New York Marriage Records Archives

New york city department of health and mental hygiene or new york city marriage bureau.

New york marriage records archives. New york state has created indexes to births marriages and deaths occurring after 1880 for locations outside of new york city. Copies of all records can obtained from the town or city of birth or by contacting the state archives. New york state vital records. A few records may be earlier or later.

To report technical problems with this web site please contact the new york state archives at archinfo nysed gov. The municipal archives provides certified historical birth death and marriage records for the five boroughs of new york city. Founded in 1950 the municipal archives preserves and makes available the historical records of new york city municipal government. The year range represents most of the records.

Due to privacy laws recent records may not be displayed. The indexes cover the entire state outside of new york city and start in june 1880 deaths or 1881 marriages and births birth indexes are made available after 75 years marriage and death indexes after 50 years. Name index to marriage records from the state of new york. Birth indexes have been made available through 1937 only an index entry states only the name of the person date and place of event and state certificate number.

Vital records has marriage records since 1880 for marriage licenses purchased in all of new york state except new york city. The new york state archives is part of the office of cultural education an office of the new york state education department. Yes in most states a basic marriage license log or marriage license index is considered to be public information even if the actual certificates or licenses may have strict privacy rules under the state s vital records laws. New york county manhattan kings county brooklyn bronx county the bronx richmond county staten island and queens county queens contact.

Microfilm copies of these records are available at the family history library and family history centers. Doh keeps divorce certificates for both new york state and new york city. State coverage for albany buffalo and yonkers does not begin until 1914. It does not have records for marriage licenses purchased in all of new york state except new york city which includes the five boroughs.

In new york this was upheld in a new york state freedom of information case from 1993 formally gannett co inc. Dating from the early seventeenth century to the present the municipal archives comprises the largest local government archive in north america. New york state briefly kept marriage records from 1847 to about 1850 and started recording marriages again in 1881. Looking for a marriage record from new york state as part of your genealogy research.

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