Roll Family Resources
on the Internet
This page is not intended to be a comprehensive list of resources, but merely a small sample of what can be found on the Internet.

Roll Family Genealogies

The Roll Family Homepage
Audrey (Shields) Hancock
This site is for the collection of information, family photos, gravestone photos, biographies, maps, obituaries, marriage records, etc., pertinent to the descendants of Mangel Rol and his wife, Antje via their immigrant son, Jan Mangels(e) Roll and his wife, Tryntje "Catherine" Pieters(e) Van Woggelum.

JanisWeb Genealogy
Janis S. Stone
Some of the surnames here are Boquet, Caniachkoo, du Chesne, Force, Krobel, Mangels, Munster, Rall, Rol, Roll, Strickhauser, Torion, Van Winkle, Van Woggelum, Winkle, and Woggelum.

Michael VanBaaren's Genealogy Home Page
Michael VanBaaren
Michael VenBaaren's site includes several useful lines for the Roll family researcher. His "Colonial Dutch Families" include the Rolls and related lines. The Smith and Cory families of Essex County, New Jersey are well represented.

The Wahl Family
Harry Wahl
This was the first Web site with the genealogy of the Roll family on the Internet. If you are interested in the genealogy of the Carman, Cross, Roll, Schumacher, and Wahl families, this should be one place you visit. Harry has some interesting biographies of Roll family members.

Boerum, Booraem, Booream, Booram, Boorem, Boorom, Boorum, Boram, Borem, Borom, Borum, and more?
Linda Boorom
This site is new, and plans to contain bible records, biographies, census records, court records, deeds, death records, family group sheets, index by location, links, marriage records, message boards, military, other, photo album, researchers and wills.

The Roll Family
Mitch Roll
Mitch Roll's surname owes its origins to the Old High German word "hrod", meaning "fame" or "renowned". In the 1600's his Roll family lived in Jockgrim, Rhineland-Pfalz in the west-central part of Germany near the French border. His ancestors emigrated to North Dakota. Mitch includes all families with the Roll surname in his worldwide database.

It is possible that his family is related to the Dutch Rolls, who may have emigrated from Switzerland, Germany, or France down the Rhine to the Netherlands.

Genealogies of Related Families

Colonial Families to New Jersey
Milton J. Rankin
All of the early settlers of New Jersey did not come directly from Europe. Between 1660 and 1750, many migrated from other colonies in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Long Island, New York. Each family presented on this page will begin with the first immigrant from Europe and focus on those descendants that lived in, or passed through, New Jersey. Often the progenitor of the family in North America never lived in New Jersey, but it was his children, grandchildren, or great grandchildren who were the early settlers of many New Jersey communities.

The Ball Room: Descendants of Edward Ball
The Ball Interest Group
This site includes one Roll and early families related to the Rolls, with much pertinent information. Here you can find a transcription of Baptisms at the Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam (1639-1730), which is almost a megabyte in size, so think twice before you load it. The Ball Room is a great resource for genealogists researching in the New England and the Mid-Atlantic states. The database at the site is over a year old.

History and Genealogy of Westfield New Jersey and Vicinity
Dave Kane
This Web site is for researchers who are trying to decipher families who were residents of the town of Westfield, now in Union County, New Jersey. The site includes the genealogies of the families of Jacob Clark and Temperance, Samuel Clark and Hester White, John Woodruffe and Elizabeth Cartwright, Daniel Baker and Abigail Osborn, John Clark and Abigail Harriman, and Miller. The Rolls can be found among these families. Records found there are from the Greaves papers, Westfield Presbyterian Church baptisms 1759-1775, and marriages 1759-1800, Colonial Cemetery, Clinker Lots, township births, tavern licenses, Miller-Roll cemetery, and the 1830 census. This site is attractive and growing.

Homepage of David E. and Audrey (Shields) Hancock
David E. and Audrey (Shields) Hancock
Both Dave and Audrey's ancestors are covered in great detail here. A few of the surnames are Baker, Brooks, Clark, Dunham, Enyart, including the entire collection of Enyart Family Newsletters, Miller, Mills, Riggs, Roll, Stuyvesant, and Van Woggelum. Both David and Audrey are descended from the Van Woggelum family. It should take a few hours just to explore the site.

The Vreeland Family 1640 to Present
The Vreeland Project
Barbara Erwin-McGuire, Mary Lou Vreeland-Fischer, and Patti Vreeland Boyle
The Vreeland Genealogy Project is a joint effort of a number of researchers. If you are studying the dedescendants of Michael Jansen Vreeland and Fitje Hartmans Wessels, then you need to spend some time here.

On the Trail of Our Ancestors
Donna Ristenbatt
This site includes early families related to the Rolls with abundant and relevant information about Dutch, Palatine and Mennonite immigrants, including Loyalist muster rolls, cemetery lists, and ship passenger lists. Resources for the Dutch colonial period present information about the Dutch Reformed Church, naming patterns, and social customs. Here you can find a Dutch colonial family genealogy bibliography, and names and ages of heads of Palatine families in the City of New York in 1710.

The Olive Tree Genealogy Site
Lorine McGinnis Schulze
This site is an wonderful resource for those researching early families related to the Rolls. Genealogy source materials from different locations and eras include information about Dutch, Hugenot, Walloon, Palatine, and Irish immigrants to Ontario, New Netherland, New York, and New Jersey. Here you can find military lists, ship passenger lists, and the 17th Century Immigrants to New York Registry.

Genealogical Resources for Staten Island
Janet
This is a collaborative online resource for Staten Island, Richmond County, New York, genealogy. The site includes both on-site information and links to Staten Island history, preservation, surname queries, organizations, a list of researchers with email addresses and surnames, a mailing list, books and lookups, sources of vital, probate and census records, directories, cemeteries, churches, geography, and maps. Here you can find the text of issues of the newsletter of the Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries of Staten Island.