wmayrose@hotmail.com writes:> > > I'm thinking of making a trip to NYC - maybe next week - to spend a day > at the Municipal Archives. > 1) Any weekdays (Mon-Thu) better or worse than others - availability of > readers, etc.? > ==================== BL ANSWER; SEE: (l) List of Holdings: > http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/records/html/vitalrecords/holdings.shtml > (2) First Time Visitors http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/records/html/vitalrecords/visit.shtml ====================== > 2) I'll by arriving at the Port Authority Terminal around 8:00am. Best > subway to take to get to the Archives? ===================== BL ANSWER: Check address on Google. PA is on the West Side of Manhattan. Educated Guess is 1,2,3 subway to Chambers Street/Brooklyn Bridge stop. USE: MTA TRANSIT PLANNER http://travel.mtanyct.info/_start.aspx =================================== > > 3) > I have a newspaper article from July 1897 about a Manhattan homicide in > which one of my ancestors may have been involved. Would either the > District Attorney Records or the Court Records at the Municipal Archives > have detailed information about the incident and subsequent criminal > process? ============ BL ANSWER: Criminal Records are held elsewhere. Email them asking. Please repost their answer. http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/contact/chlibrary.shtml > ============== > Thanks in advance for answers to the above or any other information that > might contribute to a successful trip. > > Bill - Massachusetts Barb NYC Researcher

If you arrive by 10AM you should have no trouble getting a machine to work with. But I suggest you get there as close to 9AM as possible as the time Flies when you are doing research. Use http://www.stevemorse.org to print Out all the possible birth, marriage and death index items that you may need To search as this will save you hours of going through their indexes. This Way you can go right to the certificates. You also have the option of having the staff make you a copy of the vital Record for $11.00 each or just copy by hand the information you find. Diane Jacobs Somerset, Nj -----Original Message----- From: nyc-roots-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nyc-roots-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of MizScarlettNY@aol.com Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 4:49 AM To: wmayrose@hotmail.com; NYBrooklyn@rootsweb.com; NYC-ROOTS@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NYC-ROOTS] [BKLYN] Visit to NYC Municipal Archives wmayrose@hotmail.com writes:> > > I'm thinking of making a trip to NYC - maybe next week - to spend a day > at the Municipal Archives. > 1) Any weekdays (Mon-Thu) better or worse than others - availability of > readers, etc.?