For those searching their Anglican/Episcopal roots, please be aware that 
information about their ancestors who may have been:

     born in, 
     baptized in, 
     in an orphanage run by, 
     educated in,
     married in,
     or buried within

a facility under the auspices of the Anglican or Episcopal Church is not so 
easy to obtain.  Unfortunately, your search is a bit more complicated and not 
as direct as is the search of those with Roman Catholic roots.

Anglican or, since the Revolution (the first Civil War, as some have referred 
to the war with Britain), the Episcopal Church records are kept by the 
individual church.  Only those churches that have been dissolved and not
absorbed into another church may have had their records forwarded to the 
Diocese.  Also unlike Roman Catholic record keeping organization, when the 
Episcopal Diocese of Long Island was separated from the Episcopal
Diocese of New York, the records (what ever they were) went with the new 
diocese, they did not stay with the previous diocese.

With that said ...
The Episcopal Diocese of New York gave birth to the Episcopal Diocese of Long 
Island (at least Episcopalians are very good geographers as they have defined 
Long Island as all 4 counties:  Kings, Queens, Nassau & Suffolk) in 1868.

As I just wrote, the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island takes in all 4 counties 
(including the Hamlet of Fishers Island in the Town of Southold, which is in 
the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hartford, as in Connecticut). 

The Episcopal Diocese of New York has a similar geography to the Catholic 
Archdiocese of New York as both cover the remaining 3 boroughs of New York 
City (Staten Island, Manhattan and the Bronx, also known as Richmond, New 
York and Bronx Counties) as well as Westchester, Rockland and additional 
upstate counties.

The respective archival sources are:

Ms. Nancy Signiore
Administrative Assistant to the 
Deputy for Finance & Administration
EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF LONG ISLAND
36 Cathedral Drive
Garden City,  NY 11530


e-Mail:  wkempton@dioceseny.org

tel:  516/248-4800, X11
fax: 516/248-1616


Mr. Wayne Kempton
Archivist
EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF NEW YORK
1047 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10025

e-Mail:  archives@dioceseny.org
tel:  212/316-7419
fax: none

For those trying to reach Mr. Wayne Kempton of the NY Diocesan Archives
for the Episcopal Church, his new email address is
archives@dioceseny.org
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