E in volume 3 (complete) and 4 (partial).
- May 27, 2024: The Schermerhorn Genealogy and Family Chronicles now includes the mobile-friendly design changes and some additional links to resources.
- May 18, 2024: Added more citations to area obituaries, bringing the total to 217,659. Current issues of the 9 daily papers have been added through May 2, as well as 9 issues of the monthly Hague Chronicle, including May to Oct 2015.
- May 16, 2024: Added the 2022 County Profiles from the U. S. Census of Agriculture to the Business & Economy pages in the Community Information section.
- April 27, 2024: Added more citations to area obituaries, bringing the total to 217,149. The Post-Star and Leader-Herald have been indexed through Nov 15, 2022 and current issues of the 9 daily papers have been added through Apr 16.
- March 18, 2024: Added more citations to area obituaries, bringing the total to 216,320. The Post-Star and Leader-Herald have been indexed through Nov 14, 2022 and current issues of the 9 daily papers have been added through Mar 18 (today). Revisions and additions have been made to the 1993 Daily Gazette through Mar 14. Death index pages for surnames through Royzman have been redivided to make them smaller.
- February 19, 2024: Added more citations to area obituaries, bringing the total to 215,366. The Post-Star and Leader-Herald have been indexed through Nov 10, 2022 and current issues of the 7 daily papers have been added through Feb 15, plus the Catskill Daily Mail and the Hudson Register-Star are included beginning Jan 30. Various issues of the 2001 Saratogian have been added.
- January 15, 2024: Added more citations to area obituaries, bringing the total to 214,402. Revisions and additions have been made to the 1993 Daily Gazette through Mar 2, and 11 more days from 1995 have been added. The Post-Star and Leader-Herald have been indexed through Nov 2, 2022 and current issues of the daily papers (Daily Gazette, Leader-Herald, Recorder and Post-Star) have been added for 2024 through today (Jan 15). Various issues of the 2001 Saratogian have been added. Death index pages for surnames through Rieper have been redivided to make them smaller.
- January 13, 2024: Updated the Contacts page.
- January 4, 2024: Updated the Business & Economy pages in the Community Information section.
- December 9, 2023: Added more citations to area obituaries, bringing the total to 213,267. Revisions and additions have been made to the 1993 Daily Gazette, and 13 more days from Aug 1995 have been added. The Post-Star and Leader-Herald have been indexed through Oct 11, 2022 and the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, the Saratogian and the Times Telegram through today (Dec 9, 2023). The Evangelist and Jewish World are complete through Nov 2023 and the Albany Business Review has been indexed through Sep 2023. Scattered issues of the Amsterdam Recorder (2010) and the Saratogian (1999-2001) have been added. Death index pages for surnames through Reczek have been redivided to make them smaller.
- November 29, 2023: Added the November 2023 issue of the newsletter for the Project to Discover Schenectady County's Eastern European Roots.
- October 31, 2023: Added more citations to area obituaries, bringing the total to 212,410. Revisions and additions have been made to the 1993, 2003 and 2005 Daily Gazette, and 1902 has been reindexed through Jul 1. The Post-Star and Leader-Herald have been indexed through Sep 17, 2022 and the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, the Saratogian and the Times Telegram through today (Oct 31, 2023). The Evangelist and Jewish World are complete through Oct 19, 2023, and scattered issues of the Amsterdam Recorder have been added from Oct 2008 to Oct 2009.
- October 9, 2023: Added more citations to area obituaries, bringing the total to 211,927. 20 more days of the 2003 Daily Gazette have been added and some previous entries updated. The Post-Star and Leader-Herald have been indexed through Sep 6, 2022, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, the Saratogian and the Times Telegram through today (Oct 9, 2023). The Evangelist is complete through Aug 10, 2023 and scattered issues of the Amsterdam Recorder have been added from Feb to Sep 2008. Historical additions include the surviving 1807 and 1809-10 issues of the Western Budget, successor to the Western Spectator and precursor to the much-longer-lived Schenectady Cabinet (1810-1857), most of which is already indexed.
- September 24, 2023: Made some tweaks to the home page.
- September 5, 2023: Updated external links on the List of Newspapers Indexed.
- August 20, 2023: Added more citations to area obituaries, bringing the total to 210,672. 20 more days of the 1995 Daily Gazette have been added and some previous entries updated. The Post-Star and Leader-Herald have been indexed through Aug 3, 2022, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, the Saratogian and the Times Telegram through today (Aug 20, 2023). The Evangelist is complete through Aug 10, 2023 and scattered issues of the Amsterdam Recorder have been added from Feb 2007 to Feb 2008.
- July 28, 2023: Updated the Contacts page.
- July 12, 2023: Added more citations to area obituaries, bringing the total to 209,467. Another 11 days of the July and November 1995 Daily Gazette have been added and some previous entries updated. The Post-Star and Leader-Herald have been indexed through Jul 4, 2022 and the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, the Saratogian and the Times Telegram through today (Jul 12, 2023). The Evangelist and the Jewish World have been indexed through Jun 2023.
- June 27, 2023: Added more citations to area obituaries, bringing the total to 208,747. 20 days of the 1995 Daily Gazette have been added and some previous entries updated. The Post-Star and Leader-Herald have been indexed through Jun 10, 2022, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise through Apr 6, 2023 and the Saratogian and the Times Telegram through today (Jun 27, 2023). The Evangelist is complete through Jun 8, 2023 and 2023 issues for the Jewish World have been indexed through Jun 8.
- June 10, 2023: Added more citations to area obituaries, bringing the total to 207,731. Another 12 days of the 2003 Daily Gazette have been added and 1902 has been reindexed through Jun 18. The Post-Star and Leader-Herald have been indexed through May 21, 2022, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise through Nov 19, 2022 and the Saratogian and the Times Telegram through today (Jun 10, 2023). The Evangelist is complete through May 18, 2023 and the Albany Business Review has another 3.5 months. Death index pages for surnames through Q have been redivided to make them smaller.
- May 23, 2023: Added more citations to area obituaries, bringing the total to 207,041. The NYS Department of Health has updated their online death index through the end of 1972, which means we are able to incorporate nearly 21,000 additional records from the 10-county area for 1971-72. Another month of the 2003 Daily Gazette brings us to Aug 6, while the Post-Star and Leader-Herald have been indexed through Apr 2022, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise through Jun 2022 and the Saratogian and the Times Telegram through today (May 23, 2023). The Evangelist is complete through Mar 2023.
- April 21, 2023: Special issue of the newsletter for the Project to Discover Schenectady County's Eastern European Roots!
- April 6, 2023: Added more citations to area obituaries, bringing the total to 206,010, including the usual contemporary papers through Apr 6, 2022. Another 16 days of the 2003 Daily Gazette have been added and 1902 has been reindexed through Jun 10. The Albany Business Review, the Evangelist and the Jewish World are complete through the end of 2022, and the Saratogian and the Times-Telegram have been indexed through Apr 6, 2023.
- January 17, 2023: Added the January 2023 issue of the newsletter for the Project to Discover Schenectady County's Eastern European Roots.