From January 31 to February 8, 2026, Geneanet is organizing a special week dedicated to the transcription of the New York City Geographical Birth Index.
The New York City Geographical Birth Index is a finding aid created by city archivists of every address in New York City from 1880-1912 with the name and certificate number of whoever was born there. If you have a family’s address, you may find a child’s birth certificate through this index.
The 96-reel microfilm collection was digitized by FamilySearch and published there and at the Internet Archive in 2018, but no transcribed index of the collection existed until Geneanet began its project four years ago.
There are an estimated 2.8 million births in this card index and today, over 230,000 of the estimated half a million cards have been transcribed by volunteers. You can check which reels have been indexed here.
To start helping with the indexing project, go to: https://en.geneanet.org/indexation/
