This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Abrams, Hendrickson, Watts, Rogan, Moquin, Porretto, Barnes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRB.2ACE/882.1 Message Board Post: I went to Hempstead for records a few years ago. As far as I know, you cannot do any researching yourself. I had to pay $20 for each record whether they found anything or not (they did not find one out of my four)! I think that is very harsh. Even the guards could not believe it. They were going to mail the records, but I said I was leaving NY, so they had them ready that day to come back. So you will not get them right away either. A very expensive endeavor.