Hello Terry, hope all is well. I recently paid a researcher to photograph some early records at the NYHS library and he did a good job. Moderately priced and had him put them in my Dropbox account. I had over 200 pages of early Ulster County Trustees minutes copied. The NYHS charges a $15 US fee just to allow copying and but you can take unlimited phtotos. I need to have a few additional things copied so possibly we could put our list together and and split the cost? Do you have catalog or musuem numbers since you have to reserve the material ahead of time and possibly how many pages you need copied. I can send a sample page if you want to see a sample of his work. His name is: George J. Weinmann Weinmann's Genealogical Service GJWeinmann@aol.com Cheers Chris On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 3:08 AM, THJ <tchj@btinternet.com> wrote: > Last year we came across a an original journal of four voyages > between the Netherlands and New Amsterdam 1660-1663 which is held at > the New York Historical Society and describes the following : > First Voyage : The Vergulde Otter Oct 10 - Dec 4 1660 New Amsterdam to > Texel. > Second Voyage : The Vergulde Bever May 9 - Jul 29 1661 Texel to New > Amsterdam > Third Voyage : The Hoop Sept 8 - Oct 26 1662 New Amsterdam to Texel. > Fourth Voyage : The Rooseboom Mar 30 - June 3 1663 Texel to New Amsterdam > The Journal contains an amazing level of detail about the ships, > course and weather, but, sadly, not so much about the passengers and > life during the journey. Although it was partly translated and > summarised by Dr Kenneth Scott in the 1960's (See De Halve Maen, > January 1968), his article omits a substantial amount of important > information. > > Earlier this year we were able to obtain digital images of the 1661 > voyage of De Bever on which our Van der Hoeven ancestors travelled, > but the NYHS in-house service is very expensive and I was wondering > if anyone on the D-COL list has a contact in the NY area who could > photograph the remaining pages at a suitable quality for transcribing > and translating. Happy to pay for this but our funds are rather limited. > > The translation of De Bever voyage should be online in a few days at > www.vanderhoofproject.com > > Many thanks for any help. > > Terry Haslam-Jones > Rossendale > England > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Chris Brooks Kansas City, Missouri 816-363-1831