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