Rockland County New York Genealogy and History     This site is available for adoption! Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this website become a useful research tool. If you would like to join our group and become the host of this county, please read what we're all about on our Volunteer Page and email Kim (A desire to transcribe data and basic webpage skills are necessary) Until we get a dedicated volunteer to maintain this site, we'll do the best we can to add data as we come across it. You can send your family's raw data (transcribed birth/marriage/death, cemetery, census, biography records) to us and we'll include it on this site. WE REGRET THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO DO PERSONAL RESEARCH FOR YOU. All data we come across will be added to this website, so please keep checking back. County Information County Seat: New City Year Organized: 1798 Square Miles: 174 Courthouse Info: County Courthouse 1 South Main Street New City, NY 10956-3549 Located 15 miles northwest of Manhattan and part of the New York City Metropolitan Area, it is the southernmost county in New York west of the Hudson River, and the smallest county by area in New York outside of New York City. The name derives from "rocky land", as the area was described by early Dutch and English settlers. Rockland's county seat is the hamlet of New City. The county comprises five towns and nineteen incorporated villages, with numerous unincorporated villages (16) and hamlets. Rockland County is designated as a Preserve America Community, and roughly one-third of the county is parkland. [source: wikipedia] There are nineteen incorporated villages in Rockland County, twelve of which are located at least partially in the town of Ramapo: Airmont (Town of Ramapo) * Chestnut Ridge (Ramapo) * Grand View-on-Hudson (Orangetown) * Haverstraw Hillburn (Ramapo) * Kaser (Ramapo) * Montebello (Ramapo) * New Hempstead (Ramapo) * New Square (Ramapo) * Nyack (Orangetown/Clarkstown) Piermont (Orangetown) * Pomona (Haverstraw/Ramapo) * Sloatsburg (Ramapo) * South Nyack (Orangetown) * Spring Valley (Ramapo/Clarkstown) Suffern (Ramapo) * Upper Nyack (Clarkstown) * Wesley Hills (Ramapo) * West Haverstraw (Haverstraw) Rockland County also has a number of unincorporated hamlets, including: Bardonia (Clarkstown) * Blauvelt (Orangetown) * Centenary (Clarkstown) * Central Nyack (Clarkstown) * Congers (Clarkstown) Garnerville (Haverstraw) * Grassy Point (Stony Point) * Hillcrest (Ramapo) * Jones Point (Stony Point) * Ladentown (Ramapo) Monsey (Ramapo) * Mount Ivy (Haverstraw) * Nanuet (Clarkstown) * Nauraushaun, New York (Pearl River) * New City (Clarkstown) Orangeburg (Orangetown) * Palisades (Orangetown) * Pearl River (Orangetown) * Rockland Lake, New York (Clarkstown) * Sparkill (Orangetown) Stony Point (Stony Point) * Tappan (Orangetown) * Thiells (Haverstraw) * Tomkins Cove (Stony Point) * Valley Cottage (Clarkstown) Viola (Ramapo) * West Nyack (Clarkstown) Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Records Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: June 2013: 1890 Veterans Census; Community and Church news items; obit for WILLIAMS; Crime News story for ALCOTT Previous Updates: Obit for GOLDHAGEN Search Our Sites | Join Our Mailing Lists (New York is covered on the Northeast Mailing List)       Visit our NY State Site Surrounding Counties Orange Westchester Putnam County - NE across the Hudson River Passaic County, New Jersey (west) Bergen County, New Jersey (south) Visit the National Genealogy Trails Site       Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.