It has been very quiet and I wanted to make sure I haven't been dropped from the list. It's a busy time of year for a lot of us but I'm still working on sorting through my misc. Roblee scraps of paper. Is anyone working on a line from Joris Jansen down to our Roblees? Some of us may not believe there is a connection there but if anyone is researching the children, I would be interested. My brief forays on rootweb have turned up no connection that I see. Russell Shorto's "Island at the Center of the World" was an easy read, a real hoot as we say, and tells a lot of juicy detail about the early settlement on Manhattan Island. Even if you don't subscribe to the Huguenot theory, it was a great book. Another great book is "The Seven Daughters of Eve" by Bryan Sykes. It explains about Mitochondrial DNA in a way that I could understand all of it but in enough detail to keep you on the edge of your seat (or up most of the night) reading. DNA reasearch anyone? Especially our French Roblee cousins? Happy Halloween if I don't talk to any of you. Phyllis Reed

Hi Phyllis -- It isn't unusual for this list to go through long dry periods, for sure. Regarding the Rapalje family -- for quite a while I collected information on Joris and Catalina and their desc. I have them in my database with all of their descendants that I could find at that time, in hopes that I could find a possible link to our family. But, I couldn't. I would be happy to send a report to anyone who would like to take up where I left off. Cindy -----Original Message----- From: PMaeveReed@aol.com [mailto:PMaeveReed@aol.com] Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 4:26 PM To: ROBLEE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Yoooohooo! Is Anyone Out There? It has been very quiet and I wanted to make sure I haven't been dropped from the list. It's a busy time of year for a lot of us but I'm still working on sorting through my misc. Roblee scraps of paper. Is anyone working on a line from Joris Jansen down to our Roblees? Some of us may not believe there is a connection there but if anyone is researching the children, I would be interested. My brief forays on rootweb have turned up no connection that I see. Russell Shorto's "Island at the Center of the World" was an easy read, a real hoot as we say, and tells a lot of juicy detail about the early settlement on Manhattan Island. Even if you don't subscribe to the Huguenot theory, it was a great book. Another great book is "The Seven Daughters of Eve" by Bryan Sykes. It explains about Mitochondrial DNA in a way that I could understand all of it but in enough detail to keep you on the edge of your seat (or up most of the night) reading. DNA reasearch anyone? Especially our French Roblee cousins? Happy Halloween if I don't talk to any of you. Phyllis Reed ==== ROBLEE Mailing List ==== Please visit our new web site - http://www.robleesonline.org/