Name changes

Can we guess or hypothesis how a name like Van Valkenburg morps into the name of Vollick?

If you follow me for a few moments you just might learn as I go along.

My ancestors  Isaac Van Valkenburg was born 1732 in Schoharie New York.  


Yet he died 1804 in Lincoln, Ontario.  

Please note the date birth 1732.  Why is this significant? 

 The Revolutiony War of 1776 makes it significant. All since Isaac is appx. 44 yrs. old he's from the area of New York.  The group known as the Butler Rangers, who became know as "Loyalist", were on the Crowns [England] side.  They fought against the Minute Men.  

By wars end they were not welcome in their hometowns any more.  England promised them land & provisions up in Canada.

So what does a man & his family do when offered land not only for him self but also for his children do?  He went!  Why stay where your neighbors really do not like you at all anymore?

So Isaac Van Valkenburg with other fellow Loyalist and their families left for the lands west of Black Rock New York over the Niagara River to Canada West.

So we still have not seen where the name morphing occured.  Here we go [personally I'm still scratching my head] /

Isaac had a wife and children that included:

• Married Anna Maria Warner              1735 – 1756

• Matthias VanValkenburg1759 – 1798
• Jan Vollick VanValkenburg1761 – 
• Cornelia VanValkenburg1761 – 1784
• Annetje VanValkenburg1763 – 1823
• Storm  ? Vollick1765 – 1841
• Sarah ?  Vollick1767 – 1809
• Sophia vanValkenburg1767 – 1804
• Catharina Van Valkenburg Vollick1769 – 1817
• Cornelius ? Vollick1774 – 1818

In my studing the data I summize that with the moving to Canada & being Loyalist that perhaps he further thought the name should be different.

What of the Van Valkenburgs that did not become Loyalist and stayed in New York.  Was all family ties broken with the War?

I know I may have frustrated some of you since I do not have a definitive answer as to why the name changed from Van Velkenburg to Vollick.  I am sorry.  Please relize in genealogy we the descendants cannot know their minds.

What theory might you have as to why names change???

New DNA Results Are In

 Image from web


So my dads results from the Ancestry.com special offer is in.  

Not what I expected but results of the past 300 years exciting.

So my Father's results are:

53% British Isles

23% Scandanavian

10% Western/Central Europe

4% unknown***

So when I consider all I now know about my Ancestors I can see it truer then I would have believed some time ago.

To me the most surprising is the 23% Scandinavian.  Now I readjusting how I see my self yet again. 

Now to further the research on the Brick Walls.

Bay City Tessier Brothers

                      A set of Fine Looking

          2nd Great Grandfather & Great Uncles

So which one are you descended from?

Mine is Prosper Tessier b. 1855, he married Katherine **King *VanDerhurk.

They had many children:

Christopher Tessier b. 1858

Henry Tessier b. 1863

Garden, Michigan Fishing Circa 1914

Garden Michigan Fishing Fun

Is one of your ancestors in this photo?

Bay City Spegiel Family Reunion Circa 1920

Irish DNA

Love Twitter and all the great information you can gain, without doing the searching.

DNA  Irish  DNA  English  DNA Scottish  DNA

check out this site: http://www.irishorigenes.com/
Its about pinpointing your heritage.

Good Luck  

Dutch Roots

I always knew that I had Dutch Ancestors.  But now they are coming out of the knooks & crannies.

Do you feel that way about recent ancestral discoveries?  I do.

So I already knew that I had at least one Dutch on my moms side.  Which is Idonia Rjicke.

Then finding out that my Great Granddad George Byron Putman also is most likely New York Dutch. 

New twist happened last night when I had decided to post the photos from my Spegiel & Tessier lines.
Since I like accuracy so much I had decided to look up Prosper Tessier census records.

I found out way more then I had imagined.  To me all the possible research had been done on the Tessier line by my cousin. So I had not considered that I could not possibly find out more.   However I know differently now.

They I am reading tru the list of Prosper, Katherine, childrens names.  Then who are these Van Derhurk?
What father-in-law, mother-in-law Frank & Julia Van DerHurk. Dutch???
Now we know Catherine's mothers name & her step father.  

 So Cool I finally find out. 

  

Who was Catherine Van Der Hurk & Prosper Tessier

Katherine Van DerHurk  & Prosper Tessier

Prosper Tessier is the son of Prosper Tessier & Marie Henrietta Charron DuCharme

Catherine is the daughter of Frank Van der Hurk & Julia ?.  
Saw* the 1900 USA census with them living with Prosper Tessier & Cathreine plus children & In Laws. on 2 Dec 2012.  First time that I saw it.

Who was Leon Spegiel & Julia Tessier

Leon Spegiel & Julia Tessier

Leon Spegiel is the son of Louis De Spegiel & Archange Meloche  [see previous post]

Julia Tessier is the daughter of Prosper Tessier & Catherine  *Van der hurk **King

*I just found a census record on FamilySearch last night which has in-las listed.

**King may be correct or incorrect, more research is in process.  Wanna know more contact me. 

Julia Tessier/Spegiel & Leon Spegiel 60th Wedding Anniversery Photo.  Bay City Michigan 

Is your name listed here?

Is your last name?

Ueberoth, Ufman, Vincen,  Uhlmann,  Uhlman, Ulbricht, Umberlain, Umphrey, Urdan, Urbin, Voss, Vosine, Vogel, Vogtmann, Volders, Voorhees, Vinquest, Virsing, Visneau, Vink, Mink, Winker, Visino, Visneau, Vinques, Verhoulst, Versinski, Veryeken, Viet, Vilade, Verellen, Verhooven, Vennix, Winnex, Verduyn, Vass, Vantrol, Vantol, Valendar, Vamender, Valender, Vallencourt, Vallendar, Vanderbilt, Vallie, Vallier, Valter, Valentine, Valure, Valay, Vanparis, Vanannhauld, Van Achten, Vanasee, Van Brocklin, Van Burskirk, Van Comber, Vanden, Vandenbossche, Vandendrook, Vanderhurk, Vandenhurk, Vanderhook, Vandenhook, Vanderboom, Vandermaile, Vanderplaise, Vanderwielen, Vanderwielen, Vander Weid, Vanderwial, Vantrol, Vantol, Vanoorchot, Vanogstraten, Vanmum, Vanmun, Van Ochten, Vanderk, Vanhurk, Vankerk, VanDyke, Vanusan, Vandewere, Vandusan, Van, Van Hoof, Vankerker, Vanmercour, Vanhaaren, Vanhaausen. Vanhamlin

Freel,  McDougall, McGunegle, Ward, Fisher, Cadillac,

Susannah Catherine Davison (nee Reeves),
 Leone Alma Bubeck nee Davison.

Flint,  Davison, Butcher,  Baker,  Candlestick,  Black, Przybyski, Randrup, Roubacher, Scott, Schavey, Sherman,

 Brown, Smith, Burton,  Potter,  Richfield,  Gore, Van Slyke,

Lippincott,  Atherton,  Williams, Miller,     Jones,  Saginaw,

Stoddard,  Newton,  Lewis,       Snow, Gold,  Silver, Tucker, Benz,  Carpenter,  

William Benjamin Carpenter

  Dummer, Newbury, Ragu, Spooner, Rinaldi, Water,

Vermeulen, Wager, Mullins, Noble, Millis, Dow, Culvert,  Wisdom,   
Tenniswood, Ross, Diehl 

 Mastick, Gill, Winston, Wallis,  Savage, Lambert, Weir, Welch,

Diamler,   Lock.   West,   East,  Night,   

 Bend,   Long,  Short, Hubbell, Wauker  

Holland, Spargo, Sylvester   Beaudet, Turney, Payne,

DuCap,  Verville,  Van der Speigel    Putman 

Amenzo & Randall Van Valkenburg during pre Civil War

    Van Valkenburg,  

Vollick, 

Hainer.    Cameron   Shaw   Hurford   Herfurd,  Herford , Sherwood
  Cataline,  Catline

Catlina,   McCall,   Mc Donnell,  Mc Donell,  Mc Cloud, McGuiness, Mac Donell, Lott, Perry, Slocum, Thatcher,

O’ Rourkem, Thurston,  Wilder, Cargil,   Caryll,   Handdock  Paddock, Babbitt, Babitt, Babit, Bobet,  Babiolette, Badour,   Baggaleagh   Bailey, McCracken,

Padock,  Kingsley, Ranger, Pertious,  Persy,  DeQuire,   Hubbell,  Morehouse,

Sherwood, Bryan, Wheeler, Achon,  Ackerley, Alby, Aide,   Allan, Allen, Lovell, Mayo, Millar, Miller, Misner, Mount,  Ockerman, Phillips, Powell, Priest, Shirlaw, Shoults, Smith, Sorenson, Spence, Standish, Stanford, Stanton, Steel, Stephens, Stevens, Sullivan, Sutton, Swarthout, Tapp, Tarbell, Temperance,  Thompson, Thomson, Treat, Trott, Van Allen, Van Vlack, Van Wagoner,  Walker, Wangsness, Webster, Weller, White, Sacs, 


 Jennie, Holecheck, Founce, Duff, Hildreth, Ellis, Edwards, Doty, Bump 

Edward Bumpass

, Snowman, Snow, Paine, Parker, Parks,

Ginty, Pierce, Pierson, Baldwin,  Ball, Bell, Ballard,   Baribeau, Kiltz,, Hopson, Gaylord, Cogswell, Camp

Barlett    Bassett,  Basett, Beauchamp, Hiltz, Rjicke  Tessier    Beaumont, Beauvais, Adams, Alden, Barlett, Beaman,

Bennett,  Berube,  Clark, McKellar, Hamilton, Poe, Kerr, 

Allan,  Alplin, Alpers, Babb, Babbitt, Baker, Banghart, Bayles, Beeman, Beutler, Biggs, Black,Blackmer, Bradley, Brink, Brinkerhoff, Brown, Bryan, Brzezinski, Buck, Buckingham, Buckley, Buck, Buckingham, Buckley, Burk, Camfield, Carpenter, Churchill, Clark, Cogswell, Coleman, Cooke, Cox, Cramer, Culbertson, Cummings, Cummins, Davidson, Deming, Denkhaus, Dickie, Dolph, Dunlop, Dyer, Easton, Engle, Estabrook, Flaws, Flummerfelt, Freelove, Goodrich, Goulding, Grimes, Gustafson,  Hayden, Hayes, Hollister, Holmes, Hope, Hopkins,Howk, Hutcheson, Hastings, Hutchenson, Jerusha, Kellie, Kelly, Kraus, Krausman, Lapman, Latimer, Lattimer, Linsley, Lizzie, Long, Loomis, Wilkinson, Wilkenson, Wilkensen, Willard, Wilson, Wolcott, Woolco, Woolworth, Woodeen, Wooden, Woodin, Young,

All photos from the web

Who was Leon Spegiel & Archange Meloche?

Who was Leon Spegiel & Archange Meloche?

First they are my 2^nd Great Grandparents.  They are the parents of Louis Spegiel.

They raised 9 children

Archange is a 2nd Great Granddaughter of the Famous German Michael Jacks/Yax

Leon is the son of Louis DeSpegiel & Idonia Rjicke, Brick Wall, nothing further is known.

Archange was from the larger Detroit Area. Leon was a  immigrant.

They moved to the Bay City area.

List for any one doing Family History/Genealogy

I found this great list on a blog I have added to it so its more then 99.

see how much you have done and still want to do or now you have a new idea cause of this list.

to see original : http://www.toniasroots.net/2011/09/09/99-genealogy-things

A Genealogy Have you done theses Things List:

Belong to a genealogical society

Joined a group on Genealogy Wise.

Transcribed records.

Uploaded headstone pictures to Find-A-Grave or a similar site.

Documented ancestors for four generations (self, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents)

Joined Facebook.

Joined Twitter

Cleaned up a run-down cemetery.

Joined the Genea-Bloggers Group.

Attended a genealogy conference.

Lectured at a genealogy conference.

Spoke on a genealogy topic at a local genealogy society/local library’s family history group. Not

 Joined the National Genealogical Society.

Contributed to a genealogy society publication.

Served on the board or as an officer of a genealogy society.

Got lost on the way to a cemetery.

Talked to dead ancestors.

Researched outside the state in which I live.

Knocked on the door of an ancestral home and visited with the current occupants.

Have you received a Cold Call from a relative, relating to to your post from your Blog or ebsite?

Cold called a distant relative.

Posted messages on a surname message board.

Uploaded a gedcom file to the internet.

Googled my name (and those of ancestors – it turns up great info sometimes)

Performed a random act of genealogical kindness.

Researched a non-related family, just for the fun of it.

Have been paid to do genealogical research.

Earn a living (majority of income) from genealogical research.

Wrote a letter (or email) to a previously unknown relative.

Contributed to one of the genealogy carnivals.

Responded to messages on a message board.

Was injured while on a genealogy excursion.

Participated in a genealogy meme.

Created family history gift items.

Performed a record lookup.

Took a genealogy seminar cruise.

Am convinced that a relative must have arrived here from outer space.

Found a disturbing family secret.

Told others about a disturbing family secret (but not all of the secrets).

Combined genealogy with crafts (family picture quilt, scrapbooking).

Think genealogy is a passion and/or obsession not a hobby.

Assisted finding next of kin for a deceased person.

Taught someone else how to find their roots.

Lost valuable genealogy data due to a computer crash or hard drive failure.

Been overwhelmed by available genealogy technology.

Know a cousin of the 4th degree or higher.

Disproved a family myth through research.

Got a family member to let you copy photos.

Used a digital camera to “copy” photos or records.

Translated a record from a foreign language.

Found an immigrant ancestor’s passenger arrival record.

Looked at census records on microfilm, not on the computer.

Used microfiche.

Visited the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.

 Used Google+ for genealogy.

Visited a church or place of worship of one of your ancestors.

Taught a class in genealogy.

Traced ancestors back to the 18th Century.

Traced ancestors back to the 17th Century.

Traced ancestors back to the 16th Century.

Can name all of your great-great-grandparents.

Know how to determine a soundex code without the help of a computer.

 Have found many relevant and unexpected articles on internet to “put flesh on the bones”.

 Own a copy of Evidence Explained by Elizabeth Shown Mills.

Helped someone find an ancestor using records you had never used for your own research.

Visited the main National Archives building in Washington, DC.

Have an ancestor who came to America as an indentured servant. –

Have an ancestor who fought in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812 or Civil War.

Taken a photograph of an ancestor’s tombstone. 

Can “read” a church record in Latin.

Have an ancestor who changed his/her name, just enough to be confusing.

Joined a Rootsweb e-mail list.

Created a family website.

 Have a genealogy blog.     

Was overwhelmed by the amount of family information received from someone.

Have broken through at least one brick wall.

Done genealogy research at a court house.

Borrowed microfilm from the Family History Library through a local Family History Center(s).

Found an ancestor in an online newspaper archive.

Have visited a "DAR/SAR" branch.

Visited a "Loyalist" Branch.

Have an ancestor who served in WWI or WWII.

 Use maps in my genealogy research.

Blog to help find leads in A Brick Wall

Have a blacksheep ancestor.

Found a bigamist amongst my ancestors.

Attended a genealogical institute.

Taken online genealogy (and local history) courses.

Consistently (document) and cite my sources.

Blogged about your genealogy experiences.

Visited a foreign country (i.e. one I don’t live in) in search of ancestors. 

 Can locate any document in my research files within a few minutes.

Have an ancestor who was married four times.  

Made a rubbing of an ancestor’s gravestone.
(not recommended in some old cemeteries)

Followed genealogists on Twitter.

Published a family history book. –

 
Learned of a death of a fairly close family relative through research.

Offended a family member with my research.

Reunited someone with precious family photos or artifacts.

Have a paid subscription to a genealogy database.

Submitted articles for FamilySearch Wiki.

Organized a family reunion..

Help someone else create a Family Blog.

Used Archives in countries where my ancestors originated. 

Converted someone new to the love of all things genealogy.