Lorine, You never cease to astonish me! Congrats on your new book Ted Snediker On Jun 21, 2010, at 4:37 PM, Olive Tree Genealogy wrote: > Hello everyone - > > I'm very excited to announce the completion of another book > in my NEW NETHERLAND SETTLERS series. It's taken 9 years > (gulp!) to finish up the last little bit of the book, but it's finally done. > > " New Netherland Settlers: The Stevensen and Jacobsen > Families. A genealogy to three generations of the > descendants of Maria Goosens and her husband Steven Janse > Coning who settled in Fort Orange in 1649 (Stevensen Family) > and Maria Goosens and a man named Jacob (Jacobszen Family)" > is now available. > > http://olivetreegenealogy.com/books/purchaseStevensen.shtml > > > A brief excerpt was previously published as The European > Origins of Steven Janse Coning in the December 2001, Vol. 6 > No. 4 issue of New Netherland Connections. > > My book completes several years of research into the > origins and descendants of Steven Janse Coning who was > baptized in 1617 in Nijkerk and settled in New Netherland > with his wife Maria Goosens circa 1649. By 1663 Steven and > Maria had at least 7, possibly 8 children. After their > divorce in 1663 Steven and Maria married other spouses, and > Maria had one more known child born to a man named Jacob > whose surname is unknown. This book follows Steven, Maria > and their descendants to three generations. > > The book is 154 pages fully sourced and footnoted. Six full > pages of original documents from Nijkerk are included as > well as maps. Steven and Maria's lives are set in the > historical context of the fascinating world of the early > settlement of New Netherland. Steven's newly discovered > origins and names of his parents, grandparents, great- > grandparents and siblings are documented and sourced. His > family's suffering when the Bubonic plague struck Nijkerk in > 1636 when Steven was only 18 years old is well documented > and included in the book. > > Please visit > http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/published.shtml for other > books in the series. > > Lorine > -- Lorine McGinnis Schulze > > > > -- > Follow my genealogy updates on Twitter > http://twitter.com/LorineMS > > Olive Tree Genealogy > http://olivetreegenealogy.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message