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Subject: [NYBROOKLYN-L] Re: NYBROOKLYN-D Digest V99 #142
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:20:21 EST
Christine:
In a message dated 3/23/99 5:53:11 AM, you wrote:
<<<<According to my grandparents marriage license in 1919 my grandfather,
Samuel
Howard COCKS, was born 25 Feb. 1889 in Brooklyn, New York. However, when I
wrote to the N.Y.C. Dept. of Records Municipal Archives on Chambers St. they
could not find any record of his birth in Brooklyn in 1889.>>>>>
Try phonetic variations of the spelling of your grandfather's name when
requesting his birth certificate. Have them look under the letter "K" instead
of "C" or "COX" instead of COCKS. My aunt Henrietta MATTERN was incorrectly
listed as MATTRIN on her birth record. They eventually found her record;
however, that was in 1954 when she requested the search.
I just returned from Salt Lake "the mecca" for genealogy records and had a
terrible time with New York City/Brooklyn records. After finding some
CHRISTENSEN births on various indexes, they never matched the certificate
records!!! The Holy Trinity LDS film was worthless as it was illegible and
never should have been on the film in the first place; it was out of focus and
overexposed on most pages. Several of the indexes for passenger lists were
overexposed as well! I took those to the desk and told the librarian of their
useless condition; they were going to re-evaluate their condition and enhance
them if necessary.
Other than those few setbacks, I was able to obtain a lot of useful
information, so I highly recommend a trip to Salt Lake as the scope of their
holdings is outstanding! The staff is incredibly helpful; they will walk you
through the steps of locating records if necessary. I was also able to have
some German and Danish notes loosely translated while there.
Good luck!
Pat Giovanni
Sunnyvale, CA
Researching: CHRISTENSEN, HAGELY, KUEHN, MATTERN, SCHNEIDER, SNYDER-Brooklyn
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