FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject New York/Tasks-Vital Records Cyndi’s List

WikiProject New York Progress Chart  Tasks - Vital Records: Cyndi’s List

DESCRIPTION: This task involves searching for vital records available on Cyndi’s List to be placed on county and town pages. INSTRUCTIONS:

1. In New York, very few vital records are kept on the county level. Most are kept on the town level. However, it is important to check in the event there are original records or abstracts. Once on the town page, add the information about the collections using the format given on this page. You will use the same guidelines for the county as you will for town vital records.

2. To locate available records, go to http://www.cyndislist.com and click on “Categories.” On the Categories page, select New York which is under the heading “United States.” Select “Counties” and then the appropriate County. Choose “Birth, Marriage, Death” from the “Category Index” on the County page.&lt;br&gt; 3. If there are any links to Linkpendium or USGenWeb, these links are included in separate tasks. You do not need to include these links twice.

4. Review the entries and add any original records under the appropriate headings on the county or town pages. If there is only one original record, indent, but do not bullet. The date should be bolded.

See the following example: :*1888-1907 Marriage records.

For non-bulleted items remove the *



5. For substitute records, such as abstracts, transcriptions, and indexes, list them under the appropriate heading. Add a sub-heading Substitute [type of record] records in bold. 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: (To find the access information, you will need to check WorldCat, Internet archive, and Google books to learn if these books are located there) e. Link to free online copy, if any. IF a free online copy is available, list this first, then add: f. WorldCat template. g. FHL template:. h. Brief annotation explaining the content, or why, or how a reader would want to use the source.

Marriage
1875 Vital Records from the 1875 Oneida Co., NY Census Courtesy of Rootsweb. 471 marriages include names for the bride and groom, the date of marriage, the city or town where they were married, and the clergy officiating at the marriage.

Substitute marriage records 1813–1850 Fred Q. Bowman,10,000 Vital Records of Central New York, (Balitimore,MD:Genealogical Pub. Co., 1986). Ancestry($); At various libraries; FHL Book 974.7 V2bf. Abstracted from newspaper marriage columns.

Death
1875 Vital Records from the 1875 Oneida Co., NY Census Courtesy of Rootsweb. 1,233 deaths in Oneida County include name, age, sex, color, marital status, death of death, native state or country, trade, occupation, cause of death, and census town.