This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stymiest, Becker, Harder, Gomsrud Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0gB.2ACI/210.1 Message Board Post: I'd have dinner with my gggggg....grandfather Casparus. I'd like to get more insight into what it was really like to be one of America's first families, to settle Long Island, among other things. Steve