Congratulations! -----Original Message----- From: Mark Alan Thomas/Aviva Malek <vangen@gte.net> To: VanArsdale-L@rootsweb.com <VanArsdale-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, January 17, 2000 8:54 PM Subject: [VanArsdale-L] Jacob Woodson Thomas >Mark Alan Thomas and Aviva Beth Malek are proud to announce the birth of >their son Jacob Woodson Thomas on 29 December 1999 at 4:19 P. M. at Kaiser >Permanente West Los Angeles, California. He was delivered c-section by Dr. >Hersh after 22 hours of labor, the last four of which were very difficult. >Jake weighed 8 pounds-12 ounces and measured in at 21 inches, with brown >hair and blue eyes. Our son came home to live with us on 01 January 2000, >and God has truely blessed us on this new year. He keeps us very busy, and >despite all our concerns, his peditrition tells us he is perfectly healthy. > >Jake is the newest in the line of Abraham Van Aersdalen (1708-1753) and >Maria Van Nuys (1717-1809) of Somerset County, New Jersey. > >Apparently we made it through all the Y2K hype without a hitch, and after >the move to the new street address, we even managed to keep our same e-mail >address. > >In the last month my Thomas lines have broken wide open, allowing new areas >of research in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1700's and early 1800's. >Connections are being made to the Woodson and Allen families of Virginia. >Preliminary research indicates that the father of Woodson A. Thomas >(1808-1862) of Greene County, Missouri was Allen Thomas of Stokes County, >North Carolina and Williamson County, Tennessee, b. abt. 1766 VA, and his >grandfather was probably Joseph Thomas of Virginia and Mecklenburg County, >North Carolina, b. abt. 1722 VA who married to Sarah Allen. Joseph Thomas >may have had a brother named William Thomas of Pittsylvania County, >Virginia, b. abt. 1720 VA who married to Mary Woodson. From Virginia, the >family spread to North Carolina and then Tennessee, moving on to Missouri >and Georgia. > >Mark Alan Thomas >Los Angeles, California > > >==== VanArsdale Mailing List ==== >This Van Arsdale genealogy mailing-list is AUTOMATICALLY SET so that your address may have >ONLY FOUR (4) BOUNCES before your address is automatically removed!!! >updated 02 May 1999 >