Researching New York Vital Records

New York State did not require towns to record vital records prior to 1880. This can make finding vital records for your ancestors a real challenge, if you don't know the resources available to you. Here are some resources to help you in your quest:
New York Marriage Licenses Previous To 1784 records the names of persons for whom marriage licenses were issued by the Secretary of the Province of New York previous to 1784.
New York Church records is the greatest source for early vital records. These records generally include birth, marriage, death, baptism records and membership lists.
The New York State Vital Records, 1847-1849 collection has birth, marriage and death records for the years of 1847-1849. New York State enacted a law in 1847 to require school districts to record Vital Records including birth, marriage and death records within their districts. However, some areas completely ignored the law and others adhered to it, but generally did not keep complete records, even for the years that were recorded. Unfortunately this law was terminated in 1849.
New York Mortality Schedules were completed in the federal census records in 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880. The New York State census records included mortality schedules in their 1855, 1865, and 1875 census records. In addition, New York State included veteran's mortality schedules in their 1865 state census records and marriage records in their 1865 and 1875 state census records.
Many New York vital records were lost or destroyed in fires making it even more challenging to find our New York ancestors. Perhaps these sources many be of great benefit to you in your quest in breaking down some of your brick walls.

1883 List of Pensioners on the Roll

The 1883 List of Pensioners on the Roll is the leading resource for researching your Civil War and War of 1812 era pension records.

On December 8, 1882, the U.S. Senate required the Secretary of Interior to submit a list of pensioners on the roll as of January 1, 1883. The Secretary of Interior submitted the completed list to the Senate on March 1, 1883, and was published that year in five volumes as "List of Pensioners on the Roll, January 1, 1883."

The 1883 Pensioners on the Roll includes the name of each pensioner, the cause for which pensioned, the Post Office address, the rate of pension per month, and the date of original allowance.

The contents of each volume is as follows:

• Volume I - Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, and District of Columbia.
• Volume 2 - New York, and Pennsylvania.
• Volume 3 - Ohio, Illinois, and Iowa.
• Volume 4 - Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, California, Oregon, Nevada, Indian Territory (Oklahoma), Dakota Territory (North and South Dakota), New Mexico Territory, Montana Territory, Washington Territory, Idaho Territory, Utah Territory, Arizona Territory, Alaska Territory, Wyoming Territory.
• Volume 5 - Delaware, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and foreign countries.

Much of the 1883 List of Pensioners on the Roll is now transcribed and online free of charge.

Revolutionary War Pension Records

New Horizons Genealogy now has one of the largest collection of Free Revolutionary War Pension records online. Federal and state military pension lists for the Revolutionary War have been published for the years 1792 to 1795, 1813, 1818, 1820, 1832, 1835 and 1840. These pension lists can provide the soldier’s name and his heirs, age, death date, and service information. Pension records usually contain more genealogical information than service records making pension records an essential resource for researching your Revolutionary War ancestors.

Revolutionary War Pension Records:

• 1813 Pension List
• 1818 Pension List
• 1820 Pension List
• 1832 Pension List: Connecticut
• 1832 Pension Roll: Vermont
• 1832 Revolutionary War Pension List Monroe County, New York
• 1840 Census of Pensioners
• Pensioners Of Revolutionary War Struck Off The Roll
• Continental Officers Who Died In Service Or Were Killed In Action Before May 28, 1778

1847 - 1849 New York State Vital Records

New York State enacted a law in 1847 to require school districts to record Vital Records including birth, marriage and death records within their districts. However, some areas completely ignored the law and others adhered to it, but generally did not keep complete records, even for the years that were recorded. Unfortinately this law was terminated in 1849.

New Horizons Genealogy is working on locating and transcribing these records and posting them to our website. We have also linked to most of these vital records found on other websites in an attempt to make this the most complete of a collection as possible.

These 1847 - 1849 New York State Vital Records may be found here: 1847 - 1849 New York State Vital Records

This is an on going project and we are adding new records every week, so if you don't find what you are looking for, keep checking back.

1774 Rhode Island Colonial Census

The 1774 Rhode Island Census contains over 9,000 records which provide the family surname, name of the male head of the family, number of white males both above and under age 16, the number of white females above and under age 16, and the number of Indians, Blacks and total number of people living in the household. All towns are complete, except for the town of New Shoreham.

New Horizons Genealogy now has the complete 1774 Rhode Island Colonial Census fully transcribed, proof read and online. As with all of our records they are 100% free Enjoy!

Jewish Cemeteries Found in the Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions for Fairfield County Connecticut

These are all the Jewish Cemeteries I found in the Charles R. Hale collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions as found in the Connecticut State Library. All the cemetery records for the cemeteries, marked as transcribed, may be found on my website:

Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions

Danbury
404-15 Children of Israel (Jewish) Cemetery

Darien
405-15 New Jewish Cemetery - Transcribed
405-17 Old Jewish Cemetery

Fairfield
407-7 Cong. B'Nai Israel Cemetery - Transcribed
407-8 Cong. Rodeph Sholem Cemetery - Transcribed
407-10 Jewish Cemetery - Transcribed
407-11 Jewish, Eintracht Cemetery S. & B. Soc. - Transcribed

Greenwich
408-65 Jewish Cemetery

Shelton
409-8 Cong. Sons of Israel Cemetery

Stamford
418-4 Agudath Sholom - Jewish Cemetery - Transcribed
418-28 Temple Beth El Cemetery - Transcribed

Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions

New Horizons Genealogy Content Update

At New Horizons Genealogy we are consistantly adding new content to our site every month. We want to keep our viewers updated on newly added records. Below is a list of what we have added to the site in the month of March 2009.

1840 Census of Pensioners

• New Jersey


• New York




• Hamilton County


• Herkimer County


• Jefferson County


• Lewis County


• Livingston County


• Monroe County




• Vermont




• Franklin County


• Chittenden

New York Colonial Census Records

• 1689 Ulster County Colonial Census


• 1776 Town of Southampton, Suffolk County - East of Watermill

New York State Census Records

• 1825 Fulton County State Census Index, Town of Johnstown


• 1825 Fulton County State Census Index, Town of Stratford


• 1825 Hamilton County State Census Index, Town of Hope


• 1825 Hamilton County State Census Index, Town of Lake Pleasant


• 1825 Montgomery County State Census Index, Town of Florida

1774 Rhode Island Colonial Census

• Town of Barrington, Bristol County


• Town of Coventry, Kent County


• Town of East Greenwich, Kent County


• Town of Warwick, Kent County


• Town of West Greenwich, Kent County


• Town of Jamestown, Newport County


• Town of Charlestown, Washington County

Connecticut and New York Cemetery Records

Hale Collection has just reached it's first milestone since it's launch, just over a year ago. We have now transcribed and published over one hundred Connecticut cemetery records from the Charles R. Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions, most of which are not found anywhere else on the Internet. Hale Collection has also linked to many other Hale Collection Cemetery Records in an effort to make this resource as complete as possible.

The New Horizons Genealogy website is now reaching it's first milestone in transcribing the early (pre 1940) New York Cemetery Records. New Horizons Genealogy now has about one hundred New York Cemetery Records, transcribed and published to the Internet, and many of these cemetery records are now found anywhere else on the Internet. We also have a section of the website devoted to Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in New York State. Access is free and there are no subscription fees.

The Charles R. Hale Collection Numbering System

The Charles R. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions, uses it's own unique numbering system. If you understand how this numbering system works, it can save you a lot of frustration. In our website www.hale-collection.com we use this numbering system.

Sample Hale Collection Cemetery Number

712-1

The first digit (7) is the county number. The Connecticut county numbers for the Charles R. Hale Collection are as follows.

1. Hartford County
2. New haven County
3. New London County
4. Fairfield County
5. Windham County
6. Litchfield County
7. Middlesex County
8. Tolland County

In this example the county happens to be Middlesex County.

The second and third digits (12) is the town number. For each county the first town number reverts back to one. The town numbers for each county are some what, but not necessarily in alphabetical order. In this Example the second and third digits (12) happens to be Old Saybrook.

The number after the hyphen (1) which may be one or two digits, is the cemetery number. For each town the cemetery number always reverts back to the number one. In this example cemetery number one happens to be the number for the Cypress Cemetery.

In summery the cemetery number 712-1 tells us that this is Cypress Cemetery, located in the town of Old Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut.

At hale-collection.com we are indexing all our cemetery records using this numbering system.

Welcome and Introduction

First I want to take a minute to introduce myself. I have been transcribing and copying genealogy records full time now for about 3 years, and have been working on my own genealogy research for over 10 years. I moved to the Mohawk Valley region of New York State about a year and a half age so I could get closer to the real colonial American history, and have easier access to it's recorded history. Colonial American history is where my heart is.

New Horizons Genealogy was founded on the idea that we want to help you take your genealogy research to a new horizon, that was the idea on which our name came from. We want to bring to you the older and more overlooked records not often found on the larger subscription based genealogy websites. Some of our record collections include, Colonial and State Census Records, Census Record Mortality Schedules, 1847-1849 New York State Vital Records, Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions, New York State Cemetery Records, New York State Revolutionary War Soldier Burials , and 1840 Census of Pensioners that are currently inter-filed in with the Colonial and State Census Records. Our records span across three websites, New Horizons Genealogy, Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions and Mortality Schedules.

While we can't transcribe every record to make our collections complete, we fill in the gaps by linking to records transcribed by other transcribers. This way we can also attempt to get an inventory of what has been transcribed and not be duplicating the hard work of others. If you are a transcriber and have work you would like us to like to please add a link to our website in your website either on the home page or in a links page and email us and we will add a link to your transcribed records. If you were a person whom transcribed records for the genweb project and took them down for one reason or another and would like to post them on our website just send us the file and we would be happy to post them on our website. Please be advised we adhere to and all records we post are subject to the Digital Millennium Copywrite Act (DMCA).

Our websites are 100% free and here for your enjoyment. Please contact me with any comments and/or suggestions you may have concerning our websites.
--Lynn Tooley