There is a project underway by the Family History Library to extract the publicly accessible NYC Birth records, at least for Manhattan. The last I heard the volunteers were told to put this on the back burner until the NY Passenger List extraction for Ellis Island was completed. Many of the later indexes for NYC appear to have already been computerized by the NY City Dept of Health - at least when you request your birth certificate from them you get a computer printout. Whether or not they will ever make this available to the public is questionable. The probability of the records or indexes for NY State outside NY City ever being extracted is next to zero - there are only two places where the indexes are available to the public: in Albany and at NARA in Manhattan. If the NY State Dept of Health ever agrees to allow the indexes or any actual records to be filmed by the FHL, then perhaps it will be a different story. Regards, Charles Sullivan SkyBirdy@aol.com wrote: >Hi All; > I was wondering if (a big IF) the New York Archives will ever put the >death, birth index on-line. It would save us a heck of a lot of time and also >save them a lot of time from people writing in and they have to look up the >index numbers themselves. It would save all a lot of time and work. Deanna >LaVoy-Lewis > > >==== GEN-NYS Mailing List ==== >Have you considered joining the Rootsweb Genealogical Data >Cooperative? > http://www.rootsweb.com/