Thanks Cathy! I will try that. I had put finding anything aside for a while as it was so discouraging. Hopefully, I will have a break-through this time! Thanks again! Patricia Connors Nowlin ----- Original Message ----- From: "cathy hatcher" <cathhat@yahoo.com> To: <irish-new-york-city@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 8:22 AM Subject: Re: [IRISH-NYC] Birth Certificates and Surprise information > Particia, > > Ancestry.com does include a database of NYC births 1891-1902. This > database gives date of birth and certificate number. If you find a match, > there is a long process you can follow to get a copy of the certificate > through the LDS Family History Library [$2, I think] or a quicker process > can get a copy straight from NYC archives [$10, I think]. The family > address and place of birth should be on the certificate as well as his > parents' names and their places of birth and occupations. > > > Cathy > > Win Nowlin <wnowlin@san.rr.com> wrote: Hello, All! > > My e-mail has been down for sometime and I just picked up on the following > 2 > e-mails today! I missed all the rest of this thread. > My father was born in NYC in 1891 and I haven't found a birth certificate > yet. > I know my Grandparent's names, but that is it. > What database are you accessing? > > Thanks so much!!!!! > > Patricia Connors Nowlin > San Diego, Ca. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 2:18 PM > Subject: Re: [IRISH-NYC] Birth Certificates and Surprise information > > >> Sounds like you need a thorough Directories search to help you track this >> family and their parish. One of my Irish had kids baptized at 5 >> different >> parishes. May 1 was the unofficial moving day in NYC, in the 1800s. >> B McK >> >> >> >> cathhat@yahoo.com writes: >> >> >>> So, here is how this turned out. One child, Thomas, was baptised at St. >>> Raphael's Church on 27 Oct 1891--no other baptisms mentioned. >>> >>> Back to the drawing board. None of the earlier children were in St. >>> Raphael's baptism records, so the family must have switched parishes >>> [parish >>> records (and existence, if I understand correctly) begin in 1886--my >>> grandfather >>> was born in 1888 and is not here. Their sister Anna was baptised at St. >>> Raphael's in 1895 and was married there in 1914 [there is a notation to >>> this effect >>> in the margin by her baptism record]. So, I need to see what parish the >>> family belonged to prior to 1891 if I want to find my grandfather's >>> baptism >>> records. I will also order birth certificates for older siblings to see >>> the >>> "previous births" count. One sibling was born in 1881 and then there is >>> a >>> long break >>> in known births until 1885. Long by the standards of the times :) >>> >>> Someone along the way here told me about St. Raphael's birth records >>> on >>> microfilm--this was a big find: thank you! It was easy to look through >>> this >>> film for family names--as I call other parishes, I'll have a yes or a no >>> reply >>> for the name and general date that I forward to their contact person. >>> >>> Take care to all, and a blessed St. Patrick's Day. >>> >>> Cathy >> >> >> >> >> ************** >> It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & >> Finance. >> (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001) >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > --------------------------------- > Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it > now. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message