The Schenectady County Public Library has copies of most Schenectady newspapers back to 1822, either in paper or microfilm. Earlier newspapers, such as the Mohawk Mercury (Schenectady's first newspaper from the 1790s) and some fragments through 1820 are available at the Schenectady County Historical Society on microfilm.
SCPL has indexes to obituaries for scattered periods since the beginning of the nineteenth century, as noted on our Research page. Some of these are available here. Both SCPL and SCHS are depositories for the papers microfilmed by the New York State Newspaper Project, in addition to having other newspaper microfilm collections.
Marriage and birth records are also being extracted where available, and will eventually be added to this site.
Obituaries
This index includes scattered records from Schenectady newspapers before 1822, more complete coverage from 1822 to 1858, some later 1800s, 1902, 1993 to mid-1995, and Dec. 2005 to date. Some other papers from neighboring areas are also included from 2005 to date.