This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WUB.2ACI/1274.1 Message Board Post: The index to Queens County deed libers A,B,C includes the following Wood names: Edmund, Elizabeth, George, James, Jeremiah, Jerimy, John, Jonathan, Jonas, Judith, Mary, Richard E., Rebecca, Samuel, Timothy. There are multiple entries for some of these names. Lobel's Abstracts of Deeds, Libers A-D, has 5 volumes, but is not indexed. Liber D is extensive and undoubtedly has a number of Wood real estate transactions. Possibly at one time we had Gritman's index to land records of Queens County (1903), but I don't find it now. We do have his typescript of 1921, A Documentary History of Jamaica, L. I., 1655-1800, Vol. 1. Material extends to 1721. We do not have a second volume and there is some question as to whether he ever completed Volume 2. This work uses many colonial sources including the town records. It is not indexed, but there are many land transactions in the town records abstracted by Gritman, and the Wood surname appears frequently in the 17th century when lots, meadows and woods were being laid out and eventually sold or exchanged. Among land to John Wood was a share in the southeast quarter of the "Litle playnes" (Little Plains, at current Queens Village and Bellerose near the Hempstead Town line), measured out and divided in February 1679. Deed libers and documents beginning in 1683 are in the Queens office of the City Register in Jamaica. These have all been microfilmed by the Register. The Jamaica Town Records and possibly some other early land records are in the Municipal Archives at 31 Chambers St., Manhattan. The Jamaica Town Records have been microfilmed, and the early books (to 1751) were published by the Long Island Historical Society in 1914, and the remainder of the town records thru 1897 were transcribed in a WPA project Jamaica's town records to the mid-18th century include numerous Wood entries for Hannah, James, Jeremiah, John, Jonas, Jonathan and Timothy. The later town records to 1897 include many entries for these members of the Wood family: A. M., Abraham, B. Frank, Charles, Charles H., Eldert, Frank B., George, Jacob L., John, Lewis M., Martin V., Dr. Philip M., Walter, William, William D., William L. Happy hunting.

My gg grandparents lived in Queens from 1900-1930 at 5076 Jamaica Ave, which I understand was an apartment on top of a business they ran, it is listed in the NY census as Liquor Store and my ancestor was Charles Killian, and he was the Proprietor. Is there any way to find out the name of the store ? At one time, it was a Tavern/Restaurant, that my grandmother says had tables outside in the back for people to eat, she also thinks the name might have been "Kilians" Also, Thank you to all who tried to help me find my gg grandmothers death date..I do know that she was 70 in 1920 and was living at the above address with Charles but by 1930 Charles was a widower and had moved in with his daughter. Without a date and year of death, I cant apply for a death certificate. I do know that they were German and Lutheran. Since it is looking like I will need to hire a researcher, does anyone know of someone who has extensive knowledge of Queens ? Trisha Fitz Randolph

You need to tell us exactly what research tools you have used. Apparently you have looked at a census....just one or more? Have you checked the property tax records to find out what the name of the business was? Have you asked anyone what church they went to or where they are buried? You will need a date of death for cemetery records....or should I say the date of death for someone anyone buried with them. You can then get a list of internments. There are several cemeteries in the area that may be their burial ground including Lutheran Cemetery but I don't think they will do a look up without a date of death. What is it that you really want to know? Hiring a researcher is expensive...unless they find what you want immediately. You may want to try more research on your own. If you can use a Family History Library you can access many records on microfilm. Elizabeth V. Cardinal evc1369@comcast.net