How to Obtain New York Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates
This page provides information on obtaining copies of New
York birth certificates, New York marriage licenses, New
York divorce decrees and New York death records. There are
also useful links to past New York Vital Records for those
of you conducting family history research. General information
about US vital records can be viewed on this site's homepage
New York City Vital Records
New York City birth, marriage and death certificates may be obtained
from the following government office:
Office of Vital Records
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
125 Worth Street, CN4, Rm. 133
New York, NY 10013-4090
New York City birth, marriage and death certificate order forms as
well as more information are available on the following
pages:
The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene may be
contacted by phone on (212) 788-4520 or online at http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/home.html
Remarks:
Office has birth records since 1910 and death records since
1949 for those occurring in the Boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn,
Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island
New York State Vital Records
New York birth, marriage and death certificates may be obtained
from the following government office:
Certification Unit
Vital Records Section/2nd floor
800 North Pearl Street
Menands, NY 12204
New York birth, marriage and death certificate order forms as
well as more information are available on the following
pages:
The New York State Department of Health may be contacted
by phone on (518) 474-3075 or online at http://www.health.state.ny.us/
Remarks: State office has records since 1881
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Birth, Death, Marriage and Divorce Records Online via Vital
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Other New York Vital Records Resources
I have included these additional sites because they may
contain New York vital records (birth records, marriage records,
divorce records or death records) that you might find useful
if you are conducting genealogy research:
NewspaperObituaries.net - New York a
directory of thousands of obituaries with a page of
obituary indexes for each New York county
Search
Vital Records Online search over 400 million records online
Search
Obituaries and Death Records - Over 3 Billion Names
search obituaries and death records in hundreds of newspapers
going back over 200 years
New York Birth Records free online birth indexes for New York
Search
New York Marriage Records Online - a comprehensive collection
of many online marriage databases for New York indexed in
county order
USGenweb
Archives Project - New York USGenWeb is an archive of
free databases including vital and other records such as
marriages, church records, wills,censusesand cemetery records.
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