Hi Jim and Everyone, Guess what, I have Van Liew blood in me! It's one of the many old Dutch-American families that migrated together in waves to the Fairview area of Fulton Co. from Somerset Co., New Jersey from about 1837 to 1845. Before New Jersey they lived in New York. You can read about this NJ to IL Dutch migration on my family website at: http://stipak.com/hageman/williambrown/Illinois.HTM#EMIG Included were the Brokaw, Voorhees, Hageman, Suydam, Ten Eyck, Hoagland, Powelson, Wyckoff, Groenendyke, Pumyea, Polhemus, Wilson, Williamson, Vanderveer, Van Arsdale, and many other Dutch-American families. Most of "us" together founded and belonged to the Fairview Dutch Reformed Church. This church is still wonderfully vibrant, and has a keen sense of its history; for a real treat visit the church's website at: http://churches.rca.org/fairviewreformed/ When you read the part about an early member of the church dousing the flames late one night when lightning struck it, think of my ILFulton cousin Roxanne and me-- that was our ancestor Isaac Hageman Sr.! Our immigrant Dutch ancestors founded New York in the early 1600s, although they called it New Netherlands then. I have spent many hours researching them, and share everything I can on my family website complex. To begin to learn more about the early origins of some of these families, you can go to this page: http://stipak.com/vanderveer/maria/MariaVanderveer.HTM Then enter the name(s) you want to search in the search engine there, and click on the links it finds. That is just one of several homepages on my personal website; you can click on links to other families mentioned there, like Hageman and Hoagland, to reach different areas of my website. For example, to read about the immigrant ancestor (Frederick Hendricksen VAN LIEW) of our Van Liew family, please go here: http://stipak.com/hoagland/maria/bios/2.HTM#P9992 If any of you are interested in pursuing early Dutch-American immigrant genealogy, write me off list and I will recommend some additional websites and mailing lists. So, Jim, now you know one living Van Liew descendant, anyway! Yours, Alice Jim Lawson wrote: >Back in 1957 a Cecil van Liew who was interested in genealogy sent a couple of letters of inquiry and some other information to my father-in-law, Rev. Marshall D. Ulm. I don't know if my father-in-law or one of his sisters ever replied to Mr. Van Liew. > >I don't know if Mr. van Liew is still alive or capable (for health reason) of doing genealogical research or if this has passed to one of his descendents. > >Based on what I read in his letters, the Ulm, Van Liew, Voorhees and Brokaw families intermarried in the mid 1800's. I have Voorhees and Brokaw families in my background, but have not yet encountered Van Liew. > >Is there someone who can shed light on any of this or put me in contact with some of Mr. Van Liew's descendents? > >Thanks, Jim > > >==== ILFULTON Mailing List ==== >To UNsubscribe from the mailing list in DIGEST MODE send a message to: > [email protected] >Put ONLY the word "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the body (Turn off any signature files) > > > >