While you are at it, check out the Cairo Hial Society Facebook Page. I am running that. I think it's pretty good too, if I say so myself! :-) Sylvia ----- Original Message ----- From: "~ Ron W. ~" <ronwaldron@verizon.net> To: <nygreene@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 12:27 PM Subject: Re: [NYGREENE] Riker's > > I'll look, but I don't trust Facebook..... > > ~ Ron W ~ > In God We Trust, All Others We Monitor > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sylvia Hasenkopf" <esi@francomm.com> > To: <nygreene@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 11:50 AM > Subject: Re: [NYGREENE] Riker's > > >> Have any of you folks been watching the Jacob Leisler project on >> Facebook? >> Really fascinating account of early New Amsterdam. I think you'd love it >> Ron >> and Jim! >> >> Sylvia >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "~ Ron W. ~" <ronwaldron@verizon.net> >> To: <nygreene@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 11:46 AM >> Subject: Re: [NYGREENE] Riker's >> >> >>> >>> Thanks, Sam. >>> I'll have to take a look, that's a new one to me. May add another branch >>> to >>> my Waldron Tree which already lists 13,223 people and 4,412 marriages. I >>> try >>> to find at least 2 reference sources for each individual. Riker/Toler >>> were >>> pretty accurate for the most part, confirmed thru land deeds, tax >>> records, >>> etc. The original immigrants Joseph and Resolved Waldron are both pretty >>> well documented in Holland marriage records of the Dutch Reformed >>> Church, >>> the Dutch West Indian Co. where Joseph was a 'Butler' at their New >>> Amsterdam >>> Fort, in charge of arms, powder & shot, and Resolved was a 'Shout' or >>> sheriff under Peter Stuyvesant and later a Magistrate in the town of New >>> Haarlem. >>> >>> ~ Ron W ~ >>> In God We Trust, All Others We Monitor >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Sam Ferguson" <samf1@farm-market.net> >>> To: <nygreene@rootsweb.com> >>> Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 11:06 PM >>> Subject: Re: [NYGREENE] Riker's >>> >>> >>>> Another Riker book, "The Annals of Newtown, in Queens County, New >>>> York", >>>> dated 1852, can also be downloaded from Google Books. And there are >>>> quite >>>> a >>>> few Waldron references in the index. >>>> >>>> Sam >>>> >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "James Harder" <jaharder88@yahoo.com> >>>> To: <nygreene@rootsweb.com> >>>> Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 1:36 PM >>>> Subject: Re: [NYGREENE] Riker's >>>> >>>> >>>>> Sylvia, >>>>> >>>>> The original James Riker book (Ron's edition) was Harlem: Its Origins >>>>> and >>>>> Early >>>>> Annals published in 1881. Janice cites the later book from 1904. >>>>> Both >>>>> are free >>>>> on-line on Google books. These books are great for old stories, myths >>>>> and >>>>> history, but are unreliable for genealogy and have little to do with >>>>> Greene >>>>> County or the Revolution. >>>>> >>>>> Jim >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ________________________________ >>>>> From: Janice Hesselink <jclink51@mhcable.com> >>>>> To: nygreene@rootsweb.com >>>>> Sent: Fri, December 31, 2010 12:55:45 PM >>>>> Subject: Re: [NYGREENE] Riker's >>>>> >>>>> It's called, "The Revised History of Harlem". Author, James Riker. >>>>> Janice >>>>> On Dec 31, 2010, at 10:02 AM, Janice Hesselink wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Oh Sylvia, you really must get hold of Rikers. >>>>>> Janice >>>>>> On Dec 31, 2010, at 8:37 AM, Sylvia Hasenkopf wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Ron, what's in Riker's? Anything I should know of on Syephen Myers? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Sylvia >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>>>>>NYGREENE-request@rootsweb.com >>>>>>> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and >>>>>>> the body of the message >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>>>>NYGREENE-request@rootsweb.com >>>>>> >>>>>> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and >>>>>> the body of the message >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>>> NYGREENE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>>>> quotes in >>>>> the subject and the body of the message >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>>> NYGREENE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>>>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>> NYGREENE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> NYGREENE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NYGREENE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYGREENE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message