State of New York records turnaround?

[warriorrabbit]

Anyone have any idea about the timeframe? I sent a request and a check to Albany about 3 weeks ago. The check still hasn’t been cashed. I’m wondering how long to give them (I’m guessing 6 weeks) before assuming it got lost, and the check should be canceled.

I sent a request to St. Louis for my dad’s military records about four months ago (no check involved), and nothing ever happened. I guess I’ll have to try again. I assume the USPS lost my letter, or the DOGE idiots cut the archives off at the knees and no one’s there.

[warriorrabbit]

No one here had a response, but FYI for anyone else, a recent Reddit said they are *years* behind.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Genealogy/comm ... l_records/

[MaddalenaNYC]

What State of NY records are you looking for?

[MaddalenaNYC]

As to Military records, I wrote directly to the Department of the Navy and received the records for two of my paternal uncles. One uncle died prior to World War II, the other served in the Pacific during the war.

The records arrived to me rather quickly.

You might try writing directly to the military branch in which your father served. Maybe you’ve already done that and St. Louis happens to be the repository for your father’s service records.


If your father had a military pension, as I understand it, pension records usually contain more information than service records.

This is true with records going way back to the US Civil War. I’m not certain how more modern pension records are handled.

[MaddalenaNYC]

NY State records. Depending upon what records you are seeking, it is sometimes faster to deal with the actual county that issued those records rather than going through the state itself.

Let me know what you are looking for.

I live in NY. I’ve had great success going directly to Westchester County, where some of my family resided, for some records.

[warriorrabbit]

It was actually Patchogue (Suffolk County), and I contacted the town clerk and actually received the death certificate from Patchogue in Saturday's mail. Unfortunately, the piece of information I sought, his mother's name, was left blank.

[MaddalenaNYC]

That is a bother. What else do you know about him? What about his marriage certificate? A marriage certificate will always show the parents’ names.

Do you know where and when he was born, or approximately so?

Baptism?

Tell me more.

[warriorrabbit]

Unfortunately I can’t find the marriage certificate, which is likely 1866. Seems to be a year that’s missing. The first son Salvatore was born in 1868, although that’s a mostly self-reported date. (Can’t find Salvatore’s birth record, either, but that’s not as big a deal.)

I’m trying to confirm that the Vincenzo Ferlazzo who died in 1934 in Suffolk, father Salvatore mother not listed, is this one
https://antenati.cultura.gov.it/ark:/12 ... 62/5vGpQJO

I’m reasonably sure, but not certain.

Suffolk death certificate Vincenzo is born March 7 1844.
Gioiosa Marea birth act Vincenzo is born March 5 1845.
These are close enough to be mixed up by people not primed to memorize their birth date. Still, I’m hoping to confirm somehow.