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Vanderpool – Vanderpoel – Vanderport Update

Earlier this year I had taken the plunge into trying to track my biological great-grandfather on my father’s side. You can read my other posts linked at the bottom of this post.

Thanks to AncestryDNA tests for myself and my father, a couple weeks ago I finally had a match to a possible Vanderpool cousin with research that may help me break through this brick wall.

My search started during the winter of 2021/2022, looking for my unknown biological paternal great grandfather. I have a name of Vanderport, a photo, and the knowledge that he was briefly in a relationship with my great-grandmother Edith Boyd in Saskatchewan in 1917.

I haven’t had any DNA matches that had possible Vanderpoel/Vanderpool/Vanderport ancestry that was more recent than the 1700s New York state. But, mid-November, my Ancestry Thru Lines charts for my father and myself surprisingly started showing possible ancestors. Names like Mary Polly Wheeler, Lena Jansen, Lucinda Johnson.

So, I’m now adding these lines to my main family tree, slowly recreating the trees & verifying records, in the hopes of finding which son is perhaps my missing ancestor.

There’s some interesting items coming to light as I do this research.

Now, when I first started delving into the Vanderport options, I started with any families that were in Saskatchewan in 1917. I found one family in Tribune with sons that were single and comparable age. I’ve traced this family quite a ways, from their immigration from the Netherlands into the States, then pioneer years in Saskatchewan, eventually moving back to Washington State. I found a 1970s/1980s photo of a man in this family that looked eerily similar to the photo I have from the 1910s/1920s, but I never found a DNA match to anyone on the branches I had traced thru this family.

So I thought, ok, maybe my missing Vanderport came from the area of Jamestown or Pingree, North Dakota where great-grandmother’s Boyd & Hosmer families came from prior to moving north into Canada. So I traced some of another Vanderport family found near Jamestown, again with no DNA matches appearing.

My great-grandmother’s grandparents lived in the area of Athens Borough, Bradford county, Pennsylvania area 1860s-1880 before traveling west to the Dakota Territories. So imagine my surprise, or not so surprising, discovery that this new tip I have is leading to Vanderpool/Vanderpoel families that lived in Bradford county from 1790s-1900s. I’m discovering sons & daughters of these early families intermarrying with a small circle of families in the region. So, now I’m wondering how this will all evolve – will this missing great-grandfather turn out to be a “kissing cousin” that travelled to Saskatchewan to visit his cousins then after being rejected by great-grandma Edith’s parents, he returned home to Pennsylvania?

I’m fortunate enough that there’s a good amount of the Bradford county history available for searching, online and offline. Where will it lead me?

The search continues…

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