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Subject: [NYSUFFOL] ADDRESS NEEDED FOR MARRIAGE RECORD
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 12:10:50 EST

On 10/31/2000 (11:32:15 AM EST), relayed a posting by
Bill Handrich () to
http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Suffolk/145, as:

"Could someone please pass along the address where I could write for a
marriage
record from WADING RIVER in Suffolk County? I'm looking for the record
of the marriage of Viola Louise CROAKE and Paul HANDRICH which took place
there on 28 April 1917."


Wading River is a hamlet (unincorporated area) in the Town of Riverhead,
Suffolk County. I'll explain why this is important a bit later in this eMail.

The collection of Vital Records in New York State begin in 1881, and are
required to be kept by the city or town, as the case may be, in which the
event (birth, death, marriage) occurred and by the state (Albany).

Some of the larger villages do maintain these records, but not all villages
do as they may voluntarily waive their right to do so and make it a
responsibility of the town(s) in which the village is (are) in. If the place
where the event occurred is in a village, the Town Clerk will tell you if the
village or the town maintains the record.

Currently, there are 10 towns in Suffolk County: Huntington, Babylon,
Smithtown, Islip, Brookhaven, Riverhead, Southold, Southampton, Shelter
Island and East Hampton

There are 2 cities (Glen Cove and Long Beach) and 3 towns (Hempstead, North
Hempstead and Oyster Bay) in Nassau County.

In this regard, please remember that it is very important to know in which
city or town (or village) the event took place and the city or town (or
village) could be different from the city or town (or village) where the
individual may have resided.

As I wrote, Wading River is a hamlet in the Town of Riverhead, Suffolk
County. There are no villages (incorporated areas) and 7 hamlets
(unincorporated areas) all or partly within the Town of Riverhead.
(Riverhead is the only town in either Suffolk or Nassau Counties without any
village within its borders.)

Here's the contact information for the Town Clerk of the Town of Riverhead:

Office of the Town Clerk
Town of Riverhead
Town Hall
210 Howell Avenue
Riverhead, NY

Tel: 631/727-3200

eMail: ????? (If you do obtain the eMail, please forward same to me.)

http://www.riverheadli.com/


But, as the Hamlet of Wading River is right on the Riverhead/Brookhaven Town
line, there could be a small area in the Town of Brookhaven with "Wading
River" mailing addresses. So, to cover all bases, here's the contact
information for the Town Clerk of the Town of Brookhaven:

Town Clerk
Town of Brookhaven
Brookhaven Town Hall
205 South Ocean Avenue
Patchogue, NY

Tel: 631/654-7822

eMail: ????? (If you do obtain the eMail, please forward same to me.)

http://www.brookhaven.org/


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

Regards,

Walter Greenspan

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