HI I had good luck with the NY G&B Record magazine, many of the church records were published serially You may have to go back to issues published in 1930s etc. My families were located in the Dutch churches in Coxsackie, Catskill. Kinderhook, Claverack, and Kingston, too as well as Zion Lutheran ?Church at Athens. I found the series in the library at Syracuse, I assume other libraries would too. I was doing the search in the 1950s and some of the lists were current in those issues. good luck.JOHN C VAN BUSKIRK http://www.geocities.com/vanbus1/ jvanbus1@twcny.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Otte" <edotte@optonline.net> To: <dutch-colonies@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 8:00 AM Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] Kingston Church Ulster Co. baptisms > Depending on the year, churches were mostly run by elders, and lay > ministers. Ordained ministers revolved around a circuit of churches. This > was common early on in the 17th Century and became less common as churches > picked up permanent clergymen. Some of those clergymen were more meticulous > than others and the birthdates were also recorded. Sometimes they were even > so good as to record where the family lived. Many, for example, were > baptized say in Kingston, but lived far away, say Wawarsing. > > So there is some measure of difficulty in figuring out many aspects of the > genealogy of a family or a child of Dutch descent in New York and to some > degree New Jersey. But then again if you have English ancestors from this > same period often there are no written, extant, church records. > > Edward Otte > > -----Original Message----- > From: dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Tom Terbush > Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 10:00 PM > To: dutch-colonies@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] Kingston Church Ulster Co. baptisms > > Availability of ordained minister who could Administer the sacrament. Not > all churches had ministers full-time, thus had to wait until one became > available. > I have ancestors who had all their children who were born during the > Revolutionary War baptized the same day after the war was over. > > Tom Terbush > > -----Original Message----- > From: dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of l. s. > Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 9:32 PM > To: DUTCH-COLONIES@rootsweb.com > Subject: [DUTCH-COLONIES] Kingston Church Ulster Co. baptisms > > Hello, > I went to the online site for these baptisms for this church and while > scanning, I noticed 35 baptisms dated June 20. Then I started checking and I > would see batches of same date baptisms. A great deal of them were on Sept. > 11. I realize these aren't the birth dates. It occurred to me that everyone > with newborns, must have waited for some time to have these babies baptized. > Or was that a custom of the church to do all new births at one time? It is > just something that has got me curious. > Does anyone know why this is? > Leemae from Mi.Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : > http://explorer.msn.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >