Without any notice, the NY State Department of Health has put part of their death index online. So far it is very limited with deaths from 1 Jan. 1957 to 28 Feb. 1963. Gail Fischer from the New York State Archives was a speaker at the September 2012 meeting of the Rochester Genealogical Society. During …
Life Records is the name of the index of vital records in Rochester and Brockport newspapers. It was created by staff at the Rochester Public Library. It has been off-line for 18 months because of problems with finding a vendor able to handle the service. The index is now back with some changes on the …
THE LDS website FamilySearch.org has in the past few years added hundred of millions of searchable records many of which will give you online images of the records. In the collection are some records for NY State. This is the first of a series that looks at those NY State records. To see what is …
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The indexes to New York State Vital Records (except NY City) have been placed in the Broome County Public Library, 185 Court Street, Binghamton, NY 13901 (607-778-6400). Those indexes have Birth records (1880-1935), Marriage records (1880-1960) and Death records (1880-1960). This makes ten places that you can see and search the Vital Records Indexes. The …
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Fred Q. Bowman died on 7 November. He is best remembered for his series of books of New York State vital records. His obit in the Albany Times-Union states (in part): Frederick Quimby Bowman, 93, of Albany, N.Y., passed away at St. Peter’s Hospital on November 7, 2009. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. on …
I added two new web pages to the GenWeb of Monroe County website. For the last couple of months I spent some time down at the Monroe County Courthouse. I was copying records of people that had gone to Court to change their name. I went through the first 16 volumes of Miscellaneous Records (to …
I found a link to a page that has one person’s experiences in looking at the NY Vital records indexes in the Rochester Public Library. Barbara French has a good page with photos that shows just how she goes about finding vital records.
If you want to order a certificate, you first have to know that there are some exceptions. The State Department of Health does not have vital records from the Cities of Albany, Buffalo and Yonkers prior to January 1, 1914. To obtain records from these cities for those dates write to: Albany City Clerk, Room …
Most people will tell you that the final attempt at recording vital records in New York State started in 1880. The truth is that some cities began recording vital records before 1880. The City of Albany started in 1870. Syracuse and Utica started in 1873. Rochester and Yonkers started about 1875. Buffalo started in 1878. …
First, I must say that vital records in the present New York City are not included here. I never have had to try to get any vital records from NYC. Check elsewhere on the net for NYC vital records. Most people assume that since New York State was one of the original thirteen colonies that …