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From: "RL MAYER" <>
Subject: Re: [NYC] 1865 death certificate
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 23:16:21 -0700


Is there a register like the one you are discussing issued for each year
prior to 1866? ..and if so, will they send a complete year, or month or ??
Jinna
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From: Charles Sullivan <>
To: <>
Date: Monday, May 01, 2000 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: [NYC] 1865 death certificate


>Prior to 1866, Manhattan deaths were recorded in a register, which is what
>you have. There is no corresponding death certificate.
>
>One wonders how the deaths were actually reported to the city clerk in
>those days. If there was a form like the later death certificates,
>they must have been discarded after the information was transcribed
>into the register. Or perhaps the undertaker paid a personal visit
>to report the death and be issued a burial permit.
>
>Regards,
>Charles Sullivan
>
>At 02:35 PM 05/01/2000 -0500, Judy Schiavoni wrote:
>>Hello,
>> I sent to the Municipal Archives for a death certificate for an 1865
>>death. I didn't receive a death certificate, however. I received what
>>looks like an index of deaths for certain days in Sept. in 1865. There
are
>>two pages consisting of the names of about 60 people who died, their dates
>>of death, their ages, their residences, their places of birth, diseasea,
>>cemetaries, undertakers, and physicians. Both pages have the raised seal
of
>>the Dept. of Records. My question, I guess, is whether or not they issued
>>death certificates in 1865 and if they did, would this recording of a
death
>>mean that there should be a death certificate. There was no explanation
>>with the record. I'd appreciatie any information anyone has on this
>>subject. Thanks.
>>Judy
>>
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