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==New York== | |||
===New York State (Outside of New York City)=== | |||
Birth Certificates can be ordered through the NYS Department of Health. They need to be "long form" birth certificates in order to be accepted by the Italian consulate. Most original copies are not long form, so you may need to order a long form version of your own birth certificate, in addition to ancestor birth certificates (through a court order). | |||
Difference between long form and short form birth certificates: https://www.usbirthcertificates.com/articles/birth-certificates-long-form-vs-short-form | |||
Order certificates here: https://www.health.ny.gov/vital_records/birth.htm. | |||
==Pennsylvania== | ==Pennsylvania== | ||
Revision as of 17:31, 25 June 2022
New York
New York State (Outside of New York City)
Birth Certificates can be ordered through the NYS Department of Health. They need to be "long form" birth certificates in order to be accepted by the Italian consulate. Most original copies are not long form, so you may need to order a long form version of your own birth certificate, in addition to ancestor birth certificates (through a court order).
Difference between long form and short form birth certificates: https://www.usbirthcertificates.com/articles/birth-certificates-long-form-vs-short-form
Order certificates here: https://www.health.ny.gov/vital_records/birth.htm.
Pennsylvania
Lawrence County
A good place to start to do a search if your family was in Lawrence county, including New Castle, PA. You can send requests to the Prothonotary for $12 a request:
https://lawrencecountypa.gov/gov/prothonotary-lawrence_county/genealogical-searches/
FamilySearch.org
More and more images from the consulate's books are showing up online. If you know the consulate, ancestor's name(s) and the approximate year, you can try to find birth, marriage and death records pretty easy.
After you create/log in to your familysearch.org account, you can check out this example from Sant'Aresenio, Salerno:
Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh
You can do searches in the Catholic Church in the Pittsburgh area
