New York City Death Index is a work in progress. Currently it includes the following:

Manhattan: 1868 to 1894
Brooklyn: 1862 to 1897
New York City (All Boroughs):1898 to 1948
 

Now the volunteers of the Genealogy Federation of Long Island have put these records in a very searchable database that will enable you to search with just a push of the button. There are over 2,000,000 records in this database. More will be added as they are completed.

This index was accomplished by scanning the original printed index books and required no typing. One man did all the scanning, Bob Boeckle of the German Genealogy Group. Bob devoted most of his waking hours to scanning and formatting the data into an OCR program. Other volunteers were used for proofreading and editing.

We have received a few questions concerning an age of 999 years. Where the age was unknown a "999 y" was entered. When the date was unknown a 99 was used as the day, and when the certificate number was unknown a "99999" was used. This was not a decision made by us, this is what is printed in the index.

This project of The Genealogy Federation of Long Island was coordinated by Mr. John Martino. If you would like to contribute time to other current projects, please contact Mr. Martino.

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