Citation Saturday - New York City Birth, Marriage and Death Records

Example Source Citations for the New York City Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes on FamilySearch

Re-posted from GeneaMusings by Randy Seaver 26 March 2015


Many of us have ancestors that came to this country through Ellis Island in New York City. Some of them moved on to other parts of the country, but many of them stayed in the area and settled down. Randy Seaver, in his blog, GeneaMusings, recently blogged about the new FamilySearch records released for New York City Birth, Marriage and Death indexes and shared his wisdom on how to cite those records. He did such a great job that I decided to share his post with you as part of our Citation Saturday series.

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After FamilySearch released the New York City Birth, Marriage and Death indexes last week, I started "mining" the three collections for Seaver persons, hoping to find more accurate content (names, dates, places, spouse's maiden name, parents names, etc.) than I had in my database. In some cases, I did not have the person in my database, which led to some online research to try to connect the person to parents in my database.

In the process of adding content, I needed to also add source citations for the records. In this post, I want to provide some example source citations for the three record collections:

1) Births:

I was able to add a birth date, birth place and middle name for the birth of Philip Barber Seaver. The parents names are always given. The source citation is:

"New York, New York City Births, 1846-1909," indexed database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org : accessed 26 March 2015), Philip Barber Seaver entry, 10 August 1905.

2) Marriages:



I was able to add a marriage date and place for the marriage of Alfred L. Seaver and Anna Allen Brown. The parents names, approximate birth years and birthplaces of both persons are usually given. The source citation is:

"New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1866-1938," indexed database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org : accessed 26 March 2015), Alfred L. Seaver and Anna Allen Brown entry, 15 April 1919.

3) Deaths:

I was able to add a death date and death place for Philip Barber Seaver. The parents names are sometimes given. The source citation is:

"New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949," indexed database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org : accessed 26 March 2015), Philip Barber Seaver entry, 12 August 1905.

If researchers use these record collections, they can copy and paste these source citations into their database, and substitute names, event date and access date for their own findings.

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