The old livingston cemetary is about 3 miles from my house on licingston rd. The only two stone of the ones you mentioned as being there that come to mond are abraham and his wife,. >From: "Elsie H. Wilson" <ehwilson@charter.net> >Reply-To: NYDUTCH-L@rootsweb.com >To: NYDUTCH-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [NYDUTCH] VISSER/VISCHER/FISHER/ , VANALSTYNE, BESHURES >Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 21:30:10 -0500 > >Dear Casey, >You might try to check Columbia Co. NY records and see what you can build >from both ends on your Van Alstyne line. >My Van Alstyne line came from Columbia Co. NY (Kinderhook is where the >VanAlstyne family settled originally) to Montgomery Co. and then to Steuben >Co. >Olive Tree Genealogy has a good outline of Van Alstyne genealogy. >http://olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/surnames/vanalst.shtml > Abraham is a very frequently used name in the Van Alstyne family. >Elsie Wilson > >At 10:07 AM 5/17/02 -0400, you wrote: >>Hello all! I am researching the above surnames in Wayne County. I am >>rather >>new to Dutch ancestry and am glad to be a part of a list that will help me >>share what I find and learn more as I go. Please excuse the length of >>this >>email as I feel a rather long dissertation coming on. :) >>I originally began my research in Wayne county through my mother's >>BESHURES >>surname. (family story says this is a German or Dutch surname) Her >>parents >>had lived in Sterling, NY just North of Wayne County. I found her >>father's >>family in Hannibal, NY and then futher back to Wayne County where the line >>just stopped. I discovered that my gr gr grandfather George BESHURES had >>actually been born in the State of Ohio but both his parents were born in >>New >>York State. This told me that his parents had been in Ohio for several >>years >>and left the question. Where did the Husband go? Did he die or just >>disappear? I found George and his 3 siblings listed with their Mother >>Lucinda VANALSTYNE through census records living with her parents in Wayne >>County 1850. Lucinda's father was Abraham VANALSTYNE b abt May 1790 d 15 >>Jan >>1873. Abraham, Lucinda, and two of the BESHURES children (as adults) are >>buried in The Old Livingston Cemetery in Wolcott, Wayne County. I find >>the >>reason for them being buried in this 'family ' cemetery was that Lucinda >>remarried to Jacob LIVINGSTON b Abt Apr/Mar 1808 d 12 Oct 1895. I have >>found >>no further information on Abraham or Lucinda but am continually searching. >>The underlying story to this must be epic as my paternal family has turned >>up >>Welsh, Scottish, and French! >> >>Casey >> >> >>============================== >>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 > > >============================== >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 > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.