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Vital Records
This page was last updated: Saturday, 15-Aug-2009 13:03:36 MDT
Vital Records were not mandated by New York State until 1880. If you are looking for a birth, marriage, or death record prior to this time period, you must contact the clerk's office of the town, city, or village in which the event was registered. Also check the church or synagogue where the event may also have been registered.
New York State has a 50 year restriction on death records, 75 year restriction on birth records and 100 year restriction on divorce records.
An index of births covering the years 1880 to 1917 and an index of deaths covering the years 1880 to 1942 are available at the New York State Archives in Albany and are open to the public. Please also check the Locality Index at your local Family History Center as copies of these indexes may also be available through them.
Here's an Internet link to the NY State Dept. of Health to learn how you can obtain birth, death and marriage records: www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/consumer/vr.htm.
Please note that, for the following cities, you must contact their City Clerk's registrar directly since they are not likely to be filed at the state level:
- Albany
- Buffalo
- Yonkers — see below.
- New York City (all five burroughs)
For Yonkers, contact the Registrar of Vital Statistics, City Hall, Yonkers, NY 10701 and inquire about their fee structure.
Westchester County Clerk's Office
The main office of County Clerk's office is located in White Plainsand their webpages can be found at www.westchesterclerk.com.
- 110 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Street
- (formerly Grove Street)
- White Plains, NY 10601
- Phone: 914-285-3080
Westchester County Archives
- 2199 Saw Mill River Road, Elmsford, NY 10523
- Phone: 914-592-1925
- Marriage Records, 1908-1930 Personal Name Index
- Online Indexes
Some links giving information concerning Vital Records are:
- - Land Records in Westchester County
- http://www.westchesterclerk.com/land.html
- - New York Division of Vital Records
- http://www.vitalchek.com/
- - Cindy's List, New York Records
- http://www.cyndislist.com/ny.htm#Records
- - New York Indorsed Land Papers, 1643-1676
- http://www.tlc-gen.com/newyork.cfm
- Marriage Index for The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow
- The church is in Sleepy Hollow (formerly North Tarrytown), Westchester County, NY. See the index to the marriage records covering the years 1698 to 1785 (plus one entry in 1788 and one entry in 1790). If you find a marriage record of interest to you, Jean Ann Lupinetti will provide you with the full entry for that marriage record.
Return to Westchester County's Town Index page.
Return to the main page for Westchester County at NYGenWeb.
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