This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WUB.2ACI/1348.1 Message Board Post: On 4/24/05 (7:30:38 AM MDT), in a posting to the Queens County Ancestry Board that was 'gatewayed' to NYQUEENS-L@rootsweb.com, Michael Rauck (rauck@gmx.de) asked, "My ggrandfather was married to Maria Louise (Mary) Hoose, born 12 Jan 1866 Newtown, Long Island. Her parents were Friedrich Hoose and Anna Louise Prinoth. I have a post card by her brother Fritz. On 8 May 1883 in Munich, she married Dr. med. Julius Lindpaintner (1850-1892). Can anyone give details on her family? I am also wondering if she came to Germany by herself, or with her parents." For questions such as yours, you may want to contact the Queens Borough Public Library (the library can suggest which local newspaper might have this information and other possible sources of information): Queens Borough Public Library 89-11 Merrick Boulevard New York (Jamaica P.O.), NY 11432 Tel: 718/990-0700 Fax: 718/???-???? Contact information: http://www.queenslibrary.org/about/gen_info.asp Home page: http://www.queenslibrary.org/ Currently, Long Island City is a neighborhood in the New York City Borough of Queens (coterminious with the New York State County of Queens), circa the 1880s, Long Island City was a city in Queens County, then not part of New York City. I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. Wishing all a ziessen Pesach (sweet Passover)*, Walter Greenspan * The 8-day Biblical Festival of Passover begins on the 15th day of the month of Nissan (that's the Babylonian 'Nissan', not the Japanese 'Nissan'), which this year occurs at sunset on Saturday, April 23 on the civil calendar.