The Van Aken / Van Auken Association newsletter
(Microfiche)

Quarterly with index - Feb/May/Aug/Nov

Quarterly, published in Februrary, May, August, and November, with indexes published in December.

Vol. 1 no. 1 (Feb 1984) -

Editor: Ann C. Croston & co-editor, Glorya E. Welch. Contributing editor: Robert A. Van Auken.

Published: Columbia, Maryland; New Milford, Connecticut; Danbury, Connecticut.

Some pages were filmed horizontally, due to large paper size.

Not yet available in PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) at this time. (8 Feb. 2006).

Includes bibliographic references.

Each volume includes a name and place index, and a table of contents. A table of contents [called Index] of back issues is available on their web site.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Van Aken (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Belgium, Germany, and Holland. Some allied families came from Ireland and Scotland. Focus is on (but not limited to) descendants of Marinus Van Auken and his second wife, Pietternelle de Pre who were married at Cadzand, Holland in 1683. They immigrated to America ca. 1684, and settled in Ulster County, New York (then known as Esopus). Other Van Akens include Metjen Kuerlings and her husband, Hendrik Jensen (Janson) Van Aaken who settled in Germantown, Pennsylvania before 1755; John Van Aken who settled Ohio and westward; Anton Van Aken who came to America in 1911 from Garnderen, Holland; John Van Aken who immigrated from Holland in the early 1870's; Peter L. Vanocker (b. 1769) and his wife, Charlotte (b. 1777) who settled Cattaraugus County, New York; and John Vannocker (born ca. 1770) and his wife, Dorothea "Dolly" Sullivan of Riga, Genesee County, New York. Van Akens settled mainly in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and the Minisink area. In the 1700s, some settled in Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. During the 1800s, some moved to Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin. Many later descendants remained in the tri-state areas. Others live in Belgium, China, Dominican Republic, Holland, and in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington D.C., Wyoming, and elsewhere. Many wars with various American Indian tribes of the New Netherlands area are described.

Also available on microfiche.

Some text is in Dutch, with English translation.

Title varies: VA newsletter; Van Aken / Van Auken newsletter.

The Van Aken / Van Auken Family Association was organized ca. 1999. Its president is Ann C. Croston, who also has been editor of the newsletter since 1984. Their first All-Family (National) Reunion was held in Ulster County, New York, in August 1988. Membership is open to all Van Aken (and variant spellings) families. The Association publishes two periodicals simultaneously: "The Van Aken / Van Auken newsletter" which contains genealogical information, which began with vol. 1 no. 1 (February 1984), and the "Van Aken / Van Auken Association newsletter" which contains Association business, which began with vol. 1 (fall 1999). For table of contents, membership, and more information, see their Web site.