FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject New York Death Index

Purpose
Add an important death index to the New York county pages.

Task List
Task List

Instructions
1. Go to the task list and sign up for a span of counties.

2. In the first county, go to Death subheading in the Vital Records heading at the bottom of the county page. ***DO NOT ADD THESE COLLECTIONS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES/BOROUGHS: Bronx, Brooklyn/Kings, Staten Island/Richmond, Manhattan/New York, and Queens.

3. Most likely you will have to add a subheading just above the Death Substitutes subheading and below the Death intro template. Add the following if necessary: (Note: This is not a real heading but instead a heading in italics.)

Death Indexes

4. Copy and paste the following databases under Death Indexes subheading. If there are already death indexes listed on the page, be sure to keep them in chronological order. However, make sure you do NOT list them under the Death Substitutes heading. :*1880-1956 - New York, Death Index, 1880-1956 at Ancestry — ($), index only :*1957-1963 - at FamilySearch — Index only

5. If the database is already listed on the page, take off the old version and add this version of the collection.

6. Preview the page to make sure the links work and it is formatted correctly.

7. In the Edit Summary field, enter "added death links" and save the page.

Example
Death Indexes
 * 1880-1956 - New York, Death Index, 1880-1956 at Ancestry — ($), index only
 * 1957-1963 - at FamilySearch — Index only

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.
 * 1795–1952 at FamilySearch Historical Records – free; Index. The entries are primarily from the IGI along with some entries derived from compiled and original records such as Family Records, Church Records, and Civil Registration. There may be entries that cite a specific source.
 * 1801–1890 Barber Collection- Newspaper Deaths at Ancestry– ($); Index. Information extracted from the "Brooklyn Eagle" and the "New York Evening Post."