At 09:40 AM 01-27-1998 -0600, you wrote: > 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 > Dear Martha, What a kind offer, Martha! No, I don't have any of that stuff. I do have "The Abraham Roll Family from New Jersey Pioneers in Hamilton County, Ohio" by I. Clifford Roll that appeared in the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio Bulletin, and a few scattered copies of some I. Clifford Roll correspondence related to that article. Of course, I'd love to have the stuff you mentioned. Well, about the only good documentation I have for my genealogy are some things Nancy, Robin, Frank Cramer, Barb Hamilton, and some others (can't recall their names at the moment, sorry) were nice enough to send me. I have also received some excellent photographs of ROLL ancestors and tomb stones, although not of ROLLs in my direct line. I plan to put them on my web pages if the permission is still there. Can't recall whose photos they were, I think some of them were Nancy's. Actually, I'm amazed at what others have done for me. Just the other day a complete stranger sent me my complete Shipman line back to the 17th century. no strings attached. Right! That's one of the big reasons I put up my web page. The only way to save this information for posterity it to ~spread~ it as widely as possible. Donating a genealogy to libraries is ok, but who knows if anyone will ever see it. Yes, there are errors in the information. But there will always be errors. The more people that have the information the better. I want to buy a scanner. I thought now that our eight kids are grown up, it would be cheaper. Right? Wrong. The kids cost more now then they ever did when they were little. Hang in there, Martha. I'm just starting to get requests for information myself. And I will send it out. But, I'll pace myself. I look at it as a kind of volunteer community service. Sincerely, William Henry Roll [email protected] _________________________________________________________________ William Henry Roll Blythe, California [email protected] The Roll Family Genealogy Windmill http://members.aol.com/whroll "A thousand candles have burned themselves out; yet I read on."