>From: Cindy Walcott <[email protected]> >To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> >Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 19:33:38 -0400 > >...I also hope to get to the >Library of Congress to take a look at Armida Sharpin's lengthy Rapalje >genealogy called Rapelje Rasters. Still looking to prove or disprove >that connection, as I keep stumbling across it. The Raplee material in >the History of Yates Co., NY states that they believe they are Rapalje >descendants. Also, an article in a Canadian publication called Huguenot >Trails (Spring 1978) summarizes information submitted by Mrs. Margot Hall >of New Brunswick. She states that she is a desc. of John Rapalje, who >immigrated to Bear River , NS. The article says that the family >homestead is known as the Robblee homestead. She has in her possession a >portrait entitled The Rapalje Children, painted circa 1768. > >When you are a number of years into your research, time devoted to >research tends to yield less and less -- and sometimes nothing at all. >Frustrating at times -- but this e-mail list has at least regenerated my >enthusiam for my research on this family...