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elleng

(136,071 posts)
Wed May 5, 2021, 12:29 AM May 2021

Want to learn my mother's birth, marriage and death dates; she died when I was 7 or 8,

Dad remarried several years later and brother Billy and I were adopted; NYS 'obliterated' name/existence of birth-mother on my/our 'new' birth certificates (after adoption.)

Will 'ancestry' places include facts about my birth mother, in spite of NYState's practice? and which of several 'ancestry' places better (and less expensive) than others?

Thanks

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Want to learn my mother's birth, marriage and death dates; she died when I was 7 or 8, (Original Post) elleng May 2021 OP
NY should have her death certificate. Buckeye_Democrat May 2021 #1
I have her parent's names, I remember them (thank goodness,) Grandma and Grandpa! elleng May 2021 #2
Here's a link to NY's vital records. Buckeye_Democrat May 2021 #3
And when you get a crumb of a clue, the Mormons have ASTOUNDING geneological data in their fierywoman May 2021 #4
Yes, FamilySearch.org is free csziggy May 2021 #7
I have a friend who knew nothing of his family. Although his father was married to his fierywoman May 2021 #8
Now, that is interesting! nt csziggy May 2021 #9
(And it's all thanks to the Catholic church and the Mormons!) fierywoman May 2021 #10
Newspapers.com bluestateboomer May 2021 #5
Thanks. elleng May 2021 #6

Buckeye_Democrat

(15,042 posts)
1. NY should have her death certificate.
Wed May 5, 2021, 12:32 AM
May 2021

(Copied and pasted from your other thread.)

That should include her birth date and possibly the names of her parents too.

And they probably have a record of her marriage certificate too.

Some of my ancestors lived in New York back in the 1600's when it was a colony, so I've never looked up those kinds of records there myself. But they surely have all of those types of records going back to at least the early 1900's like many other states.

elleng

(136,071 posts)
2. I have her parent's names, I remember them (thank goodness,) Grandma and Grandpa!
Wed May 5, 2021, 12:35 AM
May 2021

Will look into NYS records.

fierywoman

(8,105 posts)
4. And when you get a crumb of a clue, the Mormons have ASTOUNDING geneological data in their
Wed May 5, 2021, 12:39 AM
May 2021

libraries, which they allow non-Mormons to use.

csziggy

(34,189 posts)
7. Yes, FamilySearch.org is free
Wed May 5, 2021, 08:58 PM
May 2021
https://www.familysearch.org/en/

Sometimes they duplicate Ancestry.com, sometimes they have things that Ancestry does not have and vice versa. FamilySearch.org is a good way to start without spending anything but time.

fierywoman

(8,105 posts)
8. I have a friend who knew nothing of his family. Although his father was married to his
Wed May 5, 2021, 10:09 PM
May 2021

mother, he left just as my friend was born.) He realized that his mother was from Hispañola, NM and traced his origins back to the Spanish conquest of Mexico!

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