Dick, tks for yr email. Just to let you know, I have just emailed the Onondaga Library and asked for a look up. Fingers crossed on this one. Regards and Thanks Mike Greatorex Harrogate, England Looking for all Greatorex's from North Nottinghamshire, Sheffield, Orange Co, NY, USA, Florida and Alabamha, USA. http://www.freewebs.com/greatorexfamily/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Hillenbrand" <nygenes@gmail.com> To: <nyorange@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 8:37 PM Subject: Re: [NYORANGE] NY State Records at Albany > > Mike Greatorex, > > You can go, or have someone go to the New York State Archives to look > them up but bear in mind the NYS index starts in 1880. There were no > laws previous to that date that required vital records to be recorded. > There is one exception in that they tried to implement a VR program > in 847 but it is very spotty, and lacking. The ones that do exist > only span 1847, 1848 and 1849 and they are scattered hither and yon. > You have to search for them at the county level. > > The Onondaga County Public Library in Syracuse, New York has a copy of > the microfiche index set of the master statewide VR index, and they > have offered to do free look ups with some limitations. > > I wrote about it on my blog that you may read here: > http://www.unyg.com/blog/index.php/tag/nys-vital-records/ > > Hope that helps. > > Dick Hillenbrand > Upstate New York Genealogy > www.unyg.com > > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Mike Greatorex > <mgreato@jmgreatorex.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: >> A question, is it possible to go to the NY State Records, which I think >> is in Albany, and search >> the Birth/Marriage and Death indexes like we do over here in England. The >> indexes provide >> only a little detail but once you have identified a likely candidate, you >> can then order a copy >> of the certificate, be it Birth/Marriage or Death. >> >> Have just been looking at the State website and to be honest its not >> cheap so was looking to >> see if its possible to search the records first, before committing money >> to the Records office. >> >> Regards >> >> Mike Greatorex >> Harrogate, England >> Looking for all Greatorex's from North Nottinghamshire, Sheffield, Orange >> Co, NY, USA, Florida and Alabamha, USA. >> http://www.freewebs.com/greatorexfamily/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NYORANGE-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 > NYORANGE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >