Would someone do a look up for a John Prost Post Pobst. A death record for he or his wife Catherine with a note to notify the Buffalo NY papers as well. Date of death between 1905 and 1910.
I found them in 1900 in Brighton town sheet no 9 B with daughter Mildred.
Or a marriage record 1893-1894.
Birth record for Mildred born in 1895?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Ellen

Births were not usually is the papers back then. You might find a listing in the NYS vital records index for the birth which would allow you to order a certificate.

You can search the online city marriages at:
http://www.cityofrochester.gov/app.aspx?id=8589936475.
the towns, like Brighton, are not online.

The 1818-1897 newspaper indexes are online at:
http://www3.libraryweb.org/lh.aspx?id=963&ekmensel=c57df...

City directories which give a date of death are online at:
http://www3.libraryweb.org/lh.aspx?id=1105, but the county one(i.e. Brighton) do not even start until 1930.

Mount Hope cemetery (a large one near Brighton) is online at:
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=3310, but see also:

http://mcnygenealogy.com/cem/index.htm

None of the names appear in the Mt Hope cemetery records online [http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=3310] for the years 1897-1919, but that just means they probably weren't buried in that cemetery.
Since they lived in Brighton they aren't in the city directories, who do give death dates up until about 1960.

You can also try http://www.fultonhistory.com/, which has over 10 million pages of digitized and indexed upstate NY papers, which include Rochester and Buffalo.

They could very well be in the statewide index to BMD's which is here 1881-1959. It is an index to the names on certificates issued statewide outside of NYC.

Thank you, I had no idea Rochester had so much information available on line.
Would anyone be able to do a look up in the 1905 census please? I am trying to close in on death date of John and Catherine Probst in Brighton in 1900 census.
Daughter Mildred would be 10 in 1905 born in NY in 1895.
Thank you very much...

There is no index to the 1905 (yet). Both Ancestry and the LDS church are in the process of doing so. You can look at it online for free at the LDS pilot web site (don't know if this link will work, but if it doesn't go to www.familysearch.org and choose "search records--record search pilot---browse record collections---Canada USA Mexico" and the NY state census records are choosable in about the middle of the page
[http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#r=0;p=...]

Thank you again. Is there still hope that LDS will have all records online and free soon?

So they say. We went to a talk a few weeks ago, where a rep from Salt Lake City mentioned that they have several fast scanners, etc. and many computers with volunteer indexers working on this.

Soon may be a relative term. We would guess that it would be several more years before all the Federal and state censuses are digitized and indexed.