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 near Westgate in Albany. Together with the Albany County Hall of Records we were the first Albany County department to develop a web site, and we hope that you find this site useful and informative.

If you're a first-time visitor, let me suggest that you start by clicking "Services" at the upper left of this screen. If you need directions to our office or our office hours, click "Driving Directions," also at left. Our "Forms Available Online" include DBA forms and those for requesting Public Information/FOIL. Our most popular website feature is "Deeds and Mortgages Online," which allows you to view most recorded deeds and mortgages since 1980 right from your computer; that link is at the left side of this page.

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.