Don't forget that the NYS Dept. of Healt (non-NYC) civil registation fiche indexes are also available at the NY Regional National Archives location in NYC. ----- Original Message ----- From: <nywestch-request@rootsweb.com> To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 3:00 AM Subject: NYWESTCH Digest, Vol 2, Issue 153 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Birth Records (Foon123@aol.com) > 2. Re: Birth Records (Cliff Lamere) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 10:02:51 EDT > From: Foon123@aol.com > Subject: [NYWESTCH] Birth Records > To: nywestch@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <c0c.16d68829.337f0c0b@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > I am trying to locate birth records for ancestors who lived in Irvington > in > the late 1880s and early 1890s. I sent requests to the Clerk's Office > there > and was told they only have information on people who were born at home > not > in hospitals. (I don't know whether or not these ancestors were born in a > hospital). I even checked with the Town of Greenburgh, Village of Dobbs > Ferry, > but no luck. I have the baptismal records for these ancestors, but was > hoping > to gain some insight into their parents from the birth records. > > Does anyone have any suggestions on where I could research further? Were > births in New York also sent to Albany for recordation? Is it possible > that > these births were never recorded? > > Thank you for any help you can give me! > Shannon > > > > ************************************** See what's free at > http://www.aol.com. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 13:41:17 -0400 > From: Cliff Lamere <clifflamere@nycap.rr.com> > Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] Birth Records > To: nywestch@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <464DE53D.6040205@nycap.rr.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Shannon, > > It is very possible that the births were never recorded. Many more > births were by midwife than by doctors at that time, and some doctors > were poor at reporting. New York City births were not reported to > Albany. They had their own system. The hospital births you mentioned > might have been reported, but I have never heard of a direct link > between hospitals and the state for the sake of reporting. Such > reporting is doubtful. The percentage of births in hospitals at that > time would have been very low. > > Your ancestors may not have been born in the place of baptism. A paid > researcher in Albany could check the NYS Dept of Health Death Index on > microfiche at the NYS Archives for you. It would tell where they were > born, and when. The researcher could also order the birth certificates > for you. If you wish to do that, I can put you in touch with someone. > > Cliff Lamere > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Foon123@aol.com wrote: > >>I am trying to locate birth records for ancestors who lived in Irvington >>in >>the late 1880s and early 1890s. I sent requests to the Clerk's Office >>there >>and was told they only have information on people who were born at home >>not >>in hospitals. (I don't know whether or not these ancestors were born in a >>hospital). I even checked with the Town of Greenburgh, Village of Dobbs >>Ferry, >>but no luck. I have the baptismal records for these ancestors, but was >>hoping >>to gain some insight into their parents from the birth records. >> >>Does anyone have any suggestions on where I could research further? Were >>births in New York also sent to Albany for recordation? Is it possible >>that >>these births were never recorded? >> >>Thank you for any help you can give me! >>Shannon >> >> >> >> > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the NYWESTCH list administrator, send an email to > NYWESTCH-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the NYWESTCH mailing list, send an email to > NYWESTCH@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of NYWESTCH Digest, Vol 2, Issue 153 > **************************************** >