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New Netherland Settlers: Willem Pieterse Van Slyke aka Neef- A genealogy to five generations of the descendants of Willem Pieterse Van Slyke who settled in New Netherland (New York) in 1660 by Lorine McGinnis Schulze.
New Netherland Settlers: Willem Pieterse Van Slyke aka Neef - A genealogy to five generations of the descendants of Willem Pieterse Van Slyke who settled in New Netherland (New York) in 1660 is my second book on the Van Slyke family. As of February 2005 it is available for sale. Review in the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record July 2005

The Van Slyke Family in America: A Genealogy of Cornelis Antonissen Van Slyke, 1604-1676 and his Mohawk Wife Ots-Toch, including the story of Jacques Hertel, 1603-1651, Father of Ots-Toch and Interpreter to Samuel de Champlain by Lorine McGinnis Schulze. Reviewed in the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record 1996

New Netherland Settlers: The Stevensen and Jacobsen Familes: A Genealogy to three generations of the descendants of Steven Janse Coning and Maria Goosens who settled in Fort Orange in 1649 (Stevensen Family) and Maria Goosens and a man named Jacob (Jacobsen Family) by Lorine McGinnis Schulze [Note: needs someone to help me with indexing!]

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The European Origins of Steven Janse Coning by Lorine McGinnis Schulze, published in December 2001, Vol. 6 No. 4 of New Netherland Connections. An excerpt from the book in a planned series, New Netherland Settlers: The Stevensen and Jacobsen Familes: A Genealogy to three generations of the descendants of Steven Janse Coning and Maria Goosens who settled in Fort Orange in 1649 (Stevensen Family) and Maria Goosens and a man named Jacob (Jacobsen Family) by Lorine McGinnis Schulze

Origins of the Pier Family in the Netherlands and an Update of their Connection to the Ostrander Family by Lorine McGinnis Schulze and Chris Brooks on pages 163-182 in the July 2000 issue of The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record

The European Origins of the Boelen Family: Boele Roeloffson and His Wife Bayken Arents in Amsterdam by Lorine McGinnis Schulze in the April 2000 issue of The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record

Lambert Van Valkenburg: His Life in the New World as Revealed in Court Documents and Other Primary Source Records From 1644 - 1664 by Lorine McGinnis Schulze in The National Association of the Van Valkenburg Family of America serialized beginning in the Fall of 1999

Jan Corneliszen Damen in the New World by Lorine McGinnis Schulze, published on pages 47-56 of Volume 4, number 2 (May 1999) of New Netherland Connections. It is an account of the 13 children of Jan Corneliszen Damen and Sophia Marten, to the 3rd generation (grandchildren of Jan and Sophia)

Dutch Patronymics of the 1600s by Lorine McGinnis Schulze, in Gombert Newsletter Vol. 2 Number 2 October 1997

Cornelis Antonissen Van Slyke uit Breukelen en zijn Mohawk vrouw Ots-Toch [Cornelis Antonissen Van Slyke from Breuckelen and his Mohawk wife, Ots-Toch] by Lorine McGinnis Schulze, in Tijdschrift Historische Kring Breukelen Jaargang 12, Nummer 1, Maart 1997. Translated from English to Dutch by Max Schulte

Irish Palatine Story on Internet by Lorine McGinnis Schulze, in Irish Palatine Association Journal Nov. 7 December 1996

Dutch Patronymics of the 1600s Gombert Newsletter Vol. 2 Number 2 (October 1997)

The Mystery of the Ontario Peers: A Story of Success on the Internet Ontario Genealogical Society Hamilton Branch Newsletter, Volume 29 Number 2 (May 1998)

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