To use the probate reocrds of Hudson County, find the descendants name in the Docket index. The docket index gives the volume, page and case number in the Surrogate's dockets. The Surrogate's dockets index all the various probate records for this county.

Some years are missing. Apparently an older part of the cemetery was called St. Peter's Cemetery and these records are so noted. South blocks follow North ones in the block index cards. Some cards appear out of order on many reels. Block letters and numbers are sometimes mixed in filing and sometimes they change filing order between them. Many of the rolls of Holy Name block records have a map at the beginning of the roll.

Year book for 1903 contains Some early records of the Lutheran Church, New York [was Trinity Lutheran Church, now Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Matthew]. Year books for 1904-1908, 1922-1923 include the records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Albany, 1683-1779. Year books for 1913-1915 include the records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Bergen, New Jersey. Year book for 1916 includes the records of Dominie Henricus Selyns, minister...