Next steps:
1. Scan the original into my computer (I only have a scan of the photocopy)
2. Fill out the form to get my GM's birth cert from NYC!

Should I wait for my mat GF's death cert to come (est. delivery date is 26 Dec) bef submitting both birth cert requests or just do hers now?

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When Dad and I preemptively evacuated from the Palisades fire in January, it took us 3 carloads to load all the stuff. By the end of it, when we had brought all of it over to my aunt's house where it was safe, she asked us what we had brought. "Mostly genealogy and photos," Dad said. #AncestryHour

You're doing better than me! I have 3 boxes & drawers full of ancestral photos (both sides) that I need to (likely) label and (definitely) scan in. And that's not to mention the several photo boxes of photos from my early life that - now that you mention it - I should scan in. #AncestryHour

Cool! Glad you got the will. I'm still waiting for my maternal grandparents death certificates - though one of them is now stated to be on it's way. #AncestryHour

I want to confirm information. I have her death date & place from her obit. I got her birth date & place from my mom (her niece) through non-meticulous research (presumably Mom got it by asking her aunt?) & a birth index. And to get an address for the family from her birth cert. Thanks for the info.

Absolutely! So I just checked my family tree & for the ones that I have a death date for - which doesn't include everybody for my 2x great-grandparents (the siblings of my mat GM's GPs) - they died in the 1930s or later. But because I don't have all the dates, it could be earlier than 1930. #GenHour

One full line - my maternal grandmother's - is fully NYC as far as I know of. (My maternal grandmother was the daughter, niece, and granddaughter of Russian Jewish immigrants.) So I'm really looking to them getting NYC death records out. #GenHour

Ooh! Good point! Would posting them a day early work or is that too early? (Just thinking about how my Thursday mornings go. Unless I get up even earlier, it probably won't happen on Thursday mornings.) #GenHour

Good to know, thank you. I will have to do the research first but my assumption is that they lived and died in NYC, so they're probably buried in NYC, which means I'm not so sure that they'll be on a New York State list. But as I said, it's assumption. #GenHour

I know. I really wished it did. That is maybe the one thing I miss from the other place. #GenHour

Would it be good for doing post-1947 research? I've likely said this before to you but the only Scottish (so to speak) person in my tree is my paternal GF's brother-in-law. And he came to Scotland in Nov 1947 from a refugee camp (possibly a DP camp?) in Switzerland.... #GenHour

So is this a case of cold-calling family asking strangers to help me or waiting 30-some odd years and (hopefully) letting the statute of limitations or whatever run out so that I can (hopefully) get it at the 50-year mark of her death or something?

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In terms of asking family, Mom - who is gone now - barely ever talked to any of her first cousins on her mother's side .... 1) Dad and I think the last time she did talk to one of them was in the '90s and 2) Dad and I have never even met any of the cousins (though we met my great-aunt & uncle).

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So, in summary: NYC - as her great-niece - will let me get her birth certificate ... provided I give them an original copy of her NJ death certificate. New Jersey - in terms of getting her death certificate - says that I'm not considered next-of-kin so I can't get the death certificate.

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According to VitalCheck - where I tried to order the New Jersey death certificate - both certified & uncertified (ie informational) copies are limited to next-of-kin (ie parents, spouses, siblings, and children and grandchildren of the deceased if they're "of legal age").

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She did die in New Jersey. However, if the deceased person who you're seeking a birth certificate for was born in NYC but died outside of New York State, NYC requires an original copy of the out-of-state death certificate before you can get the birth certificate.

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You're doing better than me! I have some transcriptions I should do based on German-to-English translations from my cousin-in-law. Have I done them yet? No. #AncestryHour

As the daughter of a proud “Groundhog baby” (so to speak), I like this. 😊

March 2002.