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A Gezina mystery in Amsterdam

In 1883 there are in Amsterdam two death certificates for a Gesina ten Bruggencate. Neither lists the parents, both are listed as widow of Christoffel Ubbink or Upp. The birth dates are different, one was 70 yrs old (whch would make her birth year around 1812-1813), the other 59 yrs …

Isaac Bedient

My son-in-law’s grandmother descends from Thomas Bedient, who came to this country sometime before 1695. He settled in Fairfield County, CT.  The family stays in Fairfield for about a century, when great-grandson Mordecai moves to Butternuts, Otsego County, NY before the 1810 census. His brother Isaac follows sometime after the …