This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5666.1 Message Board Post: Hello; On ll May 2006 on this forum there is a message from Tracy Slaughter inquiring about the Centilli family. I looked up some obits and sent them to her. Do you know who she is. I do not have the copies of the obit that I sent her and would need to do it over/. Maybe you could get in touch with her . If you click on the print message it will give you her email address. Helen Ringer Kent co Mich.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5665.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: There you will find everything you need. If you run into a problem, let me know.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5665.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for your help Joan! My grandfather was the son of Cornelis Versluis and Elisabeth Flipse. I have recently learned of the ZEEUWS Archives. What a great wealth of information it contains! I don't think I have even scratched the surface yet as to family information. The information you provided me is a great beginning for my research!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Versluis, Oele, Flipse Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5665.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I looked for a Versluis groom-Flipse bride marriage in the Netherlands and found two. What is the name of Leonard Versluis's parents? We should be able to find his connection to Cornelis. In this case, two brothers, Cornelis and Jan, married two sisters, Elisabeth and Johanna. I'm not sure whom you're looking for. Source Civil register - Marriage Archive location Zeeuws Archief General Number of finding aid: 25.143 Municipality: Wissenkerke (NB) Type of record: Huwelijksakte Record number: 15 Registration date: 08-11-1893 Groom Cornelis Versluis Age: 22 Place of birth: Wissenkerke Bride Elisabeth Flipse Age: 20 Place of birth: Wissenkerke Father groom Cornelis Versluis Mother groom Elisabeth Oele Father bride Pieter Flipse Mother bride Cornelia Flipse Source Civil register - Marriage Archive location Zeeuws Archief General Number of finding aid: 25.143 Municipality: Wissenkerke (NB) Type of record: Huwelijksakte Record number: 15 Registration date: 12-05-1892 Groom Jan Versluis Age: 26 Place of birth: Wissenkerke Bride Johanna Flipse Age: 23 Place of birth: Wissenkerke Father groom Cornelis Versluis Mother groom Elisabeth Oele Father bride Pieter Flipse Mother bride Cornelia Flipse The Versluis boys' parents' marriage-- Source Civil register - Marriage Archive location Zeeuws Archief General Number of finding aid: 25.143 Municipality: Wissenkerke (NB) Type of record: Huwelijksakte Record number: 5 Registration date: 04-05-1853 Groom Cornelis Versluijs Age: 30 Place of birth: Wissenkerke (NB) Bride Elisabeth Oele Age: 22 Place of birth: Oost Kapelle Father groom Adriaan Versluijs Mother groom Cornelia Verhulst Father bride Cornelis Oele Mother bride Elisabeth Abrahamse Additional information Bgm Wdnr van Willemina Bakker ovl te Wissenkerke. The Flipse girls' parents' marriage-- Source Civil register - Marriage Archive location Zeeuws Archief General Number of finding aid: 25.143 Municipality: Wissenkerke (NB) Type of record: Huwelijksakte Record number: 10 Registration date: 05-05-1858 Groom Pieter Flipse Age: 26 Place of birth: Wissenkerke (NB) Bride Cornelia Pieternella Flipse Age: 24 Place of birth: Wissenkerke (NB) Father groom Jeremias Flipse Mother groom Susanna Duivekot Father bride Hendrik Flipse Mother bride Cornelia Boone

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5665.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: It is very likely there was a mix up when my grandfather gave his destenation information. When he left the Netherlands he could not speak English.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5665.2.1.1 Message Board Post: 6060 Crescent would not be an accurate address. The addressing system changed in 1912. So if it were 606 Crescent it would fit. It would be near Prospect Avenue and probably now be part of Heritage Hill.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5665.2.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for all your help Barbara! I very much apprciate what you have done. On the ship passenger list there is an addrress for Cornelis Flipse. It is 6060 Cresent St. From the information I found so far the Flipse family have been in the province of Zeeland since the late 1700's. Perhaps earlier than that. Not sure of their origons prior to that. Thanks again!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5662.2 Message Board Post: Also Check at castlegarden.org That was before Ellis Island and has some preetty interesting information. Charlene

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5665.3 Message Board Post: Looked up obits. None for a Cornelius Flipse out of 42 Laurence 3 Jun 1940 Jean 1 Mar 1978 Cornelia 4 Feb 2001 (She's the one) Jacob 3 Aug 1933 Andrew 8 May 1936 Martha 4 Mar 1953 So she was the last one in her immediate family.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5665.2 Message Board Post: I have to admit I deleted your previous letter so am adding this on to someone else's reply. Since the Flipse being Dutch was a revelation to me, I had to look that up and yes they were Dutch. I remember a little old lady who lived on Alpine Ave in a yellow house covered in gingerbred with a yellow picket fence and dark green shades. She had never married and had lived there all her life. There was quite a write up in the GR press when she died a few years ago. Her grandfather had built the house. I think she was the last in her immediate family. So I looked up the census and found no Cornelius Flipse but did find the Flipse family for that yellow house: 1147 Alpine Ave NW 1930 census Lawrence Flipse 60 owner worth $5000 b. Neth carpenter parents b. France immigrated 1880 Marjorie wife 59 b. Neth par b. Neth Jack son 25 S, Jean dau 23 S, Connie dau 20 S. all born Michigan I think Jean was the old lady. 1920 Census Laurence 60 immi 1886 Nat 1891 Holland par b. Hollnad carpenter Margie wife 53 immi 1885 b. Holland par b. Holland Andrew son 26 b. MI Jennie dau 23 b. Mi Jacob son 18 b. MI Cornelia dau 12 b. MI There are two more Flipse families: Peter b. Holland and Abraham b. Holland who also has a dau named Cornelia I have to admit I would have never guessed that Flipse was Dutch. Swierenga has an immigration/emmigration list that was published. The GRPL has a copy. If it's on line I don't know where. I wonder, could Flipse be Friesian?

Greetings, Mike; I cannot help you with the Flipse family, but the other name you mention is interesting to me. I have a friend that I have known since kindergarten in GR, MI who said his grandfather was Leonard A. Versluis. He said he owned the radio station WLAV named after his initials. My friends name is Robert Werkema. Is the Werkema name in your family, also? I am a cousin to Bob's brother. Another interesting thing about your post is a similarity to your name. I also had some friends in GR by the name of Heyer; Robert and Roger who were twins. Robert passed away last year, I think. Any connections? Carl W. Veenstra ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 8:56 AM Subject: [MIKent] Flipse > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Flipse, Versluis > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5665 > > Message Board Post: > > I am seeking information about a Cornelis Flipse that lived in Grand > Rapids, Michigan in the 1920's. My grandfather Leonard Versluis stayed > with Cornelis after arriving in the USA. On the ship passenger list > Cornelis is listed as a cousin to my grandfather. > > Thanks! > > Mike Heier > > > ==== MIKENT Mailing List ==== > Web Page for the MIKENT list - > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/MI/kent.html > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Centilli Benjamin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5666 Message Board Post: Benjamin was my father's (Carl Harold Centilli) Father. He moved to Chicago from Grand Rapids in the late 1800's early 1900's to find better work opportunities. There he met my grandmother and they settled there. Their children were my father and his sister (Mildred). He was the son of Andrew and Johanna (Muller)Centilli. Ben had four brothers and a sister, Frank, Lloyd, Adolph, Andrew and Rose One brother was nicknamed "Babe" perhaps because he was the youngest ? Maybe it was Adolph as I never heard about him growing up, just great uncles Frank, Lioyd, Andy, Babe and aunt Rose. I had the opportunity to meet them all except my grandfather Ben as he died in 1937 in Chicago. I was very young when I met them. (10-12 yrs.) But we went to see Aunt Rose every year as she was my dads favorite. I was told by my dad that his lineage came from southern Italy in the early 1800's then left there to escape oppression and settled in Poland where my Great Grandfather Andrew was born. He ! left for Prussia as a young man and served in the German/Prussian Army then met my Great Grandmother (Johanna Muller) married her and immigrated to the U.S. and settled in Grand Rapids Mich. Any info you may have that adds or contradicts to this, please send me. My name is James R. Centilli, I'm 61 yrs old and am a retired firefighter living out my years in Beautiful sunny Fl. I have a son James Scott Centilli (33 yrs old) that lives with his wife and daughter in Kalamazoo, and a daughter, Kristie Lee Centilli that Lives in Ann Arbor Mich. My E-Mail is [email protected]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5665.1.1 Message Board Post: Barbara, you are correct in that I am refering to a Dutch Family. My grandfather was born in Wissenkerke, Noord Beveland, Zeeland, Netherlands. I think this Cornelis Flipse is a 1st cousin to my grandfather. The maiden name of my grandfather's mother was Flipse. Thanks!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5665.1 Message Board Post: I get the impression you are talking about a Dutch family. There was a Flipse (Polish) family who lived on the west side. An old lady lived in the home her grandfather had built. The house is still standing.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/4464.2.2.2 Message Board Post: Tammy, May married Ervin Revillo Vannortwick, do you know when she was born, married and died?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Flipse, Versluis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5665 Message Board Post: I am seeking information about a Cornelis Flipse that lived in Grand Rapids, Michigan in the 1920's. My grandfather Leonard Versluis stayed with Cornelis after arriving in the USA. On the ship passenger list Cornelis is listed as a cousin to my grandfather. Thanks! Mike Heier

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5662.1 Message Board Post: Have you checked the Ellis Island Website? www.ellisisland.org. Some of the information is not accurate, but sometimes you can get a lead. If they both came over as children, they should be listed along with their parent(s). It helps, too, that you know the date of their immigration, so that you can verify the names, etc.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5663.3 Message Board Post: Van Wieren, Gerald J. Van Wieren aged 53 of l944 Kraft St. NE passed away Sat. aft. He is survived by his wife Nellie;7 sons, Herman and Paul of Wyoming;Gordon;Roger; Jerry Lee; Larry A; Michael J.; all of Grand Rapids; 2 daughters Mrs. Allen (miriam) DeVol of Wyoming and Pamela Sue at home. 6 grandchildren 3 brothers; Ray and Robert of Holland and Kenneth Van Wieran of Chicago; 2 sisters. Mrs. Arthur (Harriett) Bronson and Mrs. Gary (Helen) Grisson both of Holland. Several nieces and nephews. Mr. Van Wieren reposes at Van Strien Alman Mortuary l833 Plainfield Ave. Ne where funeral services will be held Tues at l.30 pm with Rev Charles R. Wood of Northland Baptist Church officiating. Military graveside services will be held at Rosedale Park Helen Ringer Kent co Mich.

Hi everyone, I wanted to announce the following. I hope someone has research interests in the village of Alton. September 16, from 10 am - 5 pm, We are celebrating the Village of Alton in the year 1896. This was the heyday of the village. We have two goals, 1. to get the empty historical church building opened up for those who wish to see it, and 2. to give people a view of what life was like in the Alton village in 1896. 1. The Alton church building was built in 1868 and has always been a community type of building. At one time three congregations alternated using the building. It has been empty for over thirty years, and is in desperate need of help. It belongs to the community, so we'd like to see it used for historical educational purposes. The committee who oversees the building has approved and is excited about beginning the collection process of a research/archive room. We would REALLY appreciate those who have researched the area and families in the area to share with us. We will have some fund raiser things to try and raise some money such as baked goods and booklets and materials put together for the day on the history of the village. 2. To accomplish this we have a cemetery tour set up highlighting some of the people who were buried by 1896, and the bounds of the cemetery in 1896. This includes some of our pioneers, and civil war casualties. We also have educational displays set up regarding different areas of life in 1896. We will have a presentation on the Swiss in Alton, along with an old fashioned hymn sing. The schedule is below. Please feel free to email with any questions, or for directions. We are located on the intersection of Lincoln Lake Ave and 3 mile, 6 miles straight north of Lowell. Thanks for your time! Shantell Ford Celebration schedule- 10 - Cemetery tour 11 - Swiss in Alton 12 - Lunch available by donation 1 - Old fashioned hymn sing 4 - Cemetery tour

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5664.1 Message Board Post: I found this in l880 census for Ohio Tully, Van Wert Oh 257A John shaw age 59 b Ohio father b. Pa mother b. Md Eleanor Shaw age 57 wife Stephen Shaw age 20 Frances Engleright dau widow age 33 b. Oh Harry Engleright grandson age ll b. Mich father b. Mi mother b. Ohio Anna B. Engleright granddau age 9 b. Mi. Eleanor Engleright, granddau age 7 b. Mich. Helen Ringer not related