Hi listers, The following is a paragraph I copied from an article I just found on a history of a Vannorsdel family in Larimer Co., Colorado, at http://www.northfortynews.com/CenturyStories/199909vannorsdel.htm: "While the Vannorsdel family may be considered area old-timers by Western standards, their roots in America date back even further. The family emigrated from Holland (their Dutch name was Van Arsdelen), with some coming to New Amsterdam in 1653 and others -- including Emanuel's ancestors -- sailing to Pennsylvania in 1768. Emanuel and Phoebe ventured west more than a hundred years later, settling first in Illinois and later in Stove Prairie." Note the history says some of the family emigrated in 1653 to New York and some in 1768 to Pennsylvania. Does anybody on the list know anything about this second emigration of the Van family to Pennsylvania? Nancy Arendsee
I don't know about that emigration, but I found a passenger list some years ago that had a John Van coming from Switzerland in the 1700s. I've been searching for the note I made regarding that for at least three years. I even know what library I found the book in and now can't find the book. I just know it wasn't a book of immigrations, like we are used to seeing. It could have been a John Van who went back to Europe for some reason, but it could have been another branch of the family. I knew I should have been more orderly in my note taking, when I made that note, but I thought I could always find it again if I lost it. I was wrong! My own Vanasdal family was in PA, then OH, and then IN and I can't get past the birth of my great great grandfather, John Vanasdal, allegedly born in PA in 1823. He died after 1901 but I can't find his death certificate. He was in IN in 1900, but may have left there after his son was killed in an accident in 1901 and gone to live near one of the two remaining daughters. He had three daughters, Katherine, Lucinda, and Emily, and one was dead by 1901. I have no idea what their married names, if they married, were. Barb, in MS