USA certificates

Morning all I am dealing with an US family who seem to delight in marrying more than once and have blended families, now working out which child belongs to which marriage is giving me a headache, so I wondered how easy it is to order birth certificates from the New York State, how to go about it and what the cost might be ? I want to know who belongs to who once and for all. I am talking about 1850 in Olive, Ulster County.
Many thanks
Carol

 

I have no detailed knowledge of this, but the wiki on FamilySearch might be helpful? I put Olive into the search box and selected the right one. On the page that takes you to, if you scroll down far enough there's a link to New York Genealogy - click New York where it says Links to New York-related articles. Hope this is of help.

 

Have you tried what I'd call the obvious thing to do? I've just put "New York State Archives" into Google to see what comes up.
This is the state archives' advice on research into BMDs. Here are a couple of quotes:

As that does not help a lot, next thing to try was "Ulster State Archives", then "town of Olive Archives". For the county, there is this:

Note that the list of town clerks linked to there does not exist. Searching for town of Olive direct comes up with:

Note the separate rules for old records seen as "genealogy" and recent ones; you have to find the right rules. In this case all they offer as "genealogy" is making copies under the state-wide Health Department vital records section, and that only starts in 1881.

So far I can't see any indication that anyone holds what you want. And if they do, they may expect you to visit in person (and pay cash!) for a copy. But it must be worth phoning up to ask, especially at the local level.

 

Typical but thank you all for looking, it never occured to me to search in the manner you have, American genealogy is fairly new to me and very confusing. I was trying to confirm a link between me and a dna match where to put it mildly the water is muddy. As for baptisms I have no idea, I suppose it depends on the religion involved and I am pretty sure Methodists are one.
Oh well upwards and onwards.

 

Thank you for this I have not tried the Wiki site before and there is lot to look at.

 

I am further back to the people I want to know about so it might not be worth proceeding further but thank you for the information.

 

Thank you Stuart this one looks really helpful