The NYC Historical Vital Records Project The New York City Municipal Archives is undertaking a mass digitization project to provide online access to 13.3 million historical birth, death, and marriage records. This collection consists of historical vital records created and/or maintained by the City of New York, and historical vital…
The New York City Geographical Birth Index is unusual in that it lists births by the street address of the child’s residence. The index records all births in New York City from approximately 1880 to 1912. In older records, there are so many name variations that you might miss a…
Starting in January 2020, all New York adoptees over the age of eighteen will be able to get their original and unredacted birth certificates. New York will become the 10th state to restore the right to adoptees to obtain their birth record, which will name their birth mother. Descendants of…
