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Austin Returns with a Multi-Generational Historical Novel Geesje de Jonge crossed the ocean at age seventeen with her parents and a small group of immigrants from the Netherlands to settle in the Michigan wilderness. Fifty years later, in 1897, she's asked to write a memoir of her early experiences as the town celebrates its anniversary. Reluctant at first, she soon uncovers memories and emotions hidden all these years, including the story of her one true love. At the nearby Hotel Ottawa Resort on the shore of Lake Michigan, twenty-three-year-old Anna Nicholson is trying to ease the pain of a broken engagement to a wealthy Chicago banker. But her time of introspection is disturbed after a violent storm aboard a steamship stirs up memories of a childhood nightmare. As more memories and dreams surface, Anna begins to question who she is and whether she wants to return to her wealthy life in Chicago. When she befriends a young seminary student who is working at the hotel for the summer, she finds herself asking him all the questions that have been troubling her. Neither Geesje nor Anna, who are different in every possible way, can foresee the life-altering surprises awaiting them before the summer ends.
Martina Christina van Ritbergen (b. 1930) in Amsterdam, North Holland, the Netherlands, daughter of Hermanus Kasper van Ritbergen and Christina Hendrika Vree. Martina married Robby Benjamin van der Ley in 1953. They immigrated to the United States from Indonesia. Martina's ancestors are traced back to the great-grandparents and descendants are included. Relatives lived in the Netherlands, Indonesia, the United States and elsewhere.
Jacob Luurszen (b.1616) immigrated from Holland to New Netherland, New York, and married Stijntje Douwes. Luur Jacobsen, their American born son, adopted a surname of "van Kuykendaal." Through his six sons, Luur became the common ancestor of most present-day Kuykendalls (including variant spellings). Earlier research has chiefly focussed on the elder sons of Luur who moved to Pennsylvania, Virginia and to the southwest. Little has been documented about the descendants and relatives of Luur's last son, Pieter van Kuykendaal, who remained in New York. Vol. 1 deals with the early Dutch ancestors in New York and Pennsylvania of Theodore Kuykendall (1860-1945), grandfather of the author, and a direct descendant in the thirteenth generation of immigrant Jacob Luurszen. Vol. 2 has some additional genealogy for this ancestry of Theodore, but chiefly deals with other descendants of Pieter van Kuykendaal. The Cuykendall and Coykendall branches are not complete, and " ... are intended to encourage others of those families to complete that research"--Foreword to v. 2. Descendants and relatives of Pieter lived in New York, New England, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota and elsewhere.
With Genealogy as Found in Early Dutch Church Records, State and Government Documents, Together with Sketches of Colonial Times, Old Log Cabin Days, Indian Wars, Pioneer Hardships, Social Customs, Dress and Mode of Living of the Early Forefathers