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Vital Records in New York State
Civil registration of births, marriages and deaths in the State of New York was
first required by Chapter 152 of the laws passed in 1847. The record keeping
under this law was to be
done by the clerk of each school district, who would report these records to
the appropriate town clerk who would in turn report to the county clerk. The
records, or an abstract, would be then sent to the Secretary of State. The law
was poorly written and not very easily enforced. On December 19, 1850 the
Secretary of State wrote to all County Clerks:
Although most action under this law seems to have stopped at the end of 1850,
the actual law stayed on the books until 1885. In Chapter 270 of that year's
laws, paragraph 9 repealed "Chapter one hundred fifty-two of the laws of 1847."
Another attempt by the state to collect death records was begun in 1864 in
which the assessor of each town or ward was directed to accumulate the data.
(Chapter 380) This law was repealed in 1865. (Chapter 723)
An improved law for vital records was not subsequently enacted until 1880, when
registration was put under the jurisdiction of the New York State Department of
Health.
Source:
A Guide to Vital Records in the Collection of the Saratoga County Historian's Office
, by Lynn Calvin.
Vital Records in Saratoga County
Bible Records
Other Vital Records
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See many entries in Diaries included on the "Scrapbooks" page.
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The Records of New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
Mr. James E. Hazard, working with the original records at Friends Historical
Library of Swarthmore College, completed a name index to New York Yearly
Meeting in 2005. This index is now on-line, and includes all of the monthly
meeting minutes and vital records that were on deposit at Swarthmore to that
date.
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Miscellaneous Marriage Records by Rev. John M. Webster, Schuylerville NY
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Miscellaneous Published Vital Records
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Durkee's Scrapbook #1, 1878 Marriages from Newspaper Clippings
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Durkee's Scrapbook #1, 1878 Deaths from Newspaper Clippings
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Durkee's Scrapbook #1, 1879 Marriages from Newspaper Clippings
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Durkee's Scrapbook #1, 1879 Deaths from Newspaper Clippings
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Durkee's Scrapbook #1, 1880 Marriages from Newspaper Clippings
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Durkee's Scrapbook #1, 1880 Deaths from Newspaper Clippings