Have you tried the United Methodist church near you to find out if they have a national office or diocese of some kind. Like other churches maybe they have a national directory> Pat CA ----- Original Message ----- From: <Soyamaven@aol.com> To: <NY-LONGISLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 7:44 AM Subject: [NY-LONGISLAND] Old Woodbury Methodist Church > > On 1/27/04 (5:50:36 PM MST), as part of a posting to both LI lists > (li-rooters@listserv.genexchange.com and NY-LONGISLAND-L@rootsweb.com), Carl Lewis > Friedrich (TheFFs@aol.com) asked, > > "Does anyone know if there are church records from the Old Woodbury Methodist > Church that was located on the corner of Jericho Tpk (Rte25) and Woodbury > Road? I know that the burial records are in the Huntington Historical Society > and > I have copies of them..I am looking for the ancestry of Frank Lewis his wife > Lillian Baldwin and their children William A, Mildred Isabell and Charles > Leslie" > > > For questions such as yours, you may want to contact the Syosset Public > Library: > > Syosset Public Library > 225 South Oyster Bay Road > Syosset, NY 11791-5897 > > Tel: 516/921-7161 > Fax: 516/921-8771 > > eMail: > http://www.nassaulibrary.org/syosset/emailref.html > > http://www.nassaulibrary.org/syosset/ > > > The pertinent geography: > > Woodbury is a hamlet (an unincorporated area) in the center-west part of the > Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, along the Oyster Bay/Huntington Town line > and the Nassau/Suffolk County line. There are 18 hamlets and 18 villages all > or partly within the Town of Oyster Bay. There are 2 cities and 3 towns in > Nassau County. (I'm including after my name a NYS Geographic Glossary with the > NYS definitions of county, city, town, village, hamlet and postal zone.) > > Beginning on its northern border and proceeding clockwise, the Hamlet of > Woodbury in the Town of Oyster Bay is bordered on the north by the Village of > Laurel Hollow; on the east by the Hamlets of West Hills and Melville in the Town > of Huntington, Suffolk County (the Oyster Bay/Huntington Town line and the > Nassau/Suffolk County line); on the south by the Hamlet of Plainview; and, on the > west by the Hamlet of Syosset. > > And, as occurs in all but one of Nassau County's 136 communities (2 cities, > 64 villages and 70 hamlets), the Hamlet of Woodbury has a different border than > does the "Woodbury, NY 11797" postal zone (i.e., a place can have a Woodbury > mailing address and not be in Woodbury and a place can be in Woodbury and have > other than a Woodbury mailing address). > > ..............................................acres > .....Hamlet of Woodbury............3,186 > .....Woodbury, NY 11797...........3,175 > > There are places in part of the Hamlet of Syosset that have a Woodbury > mailing address and, at the same time, there are places in Woodbury that have a > "Plainview, NY" mailing address. > > For those who have their copy of the 2002 or earlier editions of the LI > Population Survey or have already downloaded the report from the Long Island Power > Authority web site (eMail me directly if you need instructions on how to > access and download the report), you'll find the Hamlet of Woodbury in the Town of > Oyster Bay, Nassau County on pages 5 & 11 (map) and 12 (population estimate). > > I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. > > Regards, > > Walter Greenspan > > > Cities, Towns, Villages, Hamlets and Postal Zones in New York State > > New York State is divided into counties. > > County > A county is a municipal corporation, a subdivision of the state, created to > perform state functions; a "regional" government All counties are divided into > cities, towns and Indian reservations. > > City > A city is a unique governmental entity with its own special charter. Cities > are not sub-divided, except into neighborhoods which are informal geographic > areas. > > Town > A town is a municipal corporation and encompasses all territory within the > state except that within cities or Indian reservations. Towns can be > sub-divided into villages and hamlets. > > Village > A village is a general purpose municipal corporation formed voluntarily by > the residents of an area in one or more towns to provide themselves with > municipal services. The pattern of village organization is similar to those of a > city. A village is divided into neighborhoods, which are informal geographic > areas. > > Hamlet > A hamlet is an unincorporated area in one or more towns that is governed > at-large by the town(s) it is in. A hamlet is divided into neighborhoods, which > are informal geographic areas. > > Postal Zone "City" and "Town" > A postal zone "City" and "Town" is an administrative district established by > the U.S. Postal Service to deliver the mail. Postal zone "City" and "Town" > may not (but are encouraged to) conform to municipal or community borders. > Thus, postal zone location does not always determine city, village or hamlet > location. > > > Please be aware: In many areas of New York State, the problem of > non-conforming postal zones leads to a situation where the majority of place shave a > different community name in their mailing address than the community where that > place is actually located. > > > ==== NY-LONGISLAND Mailing List ==== > Karima, List Administrator mailto:NY-LONGISLAND-admin@rootsweb.com > List Guidelines: http://userweb.springnet1.com/quest/LongIslandWelcome.html