Hello fellow Dutch Colonies researchers I'm excited to announce two more completed books in my series on New Netherland Settlers at http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/published.shtml New Netherland Settlers. A Walloon in New Amsterdam: The Story of Adriaen Vincent and his Wife Madaleen Eloy. by Lorine McGinnis Schulze published June 2010. Coil bound 8.5x11. 94 p ISBN: 978-0-9680744-8-0 Adriaen Vincent and his wife Madaleen were Walloons, meaning French speaking protestants from Belgium, who settled in New Netherland in its early days. Adriaen was accused in court of being a bigamist and I hoped that research in Amsterdam records would reveal the truth. Thus my search in available Amsterdam records began. Some of the mysteries were solved. Others were not. This book is the result of my Amsterdam research. New facts were found about Adriaen and his wife (including her full name), and the baptisms of children in Amsterdam were discovered. These are fully explained in the book and images of records are provided for interested descendants. Information about Adriaen and his family in New Amsterdam is also included and I hope that descendants will enjoy their story as much as I enjoyed researching it. The book also straightens out the confusion in two Vincent families - Adriaen Vincent and Francis Vincent (and his siblings). Researchers have confused the two for years and have assigned children to Adriaen that are not his. Proof of family relationships is provided and all sources are footnoted. It is 94 pages set in the historical context of the early Dutch settlement in New Netherland (now New York). The history of New Netherland, customs, religious practices, and settlement of Fort Orange (Albany) are discussed in depth. An explanation of the patronymic system of naming, the barter system of paying for goods and the English translation of common Dutch words used in church records is also provided. See http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/surnames/vincent.shtml ************* The second book is 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) . published June 2010. 8.5x11 Coil bound. 154 p. ISBN: 978-0-9680744-7-3 See http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/surnames/stevensen.shtml A brief excerpt from my book New Netherland Settlers: The Stevensen and Jacobsen Familes 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. Lorine -- Follow my genealogy updates on Twitter http://twitter.com/LorineMS Olive Tree Genealogy http://olivetreegenealogy.com