Including Albany, Dutchess, and Ulster Counties
Dedicated to my grandmothers
Dorothy Emily (Van Kleeck) Smith
and
Dorothy (Simmons) Triebel
without whom none of this would have been possible.
by Roxy Triebel
treebz65@hotmail.com
Yours truly in 1967 practicing to add to the family photo collection
(Dress by my great-aunt Elta (Van Kleeck) Rifenburg Daly - see the Van Kleeck section)
Me in May 2002 at Bushkill Cemetery in Ulster County, NY with my great great great great grandpa, Andrew Avery / Every. Click to see a larger photo.
This is an article that ran on our local news channel in December of 2007. DNA testing can be helpful, but don't expect miracles.
PLEASE NOTE that while I welcome photo and other file submissions, large files will quickly block up my Hotmail account. Please send all files to my other address at treebz65@aol.com. I am looking into possibly upgrading to the pay version of Hotmail, which will fix this space limitation, but until I do, please send file attachments to the above AOL address.
PLEASE PARDON MY DUST! -- I am in the process of rearranging the website to try and get some of the information better organized. Please let me know if I have any broken links that need fixing. To anybody who has written me in the past couple of months - I have your letters and will do my best to try to get back to you as soon as possible. Thanks in advance for your patience and understanding.
About This Website - information about what's on this page, what I hope to eventually include, how to submit photos/information of your own, etc. This page probably needs to be updated since my site is no longer just for old photographs.
AOL USERS please see my page on Notes for AOL Users, especially if web graphics always look blurry or distorted on your system OR if you only get .ART files when you try to save a graphic.
The photos on this web site are what is known as "progressive jpeg" - they load first at low-resolution and then at progressively higher resolutions, so if you're using Netscape or another browser that supports progressive jpegs, they will look a bit blurry and distorted at first and then gradually clear up. If you wait for the images to load completely, they should be quite sharp. Microsoft's browsers do not support this feature, so users of Internet Explorer or any other browser that doesn't use progressive jpegs will have to wait for the entire image to load before they can see it.
Click on thumbnails to see larger copies of photos or go to pages with additional information (obituaries, newspaper articles, etc.). I have tried to indicate which thumbnails lead to information pages and which lead only to larger images. Please note that some of the full-sized photos are quite large and may take some time to load on slow connections.
This website was originally intended to be primarily a place to display old family photos of ancestors that my family is lucky enough to have. I had intended only to put photos on a fairly basic descendant tree to show how these people were related. Then I decided to add a few cemetery photos to individuals for whom I had no personal photos. I kept finding so much stuff to add to my "photo album" that it is turning itself into a genealogy site in spite of my original plans. ;-)
Much of the information on the people represented on this web site comes from personal recollections of my parents' and grandparents' generations. I have also received some very generous contributions of information and photographs from descendants in other lines of my families. My family moved out of New York state in the 1970s, so I don't have easy access to research information (the internet databases help, but are no substitute for being there). If you have corrected or additional information for any of these folks, please e-mail me or leave a message in the guestbook.
I have been moving some of these sections around recently to try to better organize them, and it's possible that I have forgotten to update some of the new links. If you find a broken link on one of these pages, please let me know about it so I can fix it as soon as possible. I have also tried to go back and put all of the people in my direct ancestry in bold type, although it is possible that I may have missed a few of these.
Most of the information that I have on my grandmother's lines of the family comes from her book, "Tangled Roots and Twisted Branches", which I am copying onto the web. Surnames in this book include:
- AVERY / EVERY
- BARRINGER (and variant spellings)
- BLANCHAN
- BURHANS
- HILL
- KERR
- LEGG
- MINKLER
- MYERS
- OSTERHOUT / OSTERHOUDT (and variant spellings)
- PELS
- PLOEG
- SCHEPMOES
- TRAPHAGEN
- VAN KEUREN
- VAN KLEECK (and variant spellings)
- VAN WAGENEN
- WHITAKER, etc.
Most of these family lines lived in and around Ulster and Dutchess Counties in New York state.
My grandfather's family is below. Since both his parents were named SMITH, we haven't made much headway on his family yet.
descendants of Lorenzo SMITH (1853-1914 or 1915) and Abigail HORTON (1852-1923). This family moved around an awful lot - most of the current entries are buried in and around Ulster County, although in life they may have resided in various locations on both sides of the Hudson River.
includes ANDERSON / ANDERSEN, AYRES, COUTANT, ENDEKAS, HORTON, MATTHEWS, QUICK, SEAMAN, WILLIAMS, etc.
I have a page in the SMITH section for my grandfather's photos of his worksites. He was a crane and shovel operator in the northeastern states from about the late 1920s or early 1930s and we have over fifty of these photos.
Almost all of what I have on the earlier members (further back than my great-grandparents) of these branches of the family comes from the large collection of newspaper clippings made by my great-grandmother Elma (BOWMAN) SIMMONS and a very few transcriptions of family Bible entries (I have, unfortunately, never seen the actual Bibles - don't know which cousins would have these now). I personally have very little information outside of a few obituaries and family photographs, but I am beginning to find more online now. I would appreciate hearing anything that you may have to add about these people.
- My Grandparents - William Franklin Triebel and Dorothy (Simmons) Triebel.
- Elma (Bowman) Simmons' collection of obituary and other newspaper clippings (not necessarily relatives).
- Photos of Red Hook, Dutchess County, New York, taken in 1949 and generously contributed by a correspondent.
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BOWMAN / BOWERMAN of Dutchess County, NY.
Descendants of Maltiah / Meletiah BOWERMAN (ca. 1765 - 1823) and his wife Rhoba / Rhoda / Reba ARNOLD (ca. 1777 - 1871). Members of this line intermarried with my SIMMONS and MILROY lines.
Includes BARTON, HICKS, MOORE, THORNE, WIREHOUSE, etc., - HEERMANS / HEERMANCE / HERMANCE / HERMANS of Dutchess County, NY.
Descendants of Richard HERMANS (1808 - 1898) and his first two wives: half-sisters Catharine ROCKEFELLER (1810 - 1846) and Emeline SHEAR (1820 - 1857). Members of this family married into my SIMMONS line.
Includes BUNNELL, STARK, etc. - MILROY / MILROYS / MILLROY came from Scotland to Brooklyn, NY to Dutchess County, NY.
Descendants of Robert MILROY (1812 - 1896) and Mary CARMICHAEL (1818 - 1909).
Members of this family intermarried with my BOWMAN line. There are many descendants of this MILROY family still living in Dutchess County.
Includes ASHER, CARMICHAEL (and variant spellings), CASEY, DOYLE, FRIDAY (and variant spellings), STALEY, STICKEL, etc. - SIMMONS
Descendants of William P. SIMMONS (ca. 1799 - 1871) and Catharine CLUM (ca. 1804 - 1865).
Members of this family intermarried with my BOWMAN and HERMANS lines.
Includes CLUM, HERRICK, KILMER / KILLMER, WRIGHT, etc. - TRIEBEL came from Germany to Albany County, NY to Dutchess County, NY
descendants of William TRIEBEL (1817-1889) and Phebe CRANSON (1827-1904)
includes CRANSON, FAYARD / FOLYARD, FERO, RIFENBURG / RIFENBURGH, etc.I have a page on Triebel's Garage, founded by my great grandfather in 1917 and still in operation in Red Hook, New York. A correspondent has contributed some additional photos of Red Hook that he took in 1949 for a 2nd grade school project.
I now have some information on lines related to my TRIEBELs that include the names FLECK, HESS, SCHNEIDER, STEINWAY, WACHTEL, etc. All of this information was generously contributed by others, so if you see any information that needs correcting, please let me know.
I have made some basic charts using templates found at http://www.ida.net/users/elaine/pedigre2.HTM. These only go back seven generations and have very basic information in them. I am still in the process of verifying sources, etc., but I have uploaded a rather messy GEDCOM file to WorldConnect if only to back it up somewhere safe. Feel free to email me with corrections, additions, questions, etc., but be aware that I'm only just starting to get involved in this stuff and may not have much more information than you do. Happy hunting!
- Clicking on an individual's name will take you to a family group sheet (several of the family group sheets have small portrait photos attached).
- Clicking on the number to the right of a name (only available with names down the right side of chart #1) will take you to a pedigree chart for that individual.
- Clicking on the name of person #1's spouse in a pedigree chart will take you to the spouse's pedigree chart.
- Clicking on the name of an "other spouse" in a family group sheet will take you to the family group sheet which includes that spouse.
See My Pedigree Charts
or
See also my Worldconnect database for unrelated individuals (treebz65other). These are people found mostly in obituary clippings kept by my great grandmother and etc. that I do not seem to be related to. I most probably DO NOT have further information on these people.
This section currently contains photos of cemeteries in the areas in New York that my families are from, although I may eventually be able to add some cemeteries in my local area as well. Some of these were taken by myself or my family. Others have been generously contributed by correspondents. PLEASE NOTE: Except for Laurel Cemetery in Ulster County, New York and Bratton Cemetery in Travis County, Texas, these are NOT complete surveys of the cemeteries in question - the photos are mostly stones of immediate relatives / ancestors, although, as noted previously, several other stones have been generously contributed. I am also starting to survey and photograph nearby cemeteries in Texas.
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These are photos that I found in antique stores, flea markets, etc. and posted here in hopes that relatives of the people depicted will find them. The photos themselves come from all over the United States. I've even seen some from other countries. Since I don't have unlimited funds, I try to restrict myself to photos with names on them. Locations given are from the address of the photography studio where they were taken unless otherwise noted. These are not for sale, but I will be happy to give them to relatives in return for the cost of postage and purchase (usually about $3 - tintypes seem to run about $5). I cannot take requests to look for photos of specific families - I just pick up what I can find when I see them.
NOTE: This section has not been updated for quite some time. I really wanted to keep up with it, but currently have too much else going on. I will leave these here for now and hopefully will be able to get back into this before too long.
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