I spent some time yesterday comparing results on the new NY marriage indexes on Ancestry and the marriages records on the website for the Rochester Municipal Archives. NY State passed a vital records law in 1880 that said records should be sent to Albany. Compliance by some small communities was spotty until 1900. Rochester had …
The indexes to marriages in New York State are online at Ancestry. The credit actually goes to Reclaim the Records who filed the Freedom of Information request to get the indexes out of the NY State Department of Health. In order to compile with the request, the Health Department needed to have their indexes scanned. …
One of the recent books scanned by the Rochester Public Library is “Early Marriages in Rochester, Monroe Co., NY and the Vicinity” by Myrte R. Haynes and Mary T. Douglas. It is a 81 page typed manuscript of marriages from before 1850. On the first page it says that these records are “taken from church …
The Rochester Public Library has added “Early Marriages in Rochester, Monroe Co. and Vicinity” to their online collection of books. It appears to have marriages between 1818 and 1850. It is a typed collection of marriages from early church and newspaper records. This collection was compiled by Myrte Rice Haynes and Mary T. Douglas. There …
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