When I first heard of Wolfram|Alpha, in a news story, the search engine tool sounded pretty cool. And it is. For some reason I don’t recall, I found myself at the site and decided to experiment with various keywords to see what results were returned. There may have been a link to something in one [...]
Archive for the ‘VAN NOTE’ Category
Playing Around with Wolfram|Alpha
Posted: August 5, 2011 in BOAL, Databases, FROMKE, HAY, HILL, Iowa, LENTZ, Search Engines, South Dakota, VAN NOTETags: search engines, surnames
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‘The Mississippi River in American History’
Posted: May 18, 2011 in HILL, The Mexican War, United States, VAN NOTEA New York Times blog has some great material on the role of the Mississippi River in history. It’s designed for teachers, but anyone who has a slight interest in the subject will benefit. Understanding the Mississippi throughout the development of the United States is crucial to garnering a comprehensive knowledge of the nation’s history, [...]
As a man with some Dutch blood, I am happy to report some news on history, architecture, and New York City. It specifically relates to the Dutch founding of the city, including the battery, where hundreds of years later other branches of the family landed after emigrating. (During this time, the battery was known as [...]
New Amsterdam, renamed New York City in 1664, was incorporated today in 1653. (Nieuw Amsterdam is the original Dutch spelling.) In 1664, the city was surrendered to the English and renamed “New York” after the English Duke of York and Albany. At the end of the Second Anglo-Dutch War the Dutch gained control of Run Island (then a [...]
Family Name History
Posted: October 2, 2010 in BELOW, BOAL, CHITTY, CONNER, DARLING, DOTY, GEORGE, GOODELL, HAY, HILL, NEAL, NORTHROP, NORTHRUP, PARKER, RADDE, REYNOLDS, SHANNON, Surnames, TIDD, VAN NOTE, WALKERI came across a Family Name History feature at a site called nameLab, so I decided to lookup a few surnames. VAN NOTE Americanized spelling of Dutch Van (der) Not, a habitational name for someone from a place called Ter Noot, for example one in French Flanders. VAN OORT 1. Dutch: habitational name from any [...]
Ever since my interest in genealogy began in earnest at the end of the Reagan era, I’ve been fascinated by names. Relatives have had some peculiar ones such as Brazilla (a corruption of Barzillai) and Crooks, which is the middle name of great-great-great-great uncle, John C. Hill. (I discovered his middle name on General Land [...]
History, Genealogy & Genetics Mailing Lists
Posted: March 28, 2010 in FROMKE, Germany, HAY, Kreis Bütow, MILCZEWSKI, Pomerania, RADDE, VAN NOTEHere are some of the mailing lists that I manage. Most are related to genealogy and some about genetics. My mother’s family was named Fromke and was from Pomerania, an area south of the Baltic Sea. They came from Kreis (the German equivalent of a county) Bütow, which is now in Poland. Among the surnames [...]
