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Check the status of your order. The NYC Health Department issues certificates to people who are born or who die in New York City (The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island).
You can order a birth certificate online, by mail or in person. You cannot order by email. We recommend ordering online through VitalChek, which is the fastest way to receive your certificate. You may apply for a New York City birth certificate if: You were born in New York City.
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.
This collection contains text searchable images of the official New York City birth index produced by the NYC Department of Health. Organized by year, names are arranged alphabetically by the first letter of the last name.
You can order birth and death certificates online, by mail or in person. You cannot order by email. Certificate corrections can only be requested by mail or in person. All in-person orders require an appointment. Click here to schedule an appointment online.
Indexes of the birth, death, and marriage records contain certificate numbers, and can be searched on: Ancestry. German Genealogy Group. Italian Genealogical Group. FamilySearch. By Name beta. Searching by name is in beta mode and may not produce accurate results.
Jul 31, 2024 · After 1898, birth records for New York City are available from the New York City Municipal Archives and are organized by Borough. Record for this time period are also available on microfilm at the FamilySearch Library or some FamilySearch centers.
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.
You can order a certified short form or long form copy of a birth certificate for someone born in New York City in or after 1910. The NYC Health Department only accepts requests for NYC birth certificates.
Aug 12, 2024 · 7 Citing This Collection. What is in This Collection? The collection consists of an index to birth records from New York City including Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, and Richmond boroughs. The collection covers the years 1846 to 1909.
