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    1. [ROLL-L] Attn: Bill
    2. Martha Roll
    3. Thanks for pointing out the typos in the pages I sent. Anyone getting a copy of these pages, please fix my mistakes. P. # 4, Sarah married Jacob Smith Thompson should have been born between 1779 and 1782. The 1779 is the date I have for her sister Abigail and the 1782 is the date for Jacob C. She was born between the 2. P. 53. Sarah's daughter Elizabeth was born in 1801. This was her first child. The death date for Sarah in 1803 is probably right or near to it because her son Jacob Thompson was probably born about that time. The notation on the bottom of the page about the Orchard becoming a Roll Cemetery, Lynn found that Cemetery and she tried to buy it but the man who owned the property wouldn't sell it. She said it was on private land. Evidently, it was never deeded off as a Cemetery and probably just some family graves there. I will send you a copy of this map "PATENT OF CANASTAGAGIONE" I have a friend with a scanner. It goes with another 6 pages of the Land Deeds. This is the Indian Land that the Mohawk Indians gave to Jan Mangelse. Do you have a copy of those? I also have a page, BACKGROUND OF THE ROLL FAMILY IN AMERICA as compiled by I. CLIFFORD ROLL. This mainly shows the work these men did to get the information. Roland H. Roll died in 1959 and Isaac Clifford Roll died in 1960. These pages are so old, although I have them in page protectors, they have aged. I might have to get a copy made before the scanner will work. We had trouble with it before because it was picking up every little detail. That won't be a problem but it will probably be the weekend before I get it done. On the Sickles or Strickhausen names, you may be right, it might be a variation of the spelling. On the migration to Holland, I believe they originated someplace else. I have found very early records in Germany mainly, Switzerland, England, Spain. As a matter of fact, I sent a genealogy to a relative who's daugter lived in Spain and married a Mangels. Also remember the Rolls Royce. On the research, I think I am just tired. I've been labeled a family record keeper for over 20 years. I love Genealogy but I can't keep up with it anymore and I get upset with myself a lot. I have letters stuck in all the notebooks where I need to add a new page because someone has sent the births for the family or deaths or marriages. I have sent direct genealogies to hundreds of people and with all the traveling now, when someone runs into another one by the same name, I get a phone call or letter wanting to know if I have anything on their family. I have never thrown a letter away because I was afraid I had missed something. There are notebooks full of marriage, births and census records. Nothing ever got thrown away. I feel so sorry for the person who has to clean out my house when I'm gone. Although I am not ready to die yet, I think it's time to pass this down to someone else who can be more efficient. Maybe it has grown too much for one person to handle anymore. Martha

    01/27/1998 08:40:07