Genealogy of the Fonda Family of Schenectady County, New York

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This page includes information we have collected about the Fonda family as well as links to other sites. Some of this material may relate to areas outside of Schenectady County.

We are unable to answer specific questions about the Fonda family beyond what we have made available here. Try the online forums listed below for more assistance, or use the Schenectady County Public Library's Ancestry subscription in the Karen B. Johnson Central Library.

Family Sites and other information
- Fonda Family Genealogy
- Fonda Family (Rod Davis)
- Our Folk: Fonda Family Genealogy (Albert D. Hart, Jr.)
- Fonda Genealogy (WikiTree)
- Fonda Genealogy and Fonda Family History Information (Geni)
Family and Individual Profiles, Articles, Books etc.
- First Settlers of Schenectady (Jonathan Pearson, 1873)
- History of the Schenectady Patent (Jonathan Pearson, 1883)
- Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs (Cuyler Reynolds, 1911)
- Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs (Cuyler Reynolds, 1911)
- Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs (Cuyler Reynolds, 1911)
- Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs (Cuyler Reynolds, 1911)
- Schenectady County, New York (Austin A. Yates, 1902)
- Account Book of Merchant Jelles Fonda of Caughnawga, 1767. In History of the Mohawk Valley: Gateway to the West 1614-1925, Vol. I, p. 655. (Nelson Greene, 1925) [R 974.7 G81h at the Schenectady County Public Library]
- Fonda: A Family in the Hudson River Valley; a Genealogy of a Line of Fondas (Richard D. Cadier) (FamilySearch, free account required)
- Fonda (Colonial Albany Social History Project)
Mailing Lists / Message Boards / Queries
- Fonda Family Message Board (Ancestry)
- Fonda Family Forum (Genealogy.com)
Find more information on the Fonda family:
- FamilySearch records for Fonda (free account required)
- Census and Directories
  - Indexes to our transcripts of the 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820 and 1940 United States censuses for Schenectady County
  - Our city directories: 1841/2 and the county portion of 1860
  - Search Fonda entries in the 1855, 1865, 1875, 1892, 1905, 1915 and 1925 New York State Censuses (FamilySearch, free account required)
- Births
  - New York Births and Christenings, 1640-1962 (FamilySearch, free account required)
- Marriages
  - New York Church Records, 1660-1954 (FamilySearch, free account required)
  - New York Marriages, 1686-1980 (FamilySearch, free account required)
- Deaths
  - Our Obituary index (includes Capital District records from the 1957-1972 NYS Department of Health Genealogical Research Death Index)
  - New York Church and Civil Deaths, 1824-1962 (FamilySearch, free account required)
  - New York Deaths and Burials, 1795-1952 (FamilySearch, free account required)
  - New York Deaths, 1880-1956 (FamilySearch, free account required)
  - New York Cemetery Abstracts, 1800-1965 (FamilySearch, free account required)
  - New York residents in the Social Security Death Index (FamilySearch, free account required)
  - Gravestone photos (New York Gravestones)
  - New York graves in Find a Grave
  - New York graves in BillionGraves
  - New York graves in Interment.net
  - Nationwide Grave Locator (Veterans Administration)
- Immigration
  - American Family Immigration History Center (Statue of Liberty—Ellis Island Foundation, free account required)
  - New York Book Indexes to Passenger Lists, 1906-1942 (FamilySearch, free account required)
  - New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1891 (FamilySearch, free account required)
  - New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924 (FamilySearch, free account required)
  - New York, New York, Index to Passengers Lists of Vessels, 1897-1902 (FamilySearch, free account required)
  - New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957 (FamilySearch, free account required)
  - New York, U.S. District and Circuit Court Naturalization Records, 1824-1991 (FamilySearch, free account required)
  - Index to Naturalization Petitions, Eastern District of New York, 1865-1957 (FamilySearch, free account required)
  - Index to Naturalization Petitions, Southern District of New York, 1824-1941 (FamilySearch, free account required)
  - Index to Naturalizations, Southern District of New York, 1917-1950 (FamilySearch, free account required)
- Military
  - Revolutionary War service records in History of Schenectady During the Revolution (Willis T. Hanson Jr., 1916) [974.744 H25 at the Schenectady County Public Library]
  - Index to the New York State Civil War Muster Rolls
  - Soldiers in the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database (National Park Service)
  - New York veterans in the World War II Memorial Registry (American Battle Monuments Commission)
- Property
  - New York Land Records 1630-1975 (FamilySearch, free account required)
  - Fonda Family Wills and Related Records (Sampubco)
Print Resources
- Fonda family file at the Schenectady County Historical Society - e-mail librarian@schenectadyhistorical.org for more information
- Fonda entries in Worden's Index (New York Genealogical & Biographical Society)