i am looking for history and genealogy on Luur Jacobszen van Kuykendaal. Can anyone help me with this?
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THIS HAS NOT BEEN PROOFREAD, so treat the information as such. If you do see any errors, just correct them. \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nCHAPTER VII....................34\n\n \n\nOTHER NOTES CONNECTED WITH THE VERY EARLY KUYKENDALLS\n\n \n\nWe have seen that our first ancestor born in this country was baptized in the Dutch Reformed Church of New York City. Before going on with a fuller account of the Kuykendalls mentioned in the records by generations that have gone before, a few words in regard to the history of this first church of America, where was baptized the first Kuykendall of America, will be interesting to our people. This interest grows out of the fact of the relation it bore to the beginning of our family history in this country.\nThis church of New Amsterdam, now New York, was organ-ized in the year 1628, and has continued to this day, and is now the wealthy Collegiate Church of New York City, and has ten buildings and fourteen ministers. It was founded and organized by Rev. Jonas Michaelus. The church building in which our first American born Kuykendall was baptized was a stone structure erected in the summer of 1642, and therefore was at the time of his baptism a new building. The pulpit and bell were made in Holland and shipped over to New York.\nIt was not the custom at that time to enter the name of the mothers, when children were baptized, and hence w~ do not see in this record the name of the mother of our first ancestor of American birth. This is unfortunate, as we are left without a knowledge of the early history of the first ancestor's mother, and family.\nIt is elsewhere explained that the patronymic, or father name of our first ancestor was Luur or Luer, or some modification of that name and that among the first baptisms of his children, the name Van Kuykendaal did not appear.\nAs stated he lived in Celderland, Holland, in the vicinity of Wageningen. He and Urbanus Luursen probably came to this country together in the employ of the Dutch West India Company. The affairs of that company were at that time under the supervision of Killiaen Van Rensselaer, who was a wealthy dealer in diamonds and pearls in Holland. This man purchased a large tract of land on the Hudson river and sent over a lot of Holland people,-farmers, mechanics and artisans, to develop the lands.\nJacob and Urbanus were undoubtedly brothers, and it would seem, from the evidence of the old records, that they came over to New Amsterdam about the winter of 1646. Probably both were mechanics, the records say that Urbanus was a mason. We do not know whether Jacob was married before leaving Holland or not.\nHe went to Fort Orange soon after arriving in America, and may have been in the employ of the company up to the time of his death. He must have died in 1656. He had a grant from the Lord Director General and Council for a lot for building purposes, dated October 25, 1653.\n\n  \n\nBEGINNING OF THE FAMILY KUYKENDALL .............................35\n\n\nOn this lot he had a home and little garden. Owing to the fact that the name of his wife does not appear anywhere in the records, we are unable to follow her later history as we should like.\nThere is little room to doubt that Leur grew up from early youth in the Esopus country, (the region about Kingston), and, as he married there and lived there, it is most likely that his mother, after the death of his father, moved from Fort Orange to Rochester, (now Accord), soon after she was left a widow.\nAt about the age of thirty, he married, in the year 1680, at Kingston, the daughter of a Hollander who lived in Esopus, her name being Grietje Tack, daughter of Aert Pietersen Tack and Annetje Ariens. The Tack family came from Holland at a very early day and settled at Esopus. Some of the family descendants lived there several generations.\nThere is today, at Stone Ridge, a little town of New York, about ten miles out from Kingston2 an ol
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I don't know about that,but here in the US they have a great geneology site: familysearch.org  They also have places to research your  family history.
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How about trying to do a search in family trees, or just try typing the name in quotes in a search like "nevins" or "Norma nevins" is any one has done a family tree with that name you will find it.
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I'm not sure since this is new to me but this might be what you are looking for:\nhttp://vantelpearls.com/
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Yahoo Answers has a Genealogy category under "Arts & Humanities". Half of the questions there are inane. Most of the rest are either "What is the meaning of the {xyz} surname?" or "How do I find my family tree?".\n\nYou can't find your family tree without spending a month or two at it, unless you get REAL lucky. (For instance, an aunt has spent 30 years at it and has you in her tree.)\n\nYahoo! itself doesn't have any genealogy data.\n\nThe resolved Q in the Genealogy category have some links that will get you started, if you are still interested.
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The links listed above are good but are pay services, as well as geneology.com. However, if you have all your info ready you can sign up for a 2 week free trial and get most all of your work done in that time...especially since you are not going back that far.\n\nI traced my fathers side back to the late 15th century this way. Real neat stuff but also very addictive so be careful. Also easy to get lead in a bad direction so double and triple check all your results before moving to the next generation.\n\nAlso, a decent free site is www.rootsweb.com. \n\nNewsgroups are an excellent resource as well but too complicated to explain here. Feel free to email me if you need help getting started.
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Go to a family tree geneology site.
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The Archives Bookshop has a web site:\nhttp://www.archivesbookshop.com/\nwhich includes address and phone number.
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I would suggest you go to a site called Ancestry.com and search there. I haven't been there in a long time but I know they have lots of information. You will probably have to sign up to search. Good Luck....Patty
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Contact the local newspaper.  They'll get you a copy for a small fee.  Pretty easy to do.  You might be able to do it online.  I found my grandfathers that way.
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Try the holland white pages
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Try going to the Morman Church. They have birth records going back hundreds of years.
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You can go to the Family History Center in your area.  Family Historians would gladly help out. Check this out by going to your telephone directory and call up The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They have the largest genealogical data in the world today.  Looking for your great-great grand relatives is inexpensive.\n\nGo the website: http://www.mormon.org/ for more information
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You may be able  to do a search here:\n\nhttp://www.ancestry.com/learn/contentcenters/contentCenter.aspx?page=military&o_xid=21838&o_lid=21838
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Genealogy.com would be a good place to start. If you have a local historical/genealogical society, check with them.
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http://www.genealogical.com/
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There's a chance you can find them through www.Ancestry.com , You'd have to pay for it.  There is also a chance, depending on where and when they were born and died that you can obtain them through the town hall in the city where they were born.