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Genealogical Federation of Long Island

New York City Vital Records Now Online for Free

March 22, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

nyc birth certificateThe largest collection of publicly available New York City birth, marriage, and death records is now online and free to access.

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 1860s to the early 1900s are already available online.

The completely digitized collection will include records of birth (1866–1909), death (1862–1948), and marriage (1866–1949). The new vital records was released following legal efforts by Reclaim The Records, and is based on an index created by the Genealogical Federation of Long Island (GFLI) who used the microfilmed card file to create the indexes.  [Read more…] about New York City Vital Records Now Online for Free

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Archives, Family History, Genealogical Federation of Long Island, Genealogy, New York City, NYC Archives, NYG-B

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