If you’ve ever tried requesting birth or death certificates from your deceased relatives, you know there is a huge backlog. It could take years for you to actually receive your request. So, this is actually big news. New York is making it a whole lot easier to access records without leaving your house.
Thousands of New York Genealogy Records Going Online for Free
The New York State Library and New York State Archives are teaming up with FamilySearch to digitize and share thousands of historical records online, many of which have never been available digitally before.
The goal is to give people access to important ancestry and historical documents from anywhere in the world, not just inside a research library.
What Kind of Records Will Be Available?
Some of the records being digitized are incredibly detailed and locally significant. According to the state, collections include family, local and county histories as well as some genealogy journals and association records.
There’s also a separate effort that’s already made nearly a quarter of a million pages of archived documents available online for the first time…