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Randolph County, West Virginia Marriage Records Transcribed by Nicholas Sturm and Catherine Lew Sturm
Search for West Virginia Marriage Records Search by bride or grooms name
Schoonover Baptisms & Marriages--Kingston Transcribed by Jay Schoonover
Schoonover Baptisms & Marriages--Minisink Valley Transcribed by Jay Schoonover
Full Text of "Historical gazetteer of Tioga County, New York, 1785-1888"
Schoonover Family Genealogical Forum
Tri-Counties Genealogy & History
Painted Hills Genealogy Society
U.S. Surname Distribution Enter the Schoonover surname and get a map of the U.S. showing the distribution of Schoonover in the years 1950, 1880, 1920, and 1990. This site allows one free search.
U.S. Bureau of Land Management Search for Land Patents issued to Schoonovers.
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System Search for Schoonovers who served in the Civil War.
Deathindexes.com Directory of links to websites with online death indexes, listed by state and county. Included are death records, death certificate indexes, death notices and registers, obituaries, probate indexes, and cemetery and burial records.
Linkpendium Linkpendium has begun building "Genealogical Google" search engines for every state. These search engines cover the free information uploaded to the Web by
libraries, other governmental units, various projects, and a multitude of individuals.
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness A global volunteer organization more than 4,000 members strong whose participants have agreed to do a free genealogy research task at least once per month in their local area as an act of kindness. While the volunteers of Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK) have agreed to donate their time for free, you MUST PAY the volunteer for his/her expenses in fulfilling your request (copies, printing fees, postage, film or video tape, parking fees, etc.).
Chronicling America Search America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities external link and the Library of Congress. Search by name and/or range of years.
The print sources below are key works on early Schoonovers in America and on particular Schoonover lines:
Barris, Norwood J. Dutch Cousins: 784 Descendants of Geurt Hendrickse Van Schoonhoven of Albany and Half Moon, NY (privately printed, 2001),
Brink, Andrew. "The Van Schoonhovens: Enterprising Immigrants," New York: The Holland Society of New York, de Halve Maen, Summer, 1999. Read complete article here.
Franksain, Esther. Van Schoonhover - Schoonover Some Allied Families 1652 - 1979.[Published by the author?]
Hoagland, Edward Coolbaugh, 1908- The Schoonover & allied families; Published: Wysox, Pa., 1954.
Hoagland, Edward Coolbaugh, 1908- Twigs from family trees; or, 162 early American and foreign lineages of first settlers in this country and their descendants who were pioneers in northern Pennsylvania and central New York; together with royal lineages, revolutionary journals, incidents and anecdotes of the old timers, and a register of the marriages and deaths of the pioneers. Carefully compiled from authentic sources, by Edward Coolbaugh Hoagland ... Published: Wysox, Pa., The author, 1938-<1986 >
Lunsford, Ollie Collett, 1912- The families of Van Schoonhoven, Schoonhoven, Schoonover : mostly descendants of Benjamin Schoonover of Randolph County, West Virginia / compiled and edited by Ollie Mae (Collett) Lunsford. Published: Cortland, Ohio (166 Erie St., Cortland 44410) O.M.C. Lunsford, [between 1983 and 1986] First edition published: Providence, Utah : K. W. Watkins, [c1977]
Schoonover, LaVern. Schoonover genealogy. [publisher unknown]
Schoonover, Lloyd, 1917- Our lives and times / by Lloyd and Opal Schoonover. Published: [Pollock, Mo.?] : L. & O. Schoonover, [1994]
Schoonover, Tedford E. (Tedford Eugene), 1909- Our family history : Schoonover, Karr, Hayes, Robinson / . Colorado Springs, Colo.[1979]
Schoonover, Jason, 1946- Westward From New Amsterdam. Info on the book, how to order here.
Myers, Patty B. Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Henry Bedford and His Wife Susan Rosina Schoonover.
Barris, Norris J. Dutch Cousins: 784 Descendants of Guert Hendrickse Van Schoonhoven. Privately published, 2001.
Green, Donald E. and Schoonover, Tony R. From New York to Texas: The Schoonover Family Frontier Saga. 2009
Books on New Amsterdam and early Dutch settlement in the New World:
Brink, Andrew. Invading Paradise: Esopus Settlers at War with Natives, 1659, 1663. Xlibris Corporation, 2003.
Shorto, Russell. The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan & The Forgotten Colony That Shaped America. Doubleday, 2004.
Fried, Marc B. The early history of Kingston & Ulster County, N.Y. Marbletown, NY: Ulster County Historical Society, 1975.
Fernow, Berthold. The Records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 Anno Domini. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co, 1976.
Dirck Van Vliet's Family:
Van Fleet, James A. (James Alward) Four centuries Americans : Van Fleet/Van Vliet/Van Vleet, 1634-2001. Bowie, Md. : Heritage Books, Inc., 2002.
Crum Family:
· Ten Eyck, Jane Stewart. Crum Cousins: Descendants of Floris Willem Crum of Rockland County, New York. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2007.
· Ten Eyck, Jane Stewart. Crum Cousins: Descendants of Floris Willem Crum of Rockland County, New York. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2007.
These are a few of the Family Tree websites of families who have intermarried with Schoonovers:
The Genealogy pages of Steve and Sue Devine (Vannatta/VanEtten/VanAken/Vannatter, Swartwout)
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