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| New York Vital Records |
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| Please click on the appropriate section to find out more specific information about how to acquire copies of New York birth certificates, New York death records, New York marriage licenses, and New York divorce decrees. Please note that rules and regulations for obtaining vital records may differ by state and by type of record requested. |
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For example, getting California birth certificates may have different rules than acquiring New York birth certificates and Texas death records may be different than Texas divorce decrees. Please click on the appropriate state and records area for the guidelines, contact information, and procedures, and links, for obtaining the vital record you are searching for.
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| Birth and Death records are filed with the Clerk of the city, town or village in which the event occurred and, often, with the New York State Bureau of Vital Records. |
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| A marriage license may sometimes be obtained from the town or city clerk who issued the license. The fee is $10.00 for a certified copy. |
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| Since 1847 divorce actions in New York have been handled in the supreme court for the county in which the divorce was heard. New York divorce files, however, are sealed for one hundred years. |
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| An index to genealogy records is available for searching at the State Archives, located at the Empire State Plaza in Albany. Contact (518) 474-8955 for more information about using this index. The indexes at the New York State Archives in Albany, NY do not include those for the boroughs of New York City. |
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