transcription my letter to American Sephardi Federation Center Jewish History
To ROOSEVELT-cousins ALL & other interested parties:Following is transcription of my letter dated 8/24/03 to
Sephardic House/American Sephardi Federation Center for
Jewish History, ATTN.:Randall Belinfante, M.A., M.S.,
M.LS., LIBRARIAN/ARCHIVIST--put in mailbox lobby of the
Jacksonville Post Office to go out in tommorrow morning's mail:
"Mr. Belinfante:
My 7th-great grandmother is ANNA MARGARIET ROOSEVELT
daughter of our immigrant ancestor CLAES MARTENSZEN van
ROSENVELT/ROSENFELT [not spelt "Rosevelt"] from HOLLAND.
My ANNA MARGARIET ROOSEVELT-branch of the American Roosevelts settled in the HUDSON RIVER VALLEY at Esopus-
Kingston-Hurley, ULSTER CO., NEW YORK, across the HUDSON
RIVER to the west/northwest of Hyde Park, Duchess Co.,
New York.By way of this my Roosevelt [ROSENVELT/ROSENFELT]-ancestry I am related to Presidents Theodore & Franklin and First Lady Anna Eleanor.By way of my SPANISH JEWISH Roosa-DeJONGH ancestry I am again related
to cousin President Franklin Roosevelt.My direct-line of
descent is is ROOSEVELT-Roosa-Cool-Kortright-Shively-Thompson.Mine & FDR's DeJONGH descent is through WYNTJE
ARIENS DeJONGH m. Aldert [also spelt Albert] Heymanse(n)
Roosa the JEW being my 8th-great grandparents.
THE EARLIEST genealogical knowledge about we American
Roosevelts was our 300-yrs. old family tradition that we Roosevelts [ROSENVELT/ROSENFELT] came from somewhere near
HAARLEM, NORTH HOLLAND.Reinforcing this is our coat-of-arms which immigrant CLAES van ROSENVELT/ROSENFELT brought
with him containing the NORTH HOLLAND-armorial crest of
3-ostrich feathers.Also, our name has the NORTH HOLLAND-
spelling of "ROSENVELT/ROSENFELT"--NOT the Zeeland southern
Holland spelling of "Rosevelt".It was an orphanmaster who
changed the spelling to Roosevelt--the spelling it has been
ever since to the present.
With cousins Theodore and, then, Franklin becoming
famous, the public inquired as to their ancestry.A nephew
of FDR, with some friends, went to HOLLAND to investigate
visited NORTH HOLLAND AND HAARLEM--[note NOT Oud-Vossemeer,
Tholen, Zeeland, in south Holland].Their efforts came up
empty handed.BUT, Dutch researchers their investigation did find in the 1700's a Mayor of the City of HAARLEM,
NORTH HOLLAND, called ROOSEVELT [ROSENVELT].
In the context of the c. 300-yrs. old family tradition
our coming from near HAARLEM, NORTH HOLLAND, cousin President Franklin Roosevelt's old friend, former Gov. of
Michigsn, Chase S. Osborn, M.D., LL.D., Sc.D., enumerates
FDR's & we American Roosevelts' [ROSENVELT/ROSENFELT]
SPANISH JEW-ancestry from reference-sources contained in his
personal library of 7,000-books.
Because next to nothingwas found up in NORTH HOLLAND
AND HAARLEM--only the 18th-century Mayor called ROOSEVELT
[ROSENVELT]--American research, from the 1920's to the present, has focused in on where the highest concentration
of Dutch Roosevelts is found and that is Zeeland--especially
the Island of Tholen, where there was a "Rosevelt" from which many Rosevelt/Roosevelts originated.Other than
sheer enormity of of numbers, todate NO evidence has been
found linking we American Roosevelts to the Zeeland-Rosevelts--NOT even a family tradition.Yet, this is what
the community of credentialed so-called "professional"
genealogists choose to accept & have been promoting ever
since.They selectively ignore c. 300-yrs. of Roosevelt
family tradition, they ignore cousin President Franklin
Rosevelt's repudiation of the Zeeland business as a "grand
publicity stunt someone thought up to attract tourists off
the beaten track".They ignore that as late as 1938,
c. 7-yrs. before his death, cousin President Franklin Roosevelt said, "there is a tradition in our family that
the Roosevelts came from somewhere near HAARLEM" [NORTH
HOLLAND].Yet, nearly most all biographies/histories having a section in their pages about the ancestry of we
American Roosevelts has selectively left out this small BUT
CRUCIAL statement by President Franklon Roosevelt during his
1938 interview with Virginia Pearce Delgado, have left out
the c. 300-yrs. Roosevelt family tradition of our coming
from near HAARLEM, NORTH HOLLAND--instead they promote
solely the Tholen/Zeeland-business.
I invite you, as LIBRARIAN/ARCHIVIST of the American
Sephardi Federation Center for Jewish History, to go to
the internet site of GenForum and under this website to the
"ROOSEVELT GENEALOGY FORUM" commencing with the catalyst posting this discussion/debate about the HOLLAND-cradle of
we American Roosevelts [ROSENVELT/ROSENFELT]--posting #124
dtd. 8/1/03--then procede to postings #145 dtd. 8/10/03 thru
#209 dtd. 8/22/03 to get the whole picture of this discussion/debate my rescuing/reclaiming our HAARLEM, NORTH HOLLAND & SEPHARDIC-ancestry/heritage vs. the "revisionist"
acceptence of Oud-Vossemeer, Tholen, Zeeland, in the south
of Holland as the Holland cradle of we American Roosevelts.
This discussion debate can be printed off this site to
provide the American Sephardi Federation library with some
further genealogical material my American Roosevelt [ROSENVELT/ROSENFELT]-ancestry, our HOLLAND-cradle in NORTH
HOLLAND somewhere near HAARLEM [note Amsterdam is only c. 9-
miles from HAARLEM--both had Jewish Communities], & our
SPANISH JEWISH descent, as NORTH HOLLAND ROSENVELTS, from the ROSSACAMPO [ROSSACAMPA/ROSSOCAMPO] familia.I also,
invite you to join in this discussion/debate.
Shalom,
Gregory Thompson, a ROOSEVELT [ROSENVELT/ROSENFELT]-
descendant & a member of Sephardic House/American
Sephardi Federation Center for Jewish History"
your ROOSEVELT [ROSENVELT/ROSENFELT]-cousin, Gregory Thompson.
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