How to Obtain New York Vital Records
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 Vital Records 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 vital records 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 Vital Records may be obtained
from the following government office:
Certification Unit
Vital Records Section/2nd floor
800 North Pearl Street
Menands, NY 12204
New York vital records 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:
Social
Security Death Index 
search over 80 million names - The Social Security Death
Index (SSDI) is a database that contains the names of deceased
persons who were assigned Social Security numbers and whose
deaths were reported to the SSA. These records usually include
a full name, birth and death dates, and last known residence
Search
New York Marriage Records Online - a comprehensive collection
of many online marriage databases for New York indexed in
county order
Search
New York Birth, Marriage & Death Records 
online databases of vital records
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.
World
Vital Records search over 800
million US names including marriage records, divorces and
death records
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