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Subject: [NYNASSAU] Episcopal Church
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 17:52:30 EDT

Steve & Nassau-Rootsers, etc.,


On 04/24/2000 (5:31:35 PM EDT), Steve () asks,


"Does any one know if the Episcopal church, Nassau (Queens) county, kept
any Birth,Death or marriage records from 1850 to about 1910?
Do they have a web site?"


You may want to send your inquiry to:

Ms. Nancy Signiore
Administrative Assistant to the
Deputy for Finance & Administration
EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF LONG ISLAND
36 Cathedral Drive
Garden City, NY 11530

e-Mail: ???
web page: http://???????

tel: 516/248-4800, X11
fax: 516/248-1616

If you do contact Ms. Signiore or her replacement and you obtain her e-Mail
and/or the web page for the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, I would
appreciate it if you would forward same to me so that I can update my
records. Thank you.

For those searching their Anglican/Episcopal roots, please be aware that
information about their ancestors who may have been:

born in,
baptized in,
in an orphanage run by,
educated in,
married in,
or buried within

a facility under the auspices of the Anglican or Episcopal Church is not so
easy to obtain. Unfortunately, your search is a bit more complicated and not
as direct as is the search of those with Roman Catholic roots.

Anglican or, since the Revolution (the first Civil War, as some have referred
to the war with Britain), the Episcopal Church records are kept by the
individual church. Only those churches that have been dissolved and not
absorbed into another church may have had their records forwarded to the
Diocese. Also unlike Catholic record keeping organization, when the
Episcopalian Diocese of Long Island was separated from the Episcopalian
Diocese of New York, the records (what ever they were) went with the new
diocese, they did not stay with the previous diocese.

With that said ...

The Episcopal Diocese of New York gave birth to the Episcopal Diocese of Long
Island (at least Episcopalians are very good geographers as they have defined
Long Island as all 4 counties: Kings, Queens, Nassau & Suffolk) in 1868.

As I just wrote, the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island takes in all 4 counties
(including the Hamlet of Fishers Island in the Town of Southold, which is in
the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hartford, as in Connecticut).

The Episcopal Diocese of New York has a similar geography to the Catholic
Archdiocese of New York as both cover the remaining 3 boroughs of New York
City (Staten Island, Manhattan and the Bronx, also known as Richmond, New
York and Bronx Counties) as well as Westchester, Rockland and additional
upstate counties.

The respective archival sources are:

Ms. Nancy Signiore
Administrative Assistant to the
Deputy for Finance & Administration
EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF LONG ISLAND
36 Cathedral Drive
Garden City, NY 11530

e-Mail: ???
web page: http://???????

tel: 516/248-4800, X11
fax: 516/248-1616


Mr. Wayne Kempton
Archivist
EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF NEW YORK
1047 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10025

e-Mail: ???
web page: http://???????


tel: 212/316-7419
fax: none


I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting.


Sincerely,

Walter Greenspan

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