Emperor Charlemagne

King Charles I of France (Charlemagne) is a grandfather to many persons in our family tree. As a result we have many kings, queens, dukes, duchesses, etc. as grandparents and cousins.

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The primary purpose of LookingBackwards.net is to provide a central repository for family history for the combined Mitchell and Vanderpool families. Additionally, our website documents other activities and pastimes our family enjoys. Our site is constantly undergoing revision and rearrangement; portions of the site may be temporarily unavailable. If your selection is not available, please revisit us in a few days and attempt it again.

Our ancestral lines include Mitchell, Clark, Jones, Moore, Allbright, Albright, Albrecht, Robinson, Phares, Brough, Vanderpool, Gibson, Guinn, Campbell, Brashears, and Brazil, and many more.

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Wynant Gerritse Van Der Poel

The Wynants Kill is a 15.8-mile-long (25.4 km) stream which has its source at Glass Lake near Averill Park, New York, and terminates at the Hudson River at Troy, New York. The stream is named after Wijnant Gerritsen van der Poel (1617–1699), a Dutch cabinet maker from Meppel who owned a sawmill on it in the 1650s,[3][4] while kill is from an archaic Dutch word for "stream".