Where can one view these microfiche? What library has these? Carol At 03:13 PM 5/1/97 -0400, you wrote: >New York State maintains an index of births (also deaths and marriages) on >microfiche. Older >records (75 years perhaps) are available for the public to browse. >Not only don't you need the exact date of birth, you don't even need to know >the exact year! > I've spent a lot of time browsing these records, very profitably. I'm >astonished that Pennsylvania >doesn't do the same. Of course once you have the information you still have to >order the certificate, >but that's a much smaller problem. > >