This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GEELHOED Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/255.1.1 Message Board Post: Margaret, I am very interested. In fact I am nearly publishing a book about the Geelhoed-family. This is what I know of Geelhoeds in London. Does it ring a bell? It's Dutch, most of it. But I can translate it if you know more, or send it to me bij email geelhoed@introweb.nl. Till next time! Marien Children of Adriaan Geelhoed (2w-VIIIai) adn Elizabeth Anna Antonia de Widt ADRIANA MARIA GEELHOED (2w-IXaj) * 30-04-1893 te Londen JULIAN ALBERT GEELHOED (2w-IXak) * 02-11-1894 te Londen LENA MARIJ GEELHOED (2w-IXal) * 1896 te Londen x 17-03-1916 met Otto van Malsen te Buren (Geld.) OTTO VAN MALSEN * ca. 1885 te Buren, z.v. Peter Hendrikus vM. en Jenneke van Soele ADRIAAN GEELHOED (2w-IXam) * 10-04-1898 te Londen

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Geelhoed Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/255.1 Message Board Post: I am from a line of Geelhoeds who came to live in London,England about 1895-1900. I have been trying to find out information on my Grandparents who came from Rotterdam and surrounding areas. If you would like to contact me, I will forward on to you what information I have, which might, with luck, help you.

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/4130.3.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: This is how it goes: 1. Diana Jones DeGraw 2. John Livingston Jones 3. Adele Livingston 4. Eugene Livingston 5. William Henry Livingston 6. George Livingston William Henry Livingston's sister, Lucinda, married William Youngblood. Their daughter, Maude Youngblood, married Ernest Austin. Maude Youngblood Austin was a first cousin to Eugene Livingston, my great-grandfather. This Livingston/Youngblood connection is through my father's mother.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Williams Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/4144.1 Message Board Post: R.H. Williams was a photographer in the city of Rockford, MI. Looking for the years he had that business. Any help or where I can get that info would be greatly appreciated

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/4145.1 Message Board Post: Note: The preceding biography is transcribed from A.W. Bowen's *The City of Grand Rapids and Kent County*, published in 1900.

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/1991.2 Message Board Post: does anyone have any information regarding the parents of Joseph Rupprecht would love to know their names

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/4146 Message Board Post: William G. Young, M.D., the popular and successful physician and surgeion at Nos. 514-515 Widdicomb building, Grand Rapids, Mich., is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, was born February 23, 1861, a son of Andrew and Katherine (Himler) Young. Andrew Young was left an orphan in childhood and knows but little of his family, but is now a capitalist, and is living at Mancelona, Mich., with his wife and two sons. His wife was a native of Germany, but they were married in Cincinnati. The family consists of three sons and one daughter, of whom the subject of this sketch is the eldest. Adolph F. is in the insurance business at Mancelona; Carrie, wife of William Kling, resides in Grand Rapids; Adelbert B. is the younges of the family and is now in school. Dr. Young received his elementary education in his native city, and graduated from the high school He took up the study of medicine at the age of twenty years, the first course being at the Michigan college of Medicine & Surgery at Detroit, and then traveled a year or two, after which he returned to college, completing a four years' course in 1892. He then took three post-graduate courses in New York city--first at the New York Post-Granduate Medical school on surgery; the second at the New York Ployclinic, also on surgery, and the third course, on the same subject, at the New York school of Clinical Medicine. The doctor had begun general practice at St. Ignatz, Mich., in 1892, and while there he attended the post-graduate schools, as before stated. Dr. Young located in Grand Rapids in December, 1896, and entered upon general practice, which he continued until he was commissioned assistant surgeon in the United States army. This honor was the result of a competitive examination, as he was assigned to duty at Porto Rico, where he landed early in September, 1898, where he was on duty until June, 1899, when he was transferred and came home, and was discharged in the fall of 1899. His rank entitled him to the pay and emolument of a captain in the regular army. On a second competive examination Dr. Young was appointed special operator in hernia cases for the department of Porto Rico. This selection was made on the evidence of efficiency in practical surgery. He performed the first hernia operation every performed on the island or Porto Rico--the local surgeions being very illiterate on the subject of suergery. Dr. Young is a member of the American Medical association, Michigan State Medical society, Medical and Surgical society of Grand Rapids, and the Grand Rapids academy of Medicaine, is visiting surgeon to Butterworth hospital, and is a member of the Masonic fraternity, M.M.; R.A., K.T., thirty-second degree, and Shriner. Dr. Young was married at Ionia, Mich., July 5, 1885, to Miss Jessie C. Brainard, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, and a daughter of Jephtha and Mary Brainard, the father being deceased, and the mother residing at Cleveland, where Mrs. Young was educated and always resided until married. Two children were born to this union, viz: Jessic C., who died at the age of eight years, and Rose V., a little miss of four years.

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/4145 Message Board Post: Lewis George Hutchings, a prosperous and well-known young farmer of Plainfied township, Kent county, Mich., is the second son of Robert M. and Mary A. (Gross) Hutchings, and was born October 20, 1866. He was rared on the old homestead, of which more may be read in the sketch of Willis Hutchings, and remained with his parents until about twenty years of age, when, November 1, 1886, he married Miss Almeda M. Long and began the battle of life in earnest. He first hired out to a neighbor for six months and then took his wife to Minneapolis, Minn., where he secured a situation as barn boss at a saw-mill. Two years later he returned to his old home in Plainfield, remained one year, and then rented a farm in Algoma township, which he cultivated three years; he next moved to an adjoining farm on the south, which he also cultivated for three years, and then went to Newaygo county, to act as overseer of a 1,000-acre farm in Ashland township. Four years later, or in the spring of 18! 98, he purchased the old homestead of 100 acres in Plainfield township, and this he makes his present home. Mrs. Almedia M. Hutchings was born in the village of Sparta, Kent county, Mich., March 10, 1863, and is a daughter of Jacob and Margaret Fansler Long, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Pennsylvania. She has blessed her husband with three children, Mazie, Bernice and Melbourne. Mrs. Hutchings is a most amiable lady and is noted everywhere for her qualifications as a housekeeper. Mr and Mrs. Hutchings are not members of any church organization, but incline toward the doctrines of the Baptists; yet they are liberal in their contributions toward the support of church and school. In politics Mr. Hutchings upholds the democratic party, having cast his first presidential vote for Grover Cleveland in 1888. He is an intelligent, hard-working man, thrifty as well as enterprising, and well deserves the high esteem in which he is held by his neighbors.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pickett/Pigott Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/1616.1709.1 Message Board Post: Have some info of William Sr. and family, father to your William. Lived in Ayr, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. From Sutton, Bedfordshire, England.

Hi, Thanks for sending the Obit on Jacob DeZeeuw. This has given me a lot more information as all the childrens names are listed! Thanks again, Barbara Koop

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Williams Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/4144 Message Board Post: I am looking for the dates of when R. H. Williams was a photographer in Rockford, MI. Also does anyone know what the first two initials stand for. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks Todd

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/4130.3.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Is your mom's mom a Youngblood or a Livingston? Linda

Researching Byrne, Weekes, Wierda Family History in Kent County MI from down under in Australia. Any connections..... Regards Peter in sunny Qld OZ

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kFB.2ACE/4138.2.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for the suggestion. Next time I plan a research trip to ACPL, I will just take it along...unless someone wamts it in the meantime.

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/4130.3.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I am actually related to Maude Youngblood through her mother's family, the Livingston's. Her mother and my great-great grandfather were brother and sister. I have been trying to trace this part of the family for a long time. If you happen to run across a picture of her among your Austin's, I would be thrilled to get a scanned copy.

Dear Donna, Can you please do a look up for me? (My Great Grandfather is listed in the index at the URL Jen provided) Perkins, William N. Thank you so very much! Regards from California Darla Vanderlip

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Perkins, Williamson, Kievit Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/4143.1 Message Board Post: One correction already. My grandmother was born June 10, 1912 and died April of 1995 in Grand Rapids, MI Barbara

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Perkins, Williamson, Kievit Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/4143 Message Board Post: I have helped many people located info on their family on Rootsweb.com here in East Texas. I decided it was time I did a little research of my own on my Grandmmother and her family. So here goes. My grandmother was born Amber Joyce Perkins in 1918. I think her parents were Bert and Maude Perkins. She married a man by the name of Edwin "Red" Williamson in the 1930's in Grand Rapids, I think. She had five children that I know of. My mother, Donna Mae, my uncles, Ernest or Ernie, Gerome, and twin boys, who at birth were called Ronald and Donald. At a very young age the twins were given up, one of them died and some 50 years later the other twin, now know as Carl Beyne contacted my mother and was reunited with his family. After "Red" died, Amber Joyce Williamson married my father's father(my parents Leonard Lyman Kievit and Donna Mae Williamson were married in 1957) in 1963 to become Amber Joyce Perkins Williamson Kievit. My grandmother never talked about any of her family, so my facts are sketchy at best. I would very much like to know more about them. I would appreciate any help you can give me. Barbara

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hutchins, Hutchinson, Young Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/4129.10 Message Board Post: Please look up the Hutchings, Lewis & William Hutchinson. Also, the Willis Young and the other young listed. If I am be greedy, the one I need most are those from Kent Co. Thank you.

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/4130.3.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Diana, if you come across some connections with Maude and the Austins would let me know if we have a connection with our families? I have a Thomas and Alvira Williams Youngblood. Their children were Esther, Levi, and Luella, who is my great grand mother. She married Michael O'Connor from Sparta Mi. Esther married a Badgerow from Sparta. Levi married Nina, no maiden name. My great uncle Lyle O'Connor married Ruth Austin, parents David and Sara. She was an only children but She did have a lot of cousins. She also worked for the Sparta postoffice after her husband died. I am hoping that Maude married the same Austins because I have a lot of pictures of the Austin family. Are you an Austin or a Youngblood? Linda