www.familysearch.org   You have to register but it's free.  This site is one of the must-haves for genealogy.  Click on 'search', then US, then NY.  Click on the option for all 86 databases for NY.  Look for the three updated on March 20--NYC births, marriages, deaths.  That's where I have found the goldmine. Good luck! Virginia     From: Janis Mundy <[email protected]> To: 'VLB' <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 4:36 PM Subject: RE: [NYC-ROOTS] Share Your Your Successes! Would you please share the complete website address or instructions to get to the NYC birth, marriage, and death records? Thanks. Janis Mundy Reno, NV -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of VLB via Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 1:23 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [NYC-ROOTS] Share Your Your Successes! This is a great idea, Kathleen--thanks.  We all need the encouragement to know that we can break down brick walls. A few months ago I posted that Familysearch.org had just put a lot of NYC birth, marriage, death records free online.  They don't have all the info a full cert might but many have a lot more than the indexes on Italian Gen etc. I have broken down many brick walls thru this site.  Just two:  I found the marriage record of my great-great grandparents in 1863.  I sent for the film, got even more info that let me identify the church.  Then I was able to get the church info.  Yippee! And just last night I found an 1852 death record I had been looking for for five years.  It had the address which I knew was my family from the city directories. Now I hope to find an obit. Virginia