Greetings to all my VAN WAGENEN, VAN WAGONER, VAN WAGNER, and VAN WAGNEN relatives, even those who have managed to spell your name incorrectly for the past two-hundred years. I will be making periodic changes as research demands and I invite you to return every now and then to see what’s happening, and to perhaps make a comment or two about the content of my website. There’s an email link at the bottom of this page and I urge you to drop me a note.
Do you have a grandfather or grandmother who is still living and is able to speak about his childhood and growing-up years? Are your own parents reaching the age where you must consider the fact that they won’t be with you forever?
Take some advice from me and purchase a tape and/or a video recorder. Sit down with your family member and spend a few hours while you ask them about what their life was like as they were growing up. Ask about their earliest childhood memories, what they remember about their mother and father and what kind of work they did. Ask about what school was like; what their teenage years were like; what they did at work and at play; ask them exactly where they lived, and ask if that house still stands. A0sk them where their parents or grandparents are buried; etc.
Check out this attached video and learn about your Dutch ancestors and their New Netherlands history.
SOJOURNER TRUTH: Isaac D. Van Wagenen was born 10/11/1796 and died 10/15/1867. He married Maria Schoonmaker, born 10/20/1800, the daughter of Johannis S. Schoonmaker and Maria Markle. They are buried in the Van Wagenen Cemetery at St. Remy, New York (near Kingston). About 1797 Sojourner Truth was born a slave named Isabelle Hardenburgh at the home of Col. Johannis Hardenburgh in Swartkill, near Rifton, in what is now the Town of Esopus. She was freed in 1827 and became an ardent abolitionist, a preacher, a temperance leader and woman’s rights advocate.
THE VAN WAGENEN LIBRARY AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT COBLESKILL, SCHOHARIE COUNTY, NEW YORK:
JARED VAN WAGENEN was born on May 14, 1871 at the family homestead at Lawyersville, and died on March 25, 1960 at home. On December 31, 1896 at Cobleskill he married Magdalena Eliza Lamont who was born on April 9, 1874 at Cobleskill and died on December 14, 1965 at Lawyersville. They are both buried in the Cobleskill Cemetery. Jared was a reknowned agriculturist, author, and radio commentator for many years on radio station WGY in Schenectady. He wrote a definitive study on life in the 1800′s which he entitled “The Golden Years of Homespun”.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly, elected on November 4, 1919 as a democratic candidate from Schoharie County.
The genealogical lineage of Jared Van Wagenen is found in my yet-to-be published book entitled “Gerrit Aertsen Van Wagenen of Wageningen, Holland”. Additional information about Jared Van Wagenen may be found by contacting me at Cvanwagenen@hvc.rr.com
NOTE 2008: I HAVE THIS ENTIRE FAMILY LINE ON MY COMPUTER AND WILL FORWARD IT VIA EMAIL TO ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO HAVE IT. NO CHARGE. SHARING MY 30 YEARS OF RESEARCH IS WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT. CARL
I had originally planned to re-publish the genealogy of John Halmagh Van Wagenen. Over the past 28 years I have accumulated a great deal of information about these families, many of whom followed the Mormon movement to Utah.
THE FOLLOWING ARE FROM THE “GERRIT VAN WAGENEN GENEALOGY”
