Just a couple of points about births and locations and the records thereof. In former times it was not unusual for a first child, or second and third, to be born in grandma's house on the farm. You might have seen the phrase "and she called her women" as a way of saying a woman was in labor. Hospitals were often considered unhealthy places. Besides, who would you want with you at such a momentous time? A stranger doctor and nurse? Or your mother and aunts and sisters, who had had experience in childbirth and, like my own grandmother, had served as a lying-in nurse and perhaps a midwife in upstate (really upstate, not just Yonkers) New York. In this case, you might look for a baptismal record in the grandparents' home church. Another point is that a birth is a command performance of only two people, the mama and the baby. All it tells in geographic terms is that the mother was in that location at that moment. In New York State, a birth, marriage or death is recorded in the smallest jurisdiction in which it occurred, regardless of the residence address. For example, if I went to Crossgates Mall in the next county and shopped until I dropped, my death would be recorded as happening in Guilderland, the location. Nancy in upstate New York <g>