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Recent and Upcoming Records Requests

Records Request #01 (Pilot Project)

Index to New York City Marriage Applications, Affidavits, and Licenses, 1908-1929

Records Request #02

Index to all New York City marriage records, 1930-1995

Records Request #03

Index to New York State Deaths (Outside of New York City), 1880-1956

Records Request #04

New York City Birth Certificates, 1910-1917

Records Request #05

New Jersey Birth, Marriage, and Death Indices, 1901-1903 and 1901-1914

Records Request #06

Missouri birth index, 1910-2015

Records Request #07

Missouri death index, 1965-2015

Records Request #08

List of Registered Voters in New York City for 1924

Records Request #09

Index to New York State Marriages (Outside of New York City), 1880-2016

Records Request #10

Index to New York State Births (Outside of New York City), 1880-1942

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