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

[elleng]

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

[Buckeye_Democrat]

1. NY should have her death certificate.

(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]

2. I have her parent's names, I remember them (thank goodness,) Grandma and Grandpa!

Will look into NYS records.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

3. Here's a link to NY's vital records.

https://www.health.ny.gov/vital_records/

And here's a website that provides a summary of other NY genealogy records:
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/New_York_Online_Genealogy_Records

[fierywoman]

4. And when you get a crumb of a clue, the Mormons have ASTOUNDING geneological data in their

libraries, which they allow non-Mormons to use.

[csziggy]

7. Yes, FamilySearch.org is free

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. I have a friend who knew nothing of his family. Although his father was married to his

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!

[csziggy]

9. Now, that is interesting! nt

[fierywoman]

10. (And it's all thanks to the Catholic church and the Mormons!)

[bluestateboomer]

5. Newspapers.com

If you know a name and a date range you can find obituaries and other articles.

[elleng]

6. Thanks.

Irish_Dem helped, and found it ALL!