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NYC Historical Vital Records: Index to Digitized Death Certificates

Metadata Updated: July 19, 2025

The dataset is an index to digitized historical death certificates from 1862-1948 from all 5 NYC boroughs. Details about certificates in DORIS's collection and their digitization status can be found on our website (https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/digital-vital-records).

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. See Terms License: No license information was provided.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date September 29, 2023
Metadata Updated Date July 19, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from NYC JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date September 29, 2023
Metadata Updated Date July 19, 2025
Publisher data.cityofnewyork.us
Maintainer
Identifier https://data.cityofnewyork.us/api/views/797j-9xvg
Data First Published 2023-07-19
Data Last Modified 2025-07-15
Category City Government
Public Access Level public
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://data.cityofnewyork.us/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 72742c7a-fe63-44d6-9165-2c13a5a7f66a
Harvest Source Id 1696593e-c691-4f61-a696-5dcb9e4c9b4c
Harvest Source Title NYC JSON
Homepage URL https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/797j-9xvg
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 183a94db47526213bbdc433195ba8889bc2bb65c2aeb477d4b977e856ef8f9f6
Source Schema Version 1.1

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