Does anyone know what year the law required marriage registration with the city? I have a marriage record from the church but would like more information that a city marriage certificate would supply. The couple married in the year 1907 in what is now the Bronx. Would the New York Municipal Archives have this certificate? Rob

On Tue, 09 Apr 2002 00:10:44 GMT, "Rob Stieglitz" <rstieglitz@prodigy.net> wrote: >Does anyone know what year the law required marriage registration with the >city? I have a marriage record from the church but would like more >information that a city marriage certificate would supply. The couple >married in the year 1907 in what is now the Bronx. Would the New York >Municipal Archives have this certificate? > >Rob > > Yes they would. Go to: http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doris/html/index.html for an application form. Brian Wickham

Whatever the law says, remember that there were (usually) no major consequences to ignoring it. And at the turn of the 20th century, many people felt this was none of the government's business. There will be a 10 to 25 year period of varying compliance levels before it reaches 95%. I read somewhere a few months back, officials believe there is a roughly 2% to 5% non-compliance rate even today. An analysis I did on one county in WV for one year indicated that when the county records were compared to the two local newspapers, not every death mentioned in the paper made it to the records; some deaths were in all three; some were in only one. Which of course raised the issue of how many were in *none*. This was 26 years after the first law requiring deaths be reported. Cheryl Rob Stieglitz wrote: > > Does anyone know what year the law required marriage registration with the > city? I have a marriage record from the church but would like more > information that a city marriage certificate would supply. The couple > married in the year 1907 in what is now the Bronx. Would the New York > Municipal Archives have this certificate? > > Rob