Welcome!

Our site is intended to inform the public about our records and our services at our only office, here in our new location at 32 North Russell Road. Together with the Albany County Hall of Records we were the first Albany County department to develop a web site.

Here's a quote from my welcome at the Hall of Records site:

There are some records keepers who are overly possessive about "their" records. Genealogists (and others who work in researching older records) are well familiar with people who "preserve" records by never letting anyone else get near them. You will find that this is not the case here. We are here to help you locate what you need to find, and this web site - and our other outreach efforts - are ways that we do so.

Any organization that holds tens of millions of pages of information, as we do here, can't really make much of that information available on a handful of web pages. What we can do is make you aware of what kinds of information we have, and when and how to get at it. By law, we charge fees for our services that keep us from being a burden on the taxpayers. (We actually generate a modest surplus every year, which goes to reduce County property taxes.) A copy of our fee schedule is available on this web site for your information.

The people of Albany County have made this page possible. We appreciate their support, and we welcome your electronic visit to the Albany County Clerk's office. We hope that you will have the opportunity to stop in at our office in person.