Dear Members of the Roll Family List, My Roll Family Genealogy Windmill has some new additions at... http://members.aol.com/whroll "The Old Fort in New York," a September 28, 1872, article from Appleton's Journal about Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island has been available on my Web pages a few weeks. I've added a new article, "Old New York," from the December, 1878, issue of Appleton's Journal. C. H. Jones reviews the then recently published book, "History of the City of New York," by Martha J. Lamb. For a book review, this article contains an amazing amount of history concerning New York during the Dutch colonial and pre-Revolutionary British period. I'm transcribing a new article, "Antiquities of New York," which appeared in the August, 1869, issue of "Catholic World." The author reviews the recently published book "Laws and Ordinances of New Netherlands," compiled and translated by E. B. O'Callaghan. The book review contains a portion of the Dutch colonial documents from the book. If you don't have access to the Web, I'd be glad to email you the text of the articles. My Genealogy Links page contains a few additional resources for researchers. Some of the pages contain the "new look" for my Web site. I would welcome comments about font sizes in the display (too large, too small, or just right?) and the general appearance of the pages in your browser, as different browsers display the pages differently. America Online's browser has the annoying feature of displaying all fonts one size larger than normal and fuzzying the graphics. All I have for testing purposes is Netscape 3.0 and AOL's brand of Microsoft Internet Explorer. A hint for those of you that have Web pages of your own...several browsers have the capability of viewing the source html (hypertext markup language) of Web pages. You can also view the html by saving the page and loading it into a word processor. I study what others have done with their pages, and learn new techniques from them. No fair copying, though...it's all copyrighted even if it doesn't say so. An incredible amount of work goes into a GEDCOM/HTML update, even though part of it is performed by conversion software. So I don't have my update ready yet. My hometown is Blythe, California, and there is a page about it at the Windmill, if you're interested. -Bill _______________________________________________________________ William Henry Roll Blythe, California [email protected] The genealogy of the ROLL, MANGEL and VAN WOGGELUM families on the World Wide Web at http://members.aol.com/whroll "A thousand candles have burned themselves out; yet I read on."