Genea-goal 2010: Proving William Ryckman

My plans and goals for my Ryckman family remain the same as last year because I still have my brick wall.  Here are my genea-goals for 2010 for researching my line of the Ryckman family:

• Find the information needed to prove that Harman A. Ryckman is the son of William Ryckman.
• Find the information needed to prove that William Ryckman is the son of Albert Ryckman.
• Contingent upon the above two items, complete my application for my Loyalist certificate as a descendant of John Ryckman.  Proving William Ryckman or should I say the lack thereof, has been the one thing holding me up with getting my certificate.

Achieving all three genea-goals this coming year may have the result of me doing some major happy genea-dancing!

Posted for the 87th edition of the Carnival of Genealogy.

Copyright 2009 by Kathryn Lake.

I'm a Double Ryckman

With the RYCKMAN family being in North America for just over four hundred years, knowing which line of this family to research can be tricky.  Just about anyone in Canada and USA with a Ryckman ancestor is related to anyone else who has a Ryckman ancestor.  Some of us are "double" Ryckmans. Throw into the mix that the Ryckman ancestors liked to use the same common given names and you can see how confusing researching this family might be.

The couple posted on the blog banner here are my great-grandparents, Harman Eugene RYCKMAN and Ida IRWIN.  They are the beginning of my research into the Ryckman family.  I have been researching them and their ancestors since 2002.

Here is a condensed pedigree of my line:

Me
Parent
Grandparent
Harman Eugene RYCKMAN and Ida IRWIN
William Eugene RYCKMAN and Elizabeth Saphronia RAYSON
Harman A. RYCKMAN and Icavilla SIMONS
William RYCKMAN and Kearce Elizabeth WIRICK
Albert RYCKMAN and Hannah VAN ETTEN
Johannes RYCKMAN and Eunice WARD
                                                Johannes RYCKMAN and Maria VAN SLYKE              
Johannes Albertse RYCKMAN and Catherine KIP
Albert Janse RYCKMAN and Neeltje QUACKENBOS
*Jan Janse RYCKMAN and Trijntje JONAS

Remember the double Ryckman line?

                                             Johannes RYCKMAN and Maria VAN SLYKE (same as above)
Cornelis VAN SLYKE and Claartje Janse BRADT
Jacques Cornelisse VAN SLYKE and Grietje Harmense RYCKMAN
*Harmen Janse RYCKMAN

*Harmen and Jan were brothers.  It is because Maria Van Slyke married back into the Ryckman family that many descendants have a double ancestral line.

If you are researching the Ryckman family I would love to hear from you.  And even you aren't, I would still be pleased if you left me a comment.