Congratulations, Mark!! It's a good thing you got those 196 pages done before the birth of Jake. I don't think you'll be having as much time for such things for a while. (g) Barb, in MS ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Alan Thomas/Aviva Malek <vangen@gte.net> To: <VanArsdale-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 9:45 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 >