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/1245.1 Message Board Post: On 11/6/04 (4:05:34 PM MST), in a posting to the Queens County Ancestry Board that was 'gatewayed' to NYQUEENS-L@rootsweb.com, Mark Foster (ny2obx@aol.com) asked, "I have been unable to find birth cert of my gm Mary Agnes HEELY, b. 1-20-1893. I have been looking in Bklyn since all other HEELY records / addresses pertain to Bklyn. However I just found her baptism cert from St Elizabeths RC parish in Woodhaven, Long Island, from 1-21-1893. Where would I look for her birth cert if I can't find it in Bklyn? I have researched this twice at NYC Municipal Archives with no luck." Circa 1893, Woodhaven was a Hamlet in the Town of Jamaica in Queens County. Thus, a birth certificate, if issued, would be with the Town Clerk for the Town of Jamaica. Please be aware that it would be some 5 years before this part of Queens County became part of New York City. For birth records before 1910, you might try: http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/vitalrecords/birth.shtml For additional help, you may want to contact the Queens Borough Public Library: 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/ I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. Sincerely, Walter Greenspan