Barbara - Please tell me how to get a Certificate # from Indexes available on microfilm thru Family History Centers? Please tell me where and how to start, I am new to all of this. I would like to find Marriage, Birth & Death Records in the 1850's in NYC. All 3 in the same family (my brickwall). I would be so appreciative, if I could find some names and dates. All I have is my ggrandmother's name, birth date in NY. My brickwall is her parents names. They died and she was placed in an orphanage when very young and apparently she did not know their names. Her father was from Ireland and her mother from NY. Her name was Mary Josephine RILEY, b. May 6, 1852 in NY and that is all I know. Is that enough to start on? Berta Grand Junction, Colorado