FamilySearch Wiki:Project New York/Tasks-Vital Records FHLC

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Description:
This task involves searching for vital records in the FamilySearch Catalog (FHLC) to be placed on the county and town pages.

Instruction
1. Determine the year marriages start and end on the county level by using the Handybook.


 * A. If a year is listed in the book, use the following template under the Marriage heading changing Nassau to your county and replacing 1907 with the year the marriages begin; and replacing 1935 with the year the marriages ended being recorded by the County Clerk.




 * B. If there is are no dates listed, contact Danielle and she will give you the correct date. Using Danielle's information, add it to the following template:


 * C. If there is no marriages on the county level use the following template, replacing Nassau with your county.



2. To locate vital records in the FHLC, do a place name search in the FHLC by typing in your county. If you need more instructions on how to search the FHLC, go to FamilySearch Catalog Place-name Search.

3. Click on the topic Vital Records and review the entries. Add any original records under the appropriate headings of Birth, Marriage and Death.


 * i. Bullet each entry you make.
 * ii. The date should be bolded. Make sure to use the N–dash between the dates and anytime it is used in wiki text. The N–dash is made by holding the alt key and typing 0150.
 * iii. Put the sources in chronological order.
 * iv. Use the FHLC template to list the call number or film number.

Book example:



Film examples:



See the following example for bulleted items:


 * :*1908–1935 Marriage Record Index

4. For substitute records, such as abstracts, transcriptions, and indexes, list them under the appropriate heading Birth, Marriage or Death. Add a sub-heading [type of record] Substitutes in italics (as instructed in Intro task). For books use Chicago Manual of Style. Use these guidelines:

Chicago Manual of Style footnote style (modified):

Book:


 * a. Author(s), followed by a comma
 * b. Title (book titles in italics, with correct capitalization)
 * c. Publication data in parenthesis: Publication place, followed by a colon; Publisher; Year of publication
 * d. Comma, and the page number(s) followed by a period

Access information:


 * e. Link to an online copy, if any, placing any free copies first, followed by a semi-colon.
 * f. WorldCat template ; g. FS Library template:.
 * h. Separate each link by a semi-colon. Add a period at the end. Then give a brief annotation explaining the content, or why, or how a reader would want to use the source.

Example of wikitext:


 * :*1809–1850  Fred Q. Bowman,10,000 Vital Records of Western New York, 1809-1850 (Baltimore,MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1985).Ancestry ($); ; . Abstracted from newspaper marriage and death columns.

5. Except for the Bowman collection listed in number 8 below (abstracts from newspapers statewide), all other substitute records should go in their appropriate heading. For example, if there is an abstract or transcriptions of church records or other newspaper abstracts, put them under their respective headings.

6. After the heading, Death, and the italicized heading Death Substitutes, and any information you may have added to Death Substitutes add Additional Sources as a bolded heading.

7. Under Additional Sources add the following template:




 * a. To create the above template follow these instructions:


 * While in the new FHLC on FamilySearch, select any record under the county's "vital records" topic.
 * 1. Put your county into the search "For" field, i.e. Madison, New York.
 * 2. Click on the county name as it appears beneath what you are typing.
 * 3. Select the vital records at the end of the section.
 * 4. Select any record listed in the section.
 * 5. Under the "Subjects" heading select the link called "New York, (your county)– Vital records".
 * 6. Then click on the blue subject link (i.e. New York, Madison - Vital Records).
 * 7. In the upper left-hand corner you will find a heading titled "Search" containing the term Subject Number. Under that is the heading "For" with a number. Copy the number in the "For" field.
 * 8.Paste the number in the NY FHLC Vitals template (listed above)replacing the number field in the template.
 * 9.Change the name of "county=" to the name of your county.

NOTE: The template links to the FHLC and will show any additional records that are added to the FHLC in the future.

8. If any of the following books apply to your county (those counties that apply are listed in italics before the book information), copy and paste the book information to the county page under each birth substitutes, marriage substitutes and death substitutes heading under Vital Records on your county page. The book information to be copied starts with a semicolon (which isn't easy to see!) and ends with the break symbol. Make sure to put these books in Chronological order with other data already there.

Albany, Clinton, Columbia, Essex, Otsego, Rensselaer, Saratoga,and "Old Dutchess," which, prior to 1812, included the territory of present-day Putnam County: 

Ancestry ($); World Vital Records($); ;. Abstracted from newspaper marriage and death columns.

Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga,Ontario, Ostego,Seneca, Wayne, and Yates:

Abstracted from newspaper marriage and death columns.

Chautauqua, Genesee, Ontario, Steuben, and Wayne:

Abstracted from newspaper marriage and death columns.

Albany, Columbia, Delaware, Franklin, St. Lawrence, and Suffolk:

; . Abstracts of newspaper marriage and death columns.

Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery, Oneida, Schenectady, and Schoharie:

; . Abstracts from newspapers filed at the New York State Library in Albany.

Birth
Birth Substitutes


 * See Town Clerks' Registers of Men who Served in the Civil War in Clinton County in the Civil War section of Military for birth information.

Marriage

 * 1908–1935 at FamilySearch – free; Index.
 * 1908–1935 Marriage Record Index
 * 1908–1926 Marriage Record

Marriage Substitutes


 * 1777–1834 Fred Q. Bowman,10,000 Vital Records of Eastern New York, 1777-1834 (Baltimore,MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1987). Ancestry ($); World Vital Records($); ; . Abstracted from newspaper marriage and death columns.


 * 1830–1880 Benoît Pontbriand, Mariages, 1830-1880, comté de Clinton, New York = Marriages, 1830-1880, Clinton County, New York (Sillery [Quebec]: B. Pontbriand, 1984). ; Contains transcription of church records from the following localities: Plattsburgh (1830) Cooperville (1843) Ausable Forks (1849) Keeseville (1849) Redford (1853) Rouses Point (1856) Champlain (1860) Dannemora (1860) Mooers Forks (1861) Cadyville (1861) Ellensburg (1869) Churubusco (1872). In both English and French.


 * 1864–1881 Virginia Easley DeMarce, Baptisms and burials: St. Edmund's, Ellenburg, New York, St. Philomene's, Churubusco, New York, St. James, Cadyville, New York, Clinton County, 1864-1881 (Plattsburgh, N.Y. (P.O. Box 1256, Plattsburgh 12901): The Society, 1990). ; .Includes indexes to godfathers, godmothers, and maiden names of mothers. Includes notes from cemetery, St. James, Cadyville.

Death
Death Substitutes


 * 1777–1834 Fred Q. Bowman,10,000 Vital Records of Eastern New York, 1777-1834 (Baltimore,MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1987). Ancestry ($); World Vital Records($); ; . Abstracted from newspaper marriage and death columns.


 * See Town Clerks' Registers of Men Who Served in the Civil War in Clinton County in the Civil War section of Military for death information.


 * 1849-50, 1859-60, 1869-70, and 1879-80 See Mortality Schedule information in the Federal Census section of Census for death information for 1849-50, 1859-60, 1869-70, and 1879-80.

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