MRShriners@aol.com wrote: > Hi, > I was so happy to find your information under "Michael's & Matthew's > > Ancestors concerning the Van Arsdall/Van Arsdalen Family. Just now I > was > checking it out again to recommend it to a relative working on the > same line > of that family. To my disappointment, it tells me that it has been > withdrawn > .There are many sites for this family.However, we come from Ida Van > Arsdalen > and her husband; John Houtz. Your ID 105190 placed her into a definite > > family. The records you found used the spelling "Johan Honts". We > have run > into this spelling before and are sure it is out ancestor. We also > were sure > that this Ida was a daughter of Cornelius but with dozens of men named > > Cornelius Van Arsdalen we had no idea which was our Ida's father. Your > > records gave us that information and we were able to trace the family > back > farther using other web sites.It is a difficult family to trace.For > generations, they have used the same names for children in every > generation. > I am wondering if you plan to return this material to the net. It > surely > was a find for us and we would appreciate it being returned. > Christina Houtz 1782-1807 was a daughter of Ida and John. She > married > Rudolph Spangler Sr.. They were my g-g-g-g-grandparents. I'm doing > "trees" > for my children and grandchildren and would like to assemble as many > of > their ancestors as possible. Thank you so much for sharing your > research with > others who descend from this family. Fred and Lucille Shriner Yes, I will be returning it as soon as I have cleared some errors. Unfortunately I no longer have the data you want as I deleted some of the family branches when my database become too large (sorry). You may want to conduct a search of the older e-mail letters sent to the VanArsdale Mailing List <http://resources.rootsweb.com/~clusters/surnames/v/a/VANARSDALE/>. In the meantime, I will forward your letter to the Van Arsdale Genealogy Mailing List <VanArsdale-L@rootsweb.com> as much of my information came from there and you may well find a cousin or two amongst those who respond to your letter .... Terri Rene