Today the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society (NYG&B) reported Ancestry.com's addition of three new collections of New York City vital record indexes, which are separate from the already-existing Ancestry indexes.

NYG&B advises one can query all NYC vital record indexes at once from the New York City Department of Records search page on Ancestry.com.

If you are researching ancestors in New York City, you'll want to read the full explanation of the differences in the various record sets, found in this blog posting.