Dear List Members, Roland's suggestion IS a good one. Thank you, Roland. This was also covered in my Welcome letter to you all when you joined. We are a fast-growing list and have, to date, 128 members combined between the List and Digest. In order for any list to be successful, though, it takes more than a large list of members. Although some have posted, I again would like to encourage everyone to post their surname interests and the counties they are searching in. I am sure we would all like to help one another. I am including the Welcome letter here for the benefit of those that may have overlooked it" "Welcome! You have been accepted as a member of the NYDUTCH-L message list. I hope you will enjoy your membership. I am asking everyone to post a "Hello" to the list to introduce themselves, and tell us where their interests lie. This message list is primarily for anyone with a genealogical interest in people from the Netherlands who settled in New York, hopefully focusing on that migration which began after 1800, as opposed to the DutchColonies-L list which deals with an earlier period. After you read this, it would be helpful if you sent a note to the NYDUTCH-L message list introducing yourself and noting the Surnames you are looking for. Please tell us where and when your Dutch immigrated in NY and where and when they emigrated from in Holland. Do you have any stories about your family you'd like to share? Any favorite traditions or customs handed down? How about recipes? Obits, Census records. Research tips on searching in the US and in the Netherlands. Websites. New York State is riddled with Dutch settlements. They are part of the fabric of the American culture that make it so unique. Of course, we'll want to search for our ancestor roots, post our surnames and look for those connections. But, the other objectives of this list are not only to make contact with our ancestors and new cousins, but to discover our heritage, by enriching what we know about them, their everyday lives, so we can begin to put flesh and bones to names and dates of our ancestors! And naturally, to have fun in the process! Hope to hear from you soon on the list! Cathy Collier, List Administrator" Cathy Collier Listowner: PAPKE-L, KUTSCHKE-L, BRASSER-L and NYDUTCH-L @Rootsweb.com Papke & Collier Genealogy Home Page http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/o/l/Cathleen-M-Collier/index.html#lin ks Pommernkontakte (managed by Gunthard Stuebs) http://pommernkontakte.de/index.html?sessid=902c28d2590217e7f984864cd40a4281 &mode=page&db=rc&page=welcome Grandparents are similar to a piece of string handy to have around and easily wrapped around the fingers of grandchildren. ----- Original Message ----- From: "GARY RADCLIFFE" <GLRadcliffe@msn.com> To: <NYDUTCH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, 19 May, 2002 3:38 AM Subject: [NYDUTCH] Van Duyne Descendant > In answer to Roland's suggestion that we submit our Dutch ancestors' names, > I am a Van Duyne. My Van Duynes are now known as DINE. > > I'm particularly interested in the Van Duyne wills but have found only one so far > on the DUTCH-COLONIES-List. Lots of archives there. > > Gary Radcliffe > West Covina, CA > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >