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From: Phyllis Kramer
Liz Hanellin asked:My great grandmother, Rebecca POPKIN, died sometime between
August 1962 and September 1963, but I don't have a specific date and I don't
know where she is buried. Does anyone have advice for me on how to find her death
information?

I would suggest the following: .......



Phyllis offers a lot of good suggestions for a general approach to looking for a
date of death but in this instance there's a simpler, sure fire solution. The
New York City Death Index to 1982 is on the shelves at the New York Public Library
(and the questioner works just a few blocks >from the library).

This index is arranged by year and then the name of the deceased. It will show the
date of death, the person's age, the borough in which the person died, and the
certificate number.

If the person in question is not in that file they did not die in New York City
and then the approaches Phyllis details are the next best solution.

The library's copy of the death index starts on microfilm and then switches to
books for the 1960s to 1982. The 1967 book however is permanently missing >from
the collection.

To use it at the Library is free and some else recently posted a paid link to a
commercial company that has the images loaded as well of the New York City vital
record indexes.

Allan Jordan