New projects around New Amsterdam...

Gedoen. For you I will kill the "BULL".
May you all there have a fantastic 2015. My e-mail still broken. Can't don anything before Jan 5..

thank you so much for the Baptisms in New Amsterdam....I found my 8th maternal grandparents and sibling....still looking at other connections. :)

Thanks for the encouragement! Of course, the great work on those lists was done by others, but it was certainly about time that we'd get these lists here on Geni and start doing something with it in an active fashion (on other sites, such lists remain just static, and on Geni we have the power to dynamically link it to the people and the families it concerns and share it with everyone else!).

http://www.genealogytrails.com/ny/albany/church_drcbaptisms_1686-90...

just found this and wanted to share

Thanks Patricia. I think this will be good for a next step. If we get a good grip on what happens in early New Amsterdam, it will make all the rest "easier" :-)

Do we have a project on the communities that the New Amsterdamers went on to found elsewhere? I didn't realize I had family from this area until I started working on a brickwall involving my ancestors from Monmouth County and from Cumberland County, New Jersey. As land opened up, many Dutch families moved to these regions. And from there went on to Ohio to the Miami Valley.

I love these kinds of discussions and you guys! I feel we are finally moving forward!

I also found that many of my New Amsterdam families started in NA, but then moved to upper state NY and lived in Kingston (many of them Dutch). I found a resource on the web for these, and then created a group that you are all invited to join: http://www.geni.com/projects/Old-Dutch-Church-of-Kingston-Baptismal...

Tim,
The same author who created our source for the NA project also has pages for Kingston

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rbillard/kingston_baptisms.htm

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rbillard/kingston_marriages...