Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Dyckman (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from the Netherlands. Focus is on (but not limited to) the descendants of Johannes Dyckman, who immigrated to New Amsterdam in 1651. He settled in Albany, New York, and served as clerk and commissary at Fort Orange (Albany, New York) until 1655. His second wife, Maria Bosyns, bore him two sons, Cornelis and Johannes. In...

Newsletter for the collection and interchange of genealogical data and family history about Snead-Sneed-Sneyde individuals and families within the United States. Includes transcripts and extracts from local, county, state and federal sources (city directories, vital records, land and property, probate, census, etc.).

Jacob Hochstetler (1704-1776), an Amish Mennonite, immigrated (probably from Switzerland, but possibly from the Palatinate of Germany) via Rotterdam to Philadelphia in 1736. He settled in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, married Miss Lorentz, and moved in 1757 to Berks County, Pennsylvania. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland,Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Washington, Arizona, California, Oregon,...

George W. Rinks/Rinck/Rincs, born in Tennessee about 1820, died in the Civil War in 1863 in Arkansas. He married twice, had four children by the first wife and five by the second. Descendants lived in Tennessee, Missouri, Texas, Kansas, Virginia, Arkansas and elsewhere.

Jorg Beihofer (ca. 1620-ca. 1655) is believed to have been born in the Tyrol and died at Bilfingen, Baden. He and his wife, Barbara, had three children, ca. 1640-1654. Descendants listed lived in Germany, the United States and elsewhere. Many, especially of the earlier generations lived in Bilfingen. The surname is spelled Beihofer, Beihoffer and Byhoffer and other variant spellings. A descendant of the seventh generation, Theodor Beihofer (1811-1896)...

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Bingham descendants of James Bingham of Kilmore Parish, County Down, Northern Ireland (Ulster). James was born in 1732 to Thomas Bingham and Elizabeth Hay. In 1753, he married Ann Cleland of Kilmore. Four of their children, William, Robert, Mary (Shaw) and Thomas Bingham left Northern Ireland to settle in North Carolina ca. 1785. Rev. William Bingham (1754-1826) became a Presbyterian...

"Abraham Madsen, with his wife, Ingeborg Thorsdatter, and children...left Norway for this country [America] in 1861 [eventually] settling in French Creek, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin., in what came to be known as Abrahams Coulee, named for the above."--P. 17 They first settled in Coon Valley, Vernon County, Wisconsin, where they lived about two years after arriving from Sondre Land, Norway. In 1863 they moved to Trempealeau County. Abraham Madsen...

James Draper (1622-1694) married Miriam Stansfield in 1646, and about 1647 immigrated from England to Roxbury, Massachusetts. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Colorado and elsewhere.

William Headington was born ca. 1740. He married Elizabeth Elisha Bosley. He died in 1782 in Baltimore, Maryland. His son, Nathan (ca. 1775-1832), was born in Baltimore County, Maryland. He married Keziah Gorsuch in 1794 in Maryland and later died in Knox County, Ohio. Descendants lived in Ohio, Iowa, Illinois, California, Minnesota, Michigan, British Columbia and elsewhere.

Frederick Keller (1757-1847) served in the Revolutionary War, married Elizabeth Peter in 1783 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and later moved to Mifflin (now Juniata) County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Texas and and elsewhere.