Could use assistance of New Netherlands Project...

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My 6th great-grandmother is Jane (Hassert) Abeel - WikiTree Profile, who is believed to be the daughter of Jacob Hassert - WikiTree Profile, who I just created a profile for. Her mother was a Voorhees, but I know the New Netherlands Project has very high standards so I don't feel comfortable adding much more to this line on my own. 

WikiTree profile: Jacob Hassert
in Genealogy Help by Kae-Leah Williamson G2G6 Mach 3 (31.3k points)
recategorized by Ellen Smith

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Hmm... I think your Hassert family probably is German, and your Jacob might have been born in Germany or might have emigrated with his parents when he was very young. He or his parents (or both) might actually belong in the Palatine Migration project, rather than New Netherland. The names Voorhees and Abeel are, however, New Netherland family names.

Regardless of whether the profile is in the scope of a project, I wouldn't feel at all comfortable adding new profiles for parents to a profile like Jacob Hassert-5 until there was more "meat" in the profile than I see right now.  All I see there are estimated birth and death years and three bare-URL source citations, two of which are user-contributed content. Flesh out the profile with sourced information. What do you know about Jacob and how do you know it (or at least think you know it)? Where in the world was he born, who were his parents, what records do you have for those parents, what evidence do you have for his marriage and children, etc.? Who wrote the book you cited as a Google Books URL, what is the book title, when and where was it published, and what did you learn from the book?  You might have enough information to provide a good basis for new profile. And project members can advise you on research resources once we have some information to help identify the specific places, churches, and time periods of interest. Given the name Voorhees, I can tell you that the Voorhees Family Genealogy could be a helpful resource for you.

Also, before you create a new profile, use WikiTree name search to look carefully for potential duplicates. For example, I find a couple of existing profiles for women with birth names of Ann/Anna/Annetje Voorhees/Voorhies/Van Voorhees (etc.) of about the right age to possibly be the wife of your Jacob Hassert, so you should take a look to see if one of them might be your person. The name matching feature used on the WikiTree "new profile" page often fails to detect duplicates for New Netherland people; name search is much better, but far from foolproof, so we have to be clever about searching manually to find variant spellings and alternative forms of names.

by Ellen Smith G2G Astronaut (1.5m points)

Thanks. He's mentioned apparently in the 1791 will of Lucas Van Voorhees of New Brunswick as the late husband of his daughter Anne, on pg. 475 of A Genealogy of the Van Voorhees Family In America.

https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/G006901.pdf

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Voorhees-293

I went ahead and bit the bullet by creating a profile because being clearly/specifically mentioned in her father's will feels like pretty solid evidence to me, but I can't add her parents without Project permission. They already have profiles though created years ago, they just need to be connected:

Lucas Minne Van Voorhees (1718-1791) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

Catalyntje Vandervoort (1720-) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

The Antie for whom you created a profile appears to be the girl mentioned as Ann on page 123 in the 1984 Van Voorhees genealogy I cited here. It appears from that entry that there are church records for her family's baptisms.

Thanks, I added the baptism(with source citation) to her bio.
Thanks. I connected to her parents.

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