A clarification on the exchange about a County Registrar of Vital Statistics -- there ain't any such animal. New York collects birth, death and marriage records at the town, city or village level. Registrars of vital statistics in Towns and Villages are the town or village clerks. Cities, like Kingston, do have a separate registrar, so the Registrar for Vital Statistics in Kingston is just for the City of Kingston. So yes, contact the persons given in the answer in Lloyd and New Paltz (with New Paltz, you'll have to consider both the town and the village -- the record could be in either). The village clerk address: Village Clerk, Village of New Paltz, PO Box 877, New Paltz, NY 12561 phone: 914/255/0130 Ray LaFever 22 Old Route 9 Staatsburg, NY 12580 rlafever@juno.com ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.