2016 Year End Appeal Building on Our Vision At the completion of the Institute’s second full calendar year we added considerably upon the successes of our first year. The Institute continued to expand its archival holdings relating to Jacob Leisler and his world, as well as to include a wider range of materials relating to the former Dutch territory of New Netherland under English rule. This resulted in an increasing number of researchers making use of the Institute's holdings—including …
Year End Appeal
We are coming to the end of the first full calendar year for the Jacob Leisler Institute and in that time we have accomplished much to be proud of. In April the Institute received its IRS determination letter indicating that we qualify as a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization. In September we were notified that our application for New York State Charities Registration had gone through. …
Trustees Waterman and Jacobs’ Publication
Two Jacob Leisler Institute Board members have seen an earlier book publication go into its second print run (actually, printing-on-demand). Kees-Jan Waterman and Jaap Jacobs, together with third editor Charles Gehring, published Indianenverhalen: De vroegste beschrijvingen van Indianen langs de Hudsonrivier (1609-1680) in 2009. The first printing of 1,500 copies was sold out. While the main title is difficult to translate into English, the subtitle explains that it is a collection of almost all …
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Kevin Hannan New Institute Trustee
The Institute is most pleased to announce that Kevin Hannan was recently elected a Trustee of the Jacob Leisler Institute and has graciously accepted the position. …
Charles Zabriskie Jr. New Institute Trustee
The Institute is most pleased to announce that Charles Zabriskie Jr. was elected a Trustee of the Jacob Leisler Institute at the Institute's Annual Meeting on August 29th, and has graciously accepted the position. …
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Mary Collins Institute Library Consultant
The Jacob Leisler Institute is pleased to announce that Mary Collins, genealogist at East Sixth St. Genealogy and a special collections librarian, has agreed to serve as library/archive consultant for the Jacob Leisler Institute. Mary has an MSLIS degree, with a concentration in rare books and special collections, as well as a Certificate in archives and records management from the Palmer School at Long Island University, and holds the accreditation of Certified Genealogist from the Board for …
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