| The Albany Diocese includes the counties of: [[Albany County, New York Genealogy|Albany]], [[Columbia County, New York Genealogy|Columbia]], [[Delaware County, New York Genealogy|Delaware]], [[Fulton County, New York Genealogy|Fulton]], [[Greene County, New York Genealogy|Greene]], [[Hamilton County, New York Genealogy|Hamilton]](part), [[Herkimer County, New York Genealogy|Herkimer]] (part), [[Montgomery County, New York Genealogy|Montgomery]], [[Otsego County, New York Genealogy|Otsego]], [[Rensselaer County, New York Genealogy|Rensselaer]], [[Saratoga County, New York Genealogy|Saratoga]], [[Schenectady County, New York Genealogy|Schenectady]], [[Schoharie County, New York Genealogy|Schoharie]], [[Warren County, New York Genealogy|Warren]] and [[Washington County, New York Genealogy|Washington]].<ref name="rc">[http://www.cdeducation.org/oym/connections/dioceseusmap.htm Map of the Roman Catholic Dioceses in the United States of America], Office of Catholic Schools Diocese of Columbus, accessed 3 Nov 2010.</ref> | | The Albany Diocese includes the counties of: [[Albany County, New York Genealogy|Albany]], [[Columbia County, New York Genealogy|Columbia]], [[Delaware County, New York Genealogy|Delaware]], [[Fulton County, New York Genealogy|Fulton]], [[Greene County, New York Genealogy|Greene]], [[Hamilton County, New York Genealogy|Hamilton]](part), [[Herkimer County, New York Genealogy|Herkimer]] (part), [[Montgomery County, New York Genealogy|Montgomery]], [[Otsego County, New York Genealogy|Otsego]], [[Rensselaer County, New York Genealogy|Rensselaer]], [[Saratoga County, New York Genealogy|Saratoga]], [[Schenectady County, New York Genealogy|Schenectady]], [[Schoharie County, New York Genealogy|Schoharie]], [[Warren County, New York Genealogy|Warren]] and [[Washington County, New York Genealogy|Washington]].<ref name="rc">[http://www.cdeducation.org/oym/connections/dioceseusmap.htm Map of the Roman Catholic Dioceses in the United States of America], Office of Catholic Schools Diocese of Columbus, accessed 3 Nov 2010.</ref> |
| '''The Drouin Collection'''<br><br>[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1111 Early U.S. French Catholic Church Records, 1695-1954] ($) (Ancestry). This database only contains the French Catholic parish records from the United States in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New York, and Pennsylvania. It is the U.S. part of the U.S. and French-Canadian Drouin Collection. For more details see [[The Drouin Collection: Six databases|"The Drouin Collection: Six Databases"]] | | '''The Drouin Collection'''<br><br>[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1111 Early U.S. French Catholic Church Records, 1695-1954] ($) (Ancestry). This database only contains the French Catholic parish records from the United States in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New York, and Pennsylvania. It is the U.S. part of the U.S. and French-Canadian Drouin Collection. For more details see [[The Drouin Collection: Six databases|"The Drouin Collection: Six Databases"]] |
| The types of records include baptisms, marriages, and burials as well as confirmations, dispensations, censuses, statements of readmission to the church, and so on. They are written mainly in French, as well as English, Latin, and Italian. | | The types of records include baptisms, marriages, and burials as well as confirmations, dispensations, censuses, statements of readmission to the church, and so on. They are written mainly in French, as well as English, Latin, and Italian. |