Are any of these New York state vital records available on microfilm/fiche through the LDS Family History Library system? -- Colleen At 12:04 AM 8/31/98 -0400, you wrote: >For those of you daunted by search fees ranging from $21 to $81 for >NYS vital records, one can save money by going to the State Library in >Albany to search through the birth, death & marriage indexes on >microfiche. Indexes begin in 1881. If you find what you want and >walk downstairs to the Health Dept. in the same building, you can get >the certificate for the $11 fee. You do not get the certificate at >that time. They mail it to you in 2 or 3 weeks. > > As someone pointed out specific for Broome County (applies to others >as well), wills and land records can be obtained from the County and >birth, death & marriage records from the towns. For old wills and >letters of administration in Broome Co., if one does the search >themselves through the indexes, one can get the pages copied for 50 >cents per page. > > >==== SURNAME-QUERY Mailing List ==== >APPROPRIATE SUBJECT LINES: > In an effort to provide meaningful Subject: lines in posts to the > SURNAME-QUERY List, the Listowner asks you to try to adhere to the > following format: > > SURNAME, First MI;dates;places > > An example would look like this: > > BROWNING, Arthur C.;1795-1876;PA>VA>OH > > Users of this SURNAME-QUERY List do not download every day in order > to read each of the hundreds of posts. They are looking for certain > SURNAMES, on which they are doing research, or are willing to help > others with research of said SURNAMES. Therefore, if you do not > provide meaningful Subject: lines, chances are good that your posts > will be deleted without having been read. > > Also, the accepted standard in conducting genealogy research via > the Internet/Web is to spell all SURNAMES in CAPS. > > > > > >