>Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 21:10:17 -0700 >From: [email protected] >...[original message sent to Cindy Walcott]: > > I have had trouble believing the families were related since I >stood at Thomas Robblee's grave in Annapolis, NS. and not 15 feet away >is buried one Jeronimus Rapalje. Spelled both as you see them here. >Jeronimus had died just 2 years earlier than Thomas and there is no >mistaking the spellings. And of course, I have found no further verified >ties anywhere else. > Your comment on the Rapalje Rasters jogged my memory and I found >the notes sent to me from Joyce Atkin from a Barbara Doty of NY. She >traced her ancestry through John Roblyer of NY. to an Andrew Roblyer, >married Dorcas?, and was looking for two, not one, relations one >generation farther back. Hopefully, one day I will come across her >research. I believe the 2 were Andrew and William Rublier from LI. NY. > In her letter to Joyce, she mentioned these Rapalje Rasters and of >course, I will await your gleanings after your return from DC. The >letter was dated in the early 80's. On the subject of Mrs. Hall who >claimed ancestry from John Rapalje of Bear River, and had a portrait of >children from 1768, is there any other information you have to track her >in NB? Let me know because there is now someone interested from >Fredericton, NB. where the Archives for NB are located. > Good luck on your trip to DC. Genealogy is much like fishing, I >find. Much time spent some times for little or no results and then, one >day, usually from an unexpected source, Bingo. Look to hear from you >soon. >Bob Robblee >