GUESTBOOK AND OTHER GOOD LINKS
SOME GOOD LINKS
THE NORMANSKILL BY THE ALBANY COUNTY RAIL TRAIL (VIDEO)
LOG OF THE SHIP RENSSELAERSWYCK
documenting the birth of Storm Vanderzee on November 2
STORM VANDERZEE BAPTIZED IN ENGLAND
–page 6 of the linked attachment
RENSSELAERSWYCK MANUSCRIPTS on Google Books
SURNAMES BY STATE (On Ancestory.com)
1850 UNITED STATES CENSUS on FamilySearch
NOTE: SOME OF OUR LINKS DON'T WORK. WE'RE WORKING ON IT. :-)
BRADT COUSINS WEBSITES
VAN PATTEN FAMILY ANCESTRY WEBSITE
SLINGERLAND FAMILY
SLINGERLAND, TIMES-UNION ARTICLE
SWARTHOUT FAMILY WEBSITE
SWARTHOUT CHRONICLES
BRADT UE WEBSITE
PIONEER BROTT FAMILY
HORNBECK FAMILY
PUTMAN/POOTMAN FAMILY
VAN WORMER FAMILY
VAN WORMER ON FACEBOOK
SCHERMERHORN FAMILY
VROOMAN FAMILY
THE MAYBEE SOCIETY
SOME CALIFORNIA BRATTS
VANBRADT MEREDITH INDEX
VAN EPS WEBSITE
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For your convenience.
This section is for the commercial websites of Bradt cousins. The Bradt Family Society has no connection with these businesses. If you'd like to have the website of your business listed here, just leave a message in our Guestbook.
GLORIA WALDRON HUKLE: HISTORICAL FICTION NOVELS
KINETICO STUDIOS: MAN CLOCKS
NB (Note!!!)
A couple of the websites above present Arent Andriessen Bratt (#2 in Cynthia's Descendants of Albert and Arent Andriessen Bradt) as possibly having a Mohawk mother. There are several problems with this; one of clinchers is that Arent was born before New Netherland was settled by Europeans. This is a mix-up that came about because some Bradts do have Native American ancestors.
As documented in Cynthia's book, Arent A. Bradt's (#231) mother was Susanna Van Slyck, and her mother was 50% Native American, Wolf Clan, Haudenosaunee Nation, one of the Mohawk clans. You can see how mixing up the Arents leads to confusion. (There are at least 17 Arents in the first six generations of Bradts in America.)
Perfect publications are pretty much impossible, whether digital or hard copy. By way of example, we may sometimes refer to "Arent Bratt(#2)" or "Arent Andriessen Bradt" on this website or in Bradt publications. In actuality, Arent had died before Bratt came into use, and long before Bradt became common. (Arent's children did use the name Bratt.)
HELP! INFORMATION OVERLOAD
or
Where Can I Find Reliable Family History?
Those of you who have used the internet to explore your family tree have quickly discovered what an overwhelming amount of information is available in cyberspace. You may have also discovered how much of it is wrong. So how can anyone tell what information is correct, what is likely, what is only speculative, and what is just plain wrong?
The Bradt Family Society has been very fortunate in having several cousins and friends who have been very thorough in researching our roots. What this means is that they go back to "original sources": government records, church records, gravestones, letters, etc. Newspapers and other contemporary written sources are helpful in filling in the gaps.
Bradt Family publications are very reliable. While our researchers have made mistakes just like everyone else, they have been very careful and methodical, and they have done it only to have an accurate record. They've never attempted to make any money from it.
Even on this site, you should read carefully. Some of the information posted here is about Bratts that have no documented connection to us. In particular a few Norwegian and Swedish Bratts may be related, but we have no supporting documentation.
Likewise in our Guestbook. The information you find on it is not edited or guaranteed by The Bradt Family Society.
If you'd like to verify information about the history of the Bradt Family, start with our officers and in particular with our historian, Daniel Bradt. He has access to the research and publications of Cynthia Brott Biasca, Peter Christoph, Joan Bradt Wood, Laurie Grimes, and more. You'll never go far wrong with any of these sources, and some of their books are available through inter-library loans, usually free of charge.
miscellaneous WEBSITES
3D Map of New Amsterdam in 1660 (Costello Plan), showing Bratt properties
–On the map, the block just behind and to the right of the fort has two buildings owned by Albert Andriessen (Bratt). The small one is an office, the large one is a warehouse.
Arent and Albert in the V.R. Bowier Manuscripts
Jon Bratt Otnes, the great pretender?
New Netherland Institute
Fredriksstad Blad, Fredrikstad Norway's Newspaper
A Few of the Genealogical Societies
in New York Many Bratts appear on these websites:
Schenectady County Link
New York State Museum Website
Saratoga County, New York Genealogy Links
Albany County, NY Background
Albany County Rootsweb Link
Rensselaer County Genweb Link
Herkimer and Montgomery Rootsweb Link
Albany & Eastern New York Genealogy
THE IMAGES BELOW ARE FROM THE LINK TO THE 3D MAP FARTHER UP THE PAGE:
THE NEW AMSTERDAM GALLERY
