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New York State Birth Index - 1933

These are scanned images of the index to births that occurred in the state of New York, originally compiled by the New York State Department of Health (NYS DOH). This information was obtained through a successful New York State Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request filed by the non-profit organization Reclaim The Records against the NYS DOH in September 2017, which was finally completed in August 2018. This publication is the first time that this information has been made freely available to the general public in digital form on the Internet. Previously, this birth index information was only available as individual microfiche sheets, which were often faded and scratched and quite hard to read, and they were only available at a small number of New York public libraries, as well as the New York City branch of the National Archives (NARA). Those publicly available copies also generally did not go past 1938. Reclaim The Records obtained and published the data from 1881 up through 1942. Later years of the birth index may become publicly available in future years. Note that this index does not contain lists of births from New York City . New York City is considered to be an entirely

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