This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/8423.1 Message Board Post: All birth, death certificates and marriages done by Justice of the Peace were lost in a horrific fire in 1881 in the Ogdensburg Opera House. Maybe the JP kept his own private records in his home. I would check with the Ogdensburg Public Library and see if they have anything .