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From: Aileen Norris <>
Subject: Re: [GUS-REEB] Introductions Please
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:46:10 -0400
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Very good job there cuzin Harlan, I was not trying to show you up please
forgive me. But at least we know more about you now.

When my husband's daughter Paula lived in Boulder we visited her and her
husband. I fell in love with Colorado, that is beautiful country. Lafayette
is a nice community too, I had a friend who bought a house in Lafayette many
years ago. I don't even know if he still lives there, we lost contact with
each other about ten years ago. I have never been to Minnesota but I have
not seen a state yet that was not beautiful in its own right. Thanks for the
new introduction.
Aileen
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Subject: Re: [GUS-REEB] Introductions Please


> Hello Cousins,
>
> Aileen kinda showed me up (wink) in her introduction by actually
introducing
> herself, while I just wrote out my family lineage. So, I'm going to take
> another crack at the introduction.
>
> Hi, my name is Harlan Merle Zeinstra. I'm the first son and second child
of
> five. I am currently living in Lafayette, Colorado, just east of Boulder
> (10 minutes) and north of Denver (30 minutes). I haven't always lived
here but
> was born and raised in Pipestone, Pipestone County, Minnesota. After
> graduating from Pipestone High School and Saint Cloud State University I
lived in
> the Minneapolis, Minnesota area for many years. Eight years ago our
family
> moved to Boulder County, Colorado. My occupation is a Certified Public
> Accountant and I have my own small accounting firm, licensed & working in
the states
> of Colorado, Minnesota and Wisconsin. I work primarily in corporate
audit
> and taxation with nonprofit and cooperatives organizations.
>
> I began my genealogy research many years ago in an attempt to document my
> wife's family claim that they are descended from Dr. Samuel Fuller of the
> Mayflower. Years later and thousands of names recorded, I still have not
been
> able to prove my initial task.
>
> After several months of researching the Fuller line my mother subtly asked
> me if I was interested in my own family tree. Seems my paternal
grandmother
> was interested in genealogy and she had documented the Zeinstra family
tree
> before her death. This was, as I imagine many of you, the beginning of
an
> obsession to locate and document our family information. Once I had
documented
> several generations, I discovered empty tree roots. Well, you know how
> accountant's always like things to "balance," and one side of the family
tree was
> pretty heavily weighted, so it was time to research my mother's Raph
family
> name. Now years later we know that the name Raph was once Reeb, but at
the
> time we didn't know this and to make matter worse, my brick wall was an
orphan
> who had lived in Wisconsin and his name had been spelled Rape (not quite
the
> same as Raph). Well, after many years of research and a lot of missing
pieces
> to a puzzle that I didn't know what it would look like, I was told that
> there was a genealogist named John V. Reeb that thought there was a
connection
> between the Raph name and the Reeb name. Well, this seems like an odd
idea,
> but my first cousin Darvin D. Raph had decided to join a DNA test with
the Reeb
> family to see if the connection could be validated. The results said
yes,
> and this validated the research that was already done by John V. Reeb and
you
> know the rest of the story.
>
> I know from talking to John V. Reeb that his side of this story is much
more
> extensive and I am sure glad that I have had the opportunity to talk to
John
> about our family.
>
> So, without further adieu, once again this is my lineage:
>
>
> Harlan Merle Zeinstra (me)
> Harvey Zeinstra & Carol Ann Raph (my parents)
> Merlye Henry Raph & Elsie Emma Augusta Schierholz (my grandparents)
> Arthur Berton Raph & Cora Mae Zarn (my great grandparents
> Henry Harrison Raph & Susan Adaline Cornwell (my 2 greats grandparents)
> David Reeb & Margaret Ruggles (my 3 greats grandparents)
> Heinrich (Henry) Reeb & Catharine Barbara Heiny (my 4 greats
grandparents)
> Johann Michael Reeb & Catharina Witmer( my 5 greats grandparents)
> Gustavus Reeb & Anna Margaretha Stroh (my 6 greats grandparents)
> Johann Peter Reeb & Anna Margaretha Guth (my 7 greats grandparents)
> Johann Nicolaus Reeb & Catharina Wuerth (my 8 greats grandparents)
> Heinrich Reeb & (Unknown) (my 9 greats grandparents)
>
> I would love to know your family lineage and if for some reason you wish
> certain living people to remain anonymous, well, I can live with that too.
I
> just record the missing generation(s) as "boy" or "girl" and if I have a
sur
> name I do include that.
>
> Wishing you the best,
> Harlan M. Zeinstra
> Lafayette, Colorado
>
>
>
>
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