NYC Historical Vital Records: Index to Digitized Death Certificates
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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Freshness
The publisher's promise
How the agency that publishes this data says it keeps the data current.
New
- Says it updates
- As needed
- Actually updates about every
- —
- Publisher last updated the data
- Jul 9, 2026
Our mirror
Whether our copy of this data is current with the source.
In sync
- We last synced
- Jul 9, 2026, 12:41 PM
- Rows in our copy
- 3,725,986
- Rows at the source
- 3,725,986
- Our copy trails the source by
- under a minute
Columns
Each source column, with the name and type we use to store it.
0 of 9 columns carry a concept; 9 carry a description from the publisher. Read the concept column before you join. A column with no concept carries no claim from us, and a name that looks like a key is not one.
| Source field | Display name | What the publisher says it is | Concept | Source type | Stored as | Stored type | Row identifier | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
county | County | Borough in which the certificate was issued. | Not bound | Text | county | text | — | |
age | Age of Death | Length of time person has lived | Not bound | Text | age | text | — | |
soundex | Soundex | A phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound | Not bound | Text | soundex | text | — | |
day | Certificate Day | Day of Birth on the certificate | Not bound | Text | day | text | — | |
first_name | First Name | First name and middle name/initial on the certificate | Not bound | Text | first_name | text | — | |
last_name | Last Name | Last name on the birth certificate | Not bound | Text | last_name | text | — | |
number | Certificate Number | Certificate number on the document | Not bound | Text | number | text | — | |
month | Certificate Month | Month of Birth on the certificate | Not bound | Text | month | text | — | |
year | Certificate Year | Year of Birth on the certificate | Not bound | Number | year | numeric |
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Source and attribution
Where this data comes from, which version we hold, and what we changed.
- Source
- https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/797j-9xvg
- Version
- Content hash:
d4708566eac4b32d88ee6bdb92daa6d7f8ecfd237ea7ca70ac29d17d2371b81d - What we changed
- We did not change the data. We stored it as published.
- Publisher
- codenownyc
- We retrieved it
- Jul 9, 2026, 12:41 PM
Update history
| Started | Kind | Result | Rows written | Produced by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 2026, 3:20 AM | full_replace | success | 3,725,986 | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.47 |