Austin's question brings a question to my mind. What's the time frame of your search?  On a business day you would benefit from going to the NYS Archives across the river in Albany to read the indexes and order vital records to be mailed to your home.  That would be deaths, marriages and births, to work backward to 1881,   Nancy Johnsen Curran http://pages.prodigy.net/nancycurran Genealogy research and photography in the capital region of New York State