From a recent newsgroup posting: -------------------------------- Subject: NYC death index, 1891-1911, now online (free) From: <snip> Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 22:48:15 -0500 Our colleagues at Long Island's Italian Genealogical Group have done it again. Led by IGG's John Martino, volunteers from several Long Island genealogy groups have created a new database that is, well, "to die for." Folks, they've created a free online index to New York City deaths, 1891-1911! The index, which covers 1,400,000 records, allows Soundex and wildcard searches for last names and first initial searches for first names. Reflecting the historical boundaries of the city of the city, the index includes only Manhattan deaths for the years 1891 to 1894 and Brooklyn and Manhattan deaths for 1895 to 1897. From 1898 to 1911 all five Boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island) are covered. Microfilmed NYC death indexes for this period are particularly tedious to work with, because they are subdivided by borough and month. Hence a researcher who has no idea of date or place of death needs to look for a name in January, February, March, etc. in Manhattan, then in the Bronx, etc. Caveats: - The index was created by scanning the original index books, then proofreading the results. Many spelling errors present in the original index were carried forward. - The system currently has some glitches. For example, when I searched for "H Wolf," results were 22 pages of Wolfs -- all Wolfs with first names containing the letter H, beginning with Abraham. The IGG website www.italiangen.org also offers indexes to naturalizations in - Southern District Court, Manhattan, 1906-1959 - Nassau County, NY, 1899-1986 - Suffolk County, NY, 1853-1990 - Bronx County, NY, 1914-1952 and to - military naturalizations in the New York area during the two world wars and the Korean Was John's next project: NYC marriage records! ===== ===== Best regards H.A. Kippenhan. Jr.