Sue, I don't think NY required birth and death registration until 1920, and even then, my mother was born in Essex Co and her birth was not registered until she needed a birth certificate 20 some years later. My great grandmother had a baby who died right after birth and was buried on the farm, nothing recorded except in the family Bible. You may be out of luck unless there is a Bible somewhere recording the baby's birth and death. Mary Slack Maynard Researching Slack, Gregory, Hopper, Bigelow/Bigalow, Nichols, Dunning, Mead, Fish in NY and New England, Nash, Maginn/McGinn, Donahue, Vokes in NY and Ireland, Aird and Crombie in NY and Scotland