Your best bet is to find someone to look in the NYS Vital Records index. These can be found in the NYS Archives in Albany, located in the NYS Library Bldg, the Onondaga Co. Library in Syracuse, NY and in the Rochester Public Library in Rochester, NY. This will tell you the exact City, Village or Town Clerk's address. (They are not usually located with the County Clerks!) Before 1850 neither the federal nor the state censuses list all the family members, just the heads of household and the number of others in the family by sex and in age groups. Therefore the first NYS census that would probably help you is the 1855 one. The NYS index excludes NYC and a few other large cities I believe Buffalo is one. Esther Griffin, Binghamton, NY