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The Colonial Albany Project (or Colonial Albany Social History Project) was founded by Stefan Bielinksi in 1980 and was sponsored by the New York State Museum to study the lives of 16,000 ordinary people who resided in Albany from the seventeenth century until the early nineteenth century. The project's purpose was to reconstruct "a people-centered portrait of life as it existed in the city of Albany," and "to illuminate and focus the life story of early Albany through the prism of the lives of each early Albany person." It was designed to promote "human understanding by interpreting the history of the people of a broadly constituted and dynamic community that was the center of a large and emerging region over a two-hundred-year-period." Bielinski served as the Colonial Albany Social History Project's director from the time of its inception.
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