(a work in progress)
Contents
Introduction
| A good deal of the information in this Ahnentafel report
comes from secondary sources. While I consider most of these
sources quite reliable, I continue, naturally, to research
and verify the data. Any information concerning this data is
greatly appreciated. I would like to thank the following people and institutions for their contributions to this work: Dave Anthes; Norman Badum; Neil Barber; Ronny Bodine; William Bogardus; Doug Bradley; Gil Bunker; Everett Church; Ramona Church; Jennifer Clark; Paul Dean; Frank Dennis; Joe Dewald; John DeWitt; John Blythe Dobson; Zelda Dubel; Cheryl Edwards; Richard W. Field; Sean Foley; W. S. Grimes; Glenn Harris; Rev. Allyne Holz; Phil Hudson; David Hughes; Wiley Jarrell; Jane Judd; Dave Keeney; Robert Latimer; John & Priscilla Leith; Anne Merklee; Harry Merklee; Norman Merklee; Rose Percoco Merklee; Warren Merklee; Walter Nieber; Morton Noble; Pat Owen; Scott Prentice; Donna Speer Ristenbatt; Gary Boyd Roberts; Darlene Root; Edward B. Root; Jay Root; Lorine McGinnis Schulze; Robert Sewell; Shari Simonds; David Sisson; Cor Snabel; Arlene Stalzer; Glen Swartz; Donald Tillitson; Brian Tompsett; Jackie Towner; B. F. Vance; Mary Beth Wheeler; Sheila F. Whipple; Alan B. Wilson; Carolyn Proffitt Winch; Lesley Wischmann; Christopher Wynkoop; Marion & Terry Yacona; GenServ; Ancestry.com; Yates Publishing; AOL Genealogy Forum; Lancashire History Quarterly; Dutch-Colonies-L; Gen-Medieval-L; The New York Public Library; The New York City Archives; The National Archives - Northeast Branch; The New York Genealogical & Biographical Society; The New England Historic Genealogical Society; The LDS Family History Center, Emerson, NJ; Higginson Book Company; Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY; Woodside Cemetery, Dumont, NJ; Old South Church Cemetery, Bergenfield, NJ; my wife for putting up with this; and anyone I may have forgotten. The following works were consulted: "1620 Visitation of Devonshire" "American Ancestors and Cousins of the Princess of Wales" by Roberts & Reitwiesner "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700" by Frederick Lewis Weis "The Bottum (Longbottom) Family Album" by Rebekah Deal Oliver "A Brief Genealogical History of Robert Starkweather" by Carlton Lee Starkweather "Les Ancestres de Charlemagne" by Settipani "Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings and Nobles" by William George Searle "Anneke Jans in Fact and Fiction" by George Olin Zabriskie, F.A.S.G. in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, April 1973. "Campbell Family History" by J. Montgomery Seaver "A Catalogue of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut" The Christian Intelligencer of the Reformed Dutch Church (1830 to 1871) "Colonial Families of the United States of America" by George Norbury Mackenzie The Columbia Encyclopedia DAR Lineage Books "Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620-1700" compiled by Frank R. Holmes "Descendants of Capt. Samuel Church of Churchville" by E. A. Emens "Descendants of John Thomas of New Haven, CT" by Mary Stewart Kyritis "Early Families of New London and Vicinity" compiled by Col. Charles Dyer Parkhurst Encyclopedia Britannica "Europaeische Stammtafeln" edited by Detlev Schwennicke "Families of Early Hartford, CT" by Lucius Barnes Barbour "Family History: English Origins of New England Families, 1500s-1800s" "First Families of America: The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy" by Frederick A. Virkus "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England" by James Savage "Genealogical research for Col. C. D. Parkhurst of New London, CT." by Homer W. Brainard "Genealogies of the Raymond families of New England, 1630/1 to 1886" by Samuel Raymond "Genealogy of the Bridgman Family" by Burt N. Bridgman & Joseph C. Bridgman "Gentlemen of Courage Forward" by Lawrence Hill. "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633" by Robert Charles Anderson "History and Genealogy of the Prentice, Prentis, and Prentiss Families" by Linus Joseph Dewald (1997) "History of New London, Connecticut, From the First Survey of the Coast in 1612 to 1860. Volumes 1 & 2 by Frances Manwaring Caulkins "History of Norwich Connecticut" by F. M. Calkins "Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs" edited by Cuyler Reynolds "The Huntington Family in America" by Huntington Family Association "Hyde Genealogy" by Reuben H. Walworth "Immigrants to New England, 1700-1775" by Ethel Stanwood Bolton Lutheran Church Records, Amsterdam Archives, The Netherlands "Mary Perkins Genealogical Records" compiled by John Baldwin House "Mattoon Family Genealogy" by L. G. Mattoon & D. P. Mattoon "Mayflower Vital Records, Deeds and Wills, 1600s-1900s" by Susan E. Roser "The Neo-Roman Consul, 987-1040" by Bernard S. Bachrach and Fulk Nerra "The New England Historic Genealogical Register" (various volumes, 1847-2001) "New London Vital Statistics from the Collated Copy from the Original Records, Vol. 1" compiled by Grace Shaw Woldf New York City Directories The New Yorker (newspaper, 14 July 1838) "Pilgrim: A Biography of William Brewster" by Maray B. Sherwood "Pilgrim Father Captain Myles Standish of Duxbury Lancashire and Massachusetts" by Helen Moorwood in Lancashire History Quarterly "The Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III and Queen Philippa" by George Andrews Moriarty "Robert Campbell Genealogy" by Rev. Frederick Campbell, "Root Genealogical Records" by James Pierce Root "The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants" by Gary Boyd Roberts "Le Sang de Charlemagne" by J. Saillot "Scandinavian Immigrants in New York 1630 - 1674" by John O. Evjen "The Shapleigh, Shapley and Shappley Families, A Comprehensive Genealogy 1635-1993" by Brian J. L. Berry "Simeon Church of Chester Connecticut (1708-1792) and his Descendants" by Charles Washburn Church "The Standish Family 1189-1920" by Eleanor Johnson "Stubborn for Liberty, the Dutch in New York" by Alice P. Kenney "Vital Records of Norwich 1659-1848" compiled by the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut "The Waterman Family, Volume 1, Descendants of Robert Waterman" by Donald Lines Jacobus "Wynkoop Genealogy in the United States of America" by Richard Wynkoop The following web sites were consulted: Ancestry.com The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle The Anneke Jans & Everardus Bogardus Descendants Web Page Baptisms at the Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam (1639-1730) Britannia: The History of Lympstone (Devon) Bunker Family Association Burke's Peerage Columbia Encyclopedia Directory of Royal Genealogical Data Egypt2Britain Encyclopedia Britannica GenealogyBookShop.com GenealogyLibrary.com The Genealogy Page of John Blythe Dobson GenServ Harris/Van Buren Genealogy Higginson Books HyperTree.com The Life of King Alfred MayflowerHistory.org MrJumbo's Genealogy The New England Historic Genealogical Society The Olive Tree Genealogy Homepage On the Trail of Our Ancestors/Dutch Research Corner PrenticeNet The Prose Edda of Snorri Sturlson Rampant Scotland Directory - Famous Scots RootsWeb Standish History The Virtual New Amsterdam Project Wikipedia The Wynkoop Family Research Library Associated web sites: The Descendants of Thomas Roote Merklee Family Research |
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