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- In 1802, the New York City Board of Health began recording deaths and/or burials, but only sporadically. NYCMA holds New York City death registers from 1802-1804, 1808, 1812-1887. These early death records are in Subgroup 3, Series 3.3.
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Index to New York municipal death records. The records come from the five-borough city. The time period varies by borough (county): New York City (Manhattan) 1795-1949, Bronx 1898-1948, Brooklyn 1847-1949, Queens 1898-1949, and Richmond 1898-1949.
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The collection consists of an Index to New York municipal death records. The records come from the five-borough city. The time period varies by borough (county): New York City (Manhattan) 1795-1949, Bronx 1898-1948, Brooklyn 1847-1949, Queens 1898-1949, and Richmond 1898-1949. Additional records and/or images may be added to this collection in the ...
The following information may be found in these records: Death 1. Name of deceased 2. Date and place of death 3. Age in years, months and days 4. Length of residence in community 5. Institution where died 6. Date and place of birth 7. Gender, race, marital status, and occupation 8. Cause of death 9. Parents names, including maiden name of mother 10...
Before searching this collection, it is helpful to know: 1. The name of the person at the time of death 2. The place where the death occurred 3. The approximate death date
When you have located your ancestor’s record, carefully evaluate each piece of information given. These pieces of information may give you new biographical details. Add this new information to your records of each family. The information may also lead you to other records about your ancestors.
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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.
The New York City Municipal Archives (NYCMA) holds historical death records for the five boroughs of the City of New York—the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island—as well as earlier death records from pre-consolidation New York City and from former towns and villages of adjacent counties that have been subsumed into modern ...
Mar 16, 2022 · The New York City Municipal Archives has been working to digitize the millions of birth, marriage, and death records it holds since 2013. With the project now 70% complete, 9,318,625 digitized records from the late 1800s to the early 1900s are now available online as of March 2022.
Mar 18, 2022 · The Department of Records and Information Services launched Historical Vital Records of NYC this week. The site features more than nine million birth, death and marriage records, all freely available to browse, search and download.
FamilySearch has indexed back to the earliest records in New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795–1949, https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2240477.
