For NY State, vital records (other than the state keeping COPIES of them) starts in the local clerks office where the event took place. So you would go to the town, village or city where they were married. Vitals are not kept on a county level. Just a hint when your looking for birth or death. Lets take my kids for example, we lived in Alabama in Genesee County, NY. BUT my children were born at Medina Hospital in Orleans county, NY. So if they need a copy of their birth certificate, I have to go to the Medina village office to get it. Same thing with death. Lets say Mr. Jones lived in Medina all his life, he died while visiting his brother in Buffalo in Erie County, NY. Since he would be pronounced dead in Buffalo, that is where his death certificate would be filed, in the city of Buffalo. Just other things to think about when you are looking for vital records and you can't find them in a town you knew they were living in. -- Cindy Amrhein Town of Alabama Historian Genesee Co., NY ********************** Historian's Page - Alabama, NY http://www2.pcom.net/cinjod/historian/ Experience the town of Alabama in Genesee County, New York. History, tombstone inscriptions, census records, history of the Tonawanda Seneca Indians and the Iroquois. Enjoy a good murder mystery? Read about the murders of Polly Frisch. APHNYS (The Association of Public Historians of New York State) http://www.tier.net/aphnys/ Genesee County, NY website. Includes History Department, (under "Historian") http://www.co.genesee.ny.us/ The Genesee Area Genealogy Society lists the names and addresses for all the Genesee & Wyoming County Historians http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygags/hist.htm

I'd like to add one more wrinkle to this discussion. I'm not sure how the marriage law read in 1912, but I am an Interfaith Minister in NY State and I know how it reads now: a couple can obtain a license in any municipality in the State and marry in any other municipality. The officiant must return the license to the issuing municipality's Clerk's Office, not to the one where they married. This means that a couple could obtain a license in Buffalo and marry in New York City. I know that would be rare, but I'd suggest that if you can't find the license in, say, Marlboro, Ulster Co., you check in Newburgh, Orange Co. or Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co. In other words, look in surrounding Towns and cities. Hope that helps a little. Joy Weaver -- mail to: [email protected] Locations of Long Island Friends Meetings: http://www.nyym.org/liqm Outline trees for: HALLOCK, HEAD, PALMER, SELDEN at: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/w/e/a/Joyce-R-Weaver/ USA (northeast): Burnside, Green, Hallock, Head, Merritt, Morris, Palmer, Selden, Weaver./ CANADA (ON/QC): Brown, Clark, Grant, Weaver./ ENGLAND(Lanc.): Hunt, Wall. POLAND (Krasnik, Zaklikow, Lublin): Blumberg, Fogiel, Rozenel./ BELARUS (Wisoke-Litovsk, Brest, Grodno): Feinberg, Vilner, Greenberg, Petrusnitz, Deibach.