Early Kings County, Queens County & Richmond County, New York Birth Database
These are records from towns and villages before they were incorporated into New York City in 1898.
These "certificates" are Register Entries in a journal, and the numbers are probably Line Numbers.
The NYC website indicates that these journals are on microfilm and you have to contact them to arrange for access onsite.
There is a request form here: https://a860-collectionguides.nyc.gov/contact
This database contains records for the following towns and years:
Kings County:
| Flatbush | 1847 - 1851, 1881 - 1895 |
Queens County:
| College Point |
1880 - 1898 |
| Far Rockaway, Village of | 1889 - 1897 |
| Flushing, Town of | 1881 - 1897 |
| Flushing, Village of | 1889 - 1897 |
| Jamaica, Town of |
1881 - 1899 |
| Jamaica, Village of |
1879 - 1898 |
| Long Island City |
1871 - 1898 |
| Newtown | 1881 - 1898 |
| Richmond Hill | 1896 - 1897 |
| Rockaway Beach |
1897 - 1898 |
| Whitestone, Village of |
1889 - 1897 |
Richmond County:
| Castleton | 1892 - 1897 | |
| Edgewater | 1892 - 1897 | |
| Middletown | 1879 - 1897 | |
| New Brighton | 1889 - 1892 | |
| Northfield | 1892 - 1897 | |
| Port Richmond | 1892 - 1897 | |
| Southfield | 1892 - 1897 | |
| Special Book | 1884 - 1897 | |
| Tottenville | 1894 - 1897 | |
| Westfield | 1892 - 1897 |
Please visit the New York City Municipal Archives web site for information on how to request Birth Certificates.
Records Search: Town Births
Please note that the Surname (e.g. Last Name) is a required entry field. But since exact spellings are not always known, to aid your search we offer three different ways to specify Surnames...
- Exact Match ("is exactly") - This is the default surname search method.
- Soundex ("sounds like") - This option enables you to specify a surname spelling it out as best you can, and it will return results that "sound" similar to what you spelled out.
- Wild Card - With this option you can replace part of the surname with a * to match any number of letters, or _ to match a single letter. So for example, Sch* will return all names starting with Sch. Similarly, Schl_tz might return results such as Schlitz or Schlotz.
NOTE: The wild card option applies ONLY to the surname. You can just enter the first few letters of a First Name; the search automatically adds a wild card to the end of the First Name.
For whichever of the above surname search options you would like to use, simply select the appropriate radio button option below the input field on the form. Although the additional form fields are optional, providing as much information as you can helps narrow your search when there are a large number of search results.
We wish to thank all the following volunteers their help and participation in the Birth Index project:
Barbara Abrams * Carol Aivazian * Marie Arena * Meg Assip * Paul Auerbach * Joyce Bailey * David Beer * Kathleen Benson * Richard Bernhard * Ed Birnbaum * Robert Boeckle * Bernadette Bono * Barbara Bookhardt * Warren Bosch * Elaine Bronner * Allison Bruce * Renee Capitanio * Lawrence Carroll * Patricia Carter * Cathy Champion * Hope Chontofalsky * Sheila-Anne Choukrane * Marilyn Clark * Kathy Clune * Kim Coleman Elizabeth Connor * Blanche Craton * Paula Curran * Michelle DeAmelio * Kim DeFalco * Eleanore Dilello * Dianne Delitto * John Driscoll * Carol Earnhart * Donald Eckerle * Patricia Eckhart * Robin Ehlich * Linda Epstein * Joan Falk * Linda Fine * John Fitzpatrick * Kathy Fletcher * Eve Fowler * Lucille Frost * Sherry Gevarter * Kerri Glover * Marion Godzik * Marilyn Grosbeck * Sandra Gutierrez * Bill Hackmack * Sandi Hamilton * Eileen Hansen * Brenda Hayward * Gayle Herron * Linda Heslin * Glenn Howard * Marie Inglee * Ken Kennedy * Jean King * Fred Lamond * Stephen Lignowski * Richard Lituchy * A J Logan * Denise Lombardo * Nancy Lutz Jeanne Macri * John Martino * Virginia (Ginny) Michaels * Rosemary Mirabella * Fran Molnar * Gayle Mooney * Mary Morabito * Marlene Mozgala * Cindy O'Neill * Debby Painter * Terry Parcel * Marie Pastore * Judy Petersen * Chloe Pierle * Mary Levant Plant * Michael Reich * Carol Resch * Susan Richardson * Audry Rini * Patricia Rogers Elaine Roth * Dolores Royere * Eli Savada * Barbara Schaffer * Kim Schmidt * Fran Schreiber * Erin Schuck * Darlene Scotti-Tribou * Ted Semegran * Christine Sigismondi Janette Silverman * Judith Smith * Nancy Spencer * Phyllis Spillane * Larry Steinhauer * Dorothy Stewart * Judy Tarail * Olga Thuman * Jack Tims * Diana Tosi * Karen Tutone * Nanci Vaeth * Vicki Vaughn * Lori DiBella Wallach * Kerry Walus * Theresa Waters * Fred Weber * Karen Weinberg * Laura Weishaupt * Ann White * Barbara Wilkenshoff * Chris Wilkenshoff * Syd Willoughby * Pamela Works * Carol V Yocom * Cathy Zeltmann * Paula Zieselman
