You can order a copy directly from the NYS DOH in Albany. In New York State, a birth certificate of a deceased person which is more than 75 years old is considered to be open and available to the public. If you find a name of a relative or other person of interest in this index, you can then place an order for a copy of the original birth certificate, which will have much more information on it, such as the person's place of birth and the names of the person's parents. This record set is only the index to New York State birth records.
Note too that births that took place in the cities of Albany, Buffalo, and Yonkers are not included until about 1914 or 1915 those three cities did not initially participate in the statewide registration of births and kept their own records. However, a small number of NYC birth listings are found scattered throughout this index, either because the births happened in towns that were previously independent before the consolidation of the city in 1898 (for example, a pre-1898 birth in a place like Canarsie or Flushing might be listed here) or because there was a late birth registration. New York City is considered to be an entirely separate vital records jurisdiction from the rest of New York state, and consequently the city has its own birth, marriage, and death indices.
Note that this index does not contain lists of births from New York City. Later years of the birth index may become publicly available in future years. Reclaim The Records obtained and published the data from 1881 up through 1942. Those publicly available copies also generally did not go past 1938. 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). This publication is the first time that this information has been made freely available to the general public in digital form on the Internet. 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. 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).
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