If I need to look up information regarding Alexander van rensselaer, born 1814, son of Stephen and Cornelia Patterson, would I turn to your website or an Albany website? In my gggrandmothers family bible there is a lock of hair and a note that says Alexander van Rensselaer B. 1814 son of Stephen. I wonder why she has it as she was only born in 1840 in Ireland. She may have worked as a young servant to his family as she married my gggrandfather at the age of 15/16 in 1856. Would her name (Rachel McBeth) be mentioned on any of the local census' (maybe 1850 or 1855) thanks