REFERENCES

Persons contributing information on their families usually expressed a desire that I prepare a report on my findings and make copies available for them and their families. Therefore this Booklet. Accuracy was foremost in preparing this report and documentation was sought from primary sources wherever possible. Other information was first hand from correspondence with a member of the family and is assumed correct. Such correspondence is in this compiler’s files indexed as to name within family groups. Sources of information are wide varied. Many cities and places were visited in this research. Places visited were: the court house, the libraries, graveyards and homes throughout Dutchess County, N.Y., our ancestral area; to Poughkeepsie and East Fishkill, and to the Dutch Reformed Church at Hopewell Junction where 200 or more Van Vlacks are buried. Trips were made to New York City Library and to the New York Biographical and Genealogical Library where I reviewed Jane Van Vleck’s miscellaneous files on her Van Vlack data deposited there; also the Holland Society of New York with their excellent library; and to Albany, N.Y State Library. The National Archives of Washington, D.C. maintained much about ancestor Abraham, a patriot in the Revolution. I visited the Newberry Genealogical Library in Chicago, then north to Wheeling and west to Geneva, Ill., where my ancestors pioneered before moving to Parkersburg, W.VA.

The libraries and court houses of Wood, Wirt, and Randolph counties in West Virginia revealed dates of births, marriages, deaths and prop owned of my older relatives. Also helpful was Della (Van Vlack) Bechtel’s file of correspondence with relatives in the 1920’s in her search of lineage for her DAR membership.

Attending the Daggett Reunion held annually in Parkersburg, W.Va. provided first hand stories, activities and dates on Theodore’s family members, when adults, from those of the oldest Daggett kin who, as children, visited and knew thcm especially Dale (Summerfield-Daggett) Amborn.