Ancestral Lines - America to Europe

Preachers - Farmers - Soldiers

These are my Ancestral lines and research. I'm open to a discussion of the facts and my conclusions. In fact a good bit of my research was devoted to proving some of the most popular/glamorous lines were based on fraudulent research and are not included.

A number of these(my) lines have been registered by me with the Mayflower Society, the Swedish Colonial Society, and the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (NSSAR), other lines have been submitted and are pending final approval. I mention this not to toot a horn, but to say my research in many cases has been validated by impartial evaluators who look for evidence.

That said, what I'm sharing is not a regurgitation of internet garbage or a rehash of GEDCOMs and Ancestry.com WFT files, nor is it a simple recitation of various published genealogies. I will make reference to them, but have independently verified the records I cite, and my conclusions may differ from what was published. Nor am I going to simply repeat what someone else, told someone else.

If you copy one of my pages wholesale, make a note of where it came from, and when (the information is likely to change) and while a public record cannot be copyrighted, my research is.

Further information and my email address are located at:
World Connect. Rootsweb.com - A link to that page is posted below.

Family Photos

• Conradt Swart, lot 518 (106 KB)
  1787, Wm Cockburn survey of the West Manor of Van Resselaer. Conradt Swart, lot 518, 170 acres, two buildings on the banks of the Switzkill Creek
• Coenradt Swart, lease 1774, at Beaver Dam (76 KB)
  VanRensselaer Manor Papers, Manuscripts and Special Collections, NY State Library, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY
• Wedding Photo, W.K. Umbel and Ada Rush (27 KB)
  Wedding Photo, 1901, WK Umbel and bride, Ada Rush. Minister D.A. Friend (Marriage license, Garrett Co, (MD) Courthouse, Marr., Bk 3)
• Chas.Brown, Franklin Twp (83 KB)
  Hopkins, G.M. "Atlas of the County of Fayette and the State of Pennsylvania." Philadelphia, PA: G.M. Hopkins, 1872. Buena Vista Dist., Franklin Twp
• Wedding Certificate, J.C. Forsythe and Nannie Youn (65 KB)
  Original wedding Certificate
• L-R: ('t Hart Family?) Anna, Jacoba, Jacob, Cornel (41 KB)
  Probably taken ca. 1896, Holland
• S.Strickler, Perry Twp (73 KB)
  Hopkins, G.M. "Atlas of the County of Fayette and the State of Pennsylvania." Philadelphia, PA: G.M. Hopkins, 1872. Perry Twp
• Brown Family - 1909 (71 KB)
  Browne Family Reunion -1909- Flatwoods, PA
• Henrich Junghen (1717-87), family record, Keller's (199 KB)
  Family records from Keller's Lutheran Church, showing all nine children of Henrich Junghen's (Younkin) and his wife Catharina Schere, b. 1736
• J.H. Younkin, Civil War, Co C, 29th Regt, PA Vol. (27 KB)
  Hall & Gray Photographers, Brookville, PA
• Younkin Sisters, ca. 1883 (35 KB)
  Youkin Sisters; L-R, Cora, Emma, Minnie, Nancy. ca. 1883.

Related Links

• My Family Records on Rootsweb.com
• My Virtual Cemetery at Find-a-Grave
• Pierre Jean DuPont, the Facts, the Fiction and the truth