Posted By:	Gregory Thompson
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	Subject:	Roosevelts came from near HAARLEM, NORTH HOLLAND, FDR's own words
	Post Date:	August 11, 2003 at 15:05:53
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Roosevelts came from near HAARLEM, NORTH HOLLAND, FDR's own words: "...There's a tradition in our family that the Roosevelts came from somewhere near HAARLEM...". [FDR to Delgado in 1938: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library, President's Personal File 73; also, see pg. 25 of FDR: A BIOGRAPHY by Ted Morgan (1985). HAARLEM is the artistic & scientific center of NORTH HOLLAND. "FDR prefered to believe that he descended from the more prominent HAARLEM ROOSEVELTS rather than from the common Vossemeer Roosevelts, who produced nothing but clergyman and schoolmaster. In 1938, he told an interviewer, Virginia Pearce Delgado: "I don't believe a word about this Zeeland business [Zeeland was the province to which the island of Tholen belonged]. I think it's all a grand publicity stunt someone thought up to attract tourists off the beaten track. There's a tradition in our family that the Roosevelts came from somewhere near HAARLEM..."" --pg. 25 of FDR: A BIOGRAPHY by Ted Morgan (1985) & in notes section of his book reference the FDR statement to Delgado is given as FDR to Delgado the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library [FDRL], President's Personal File [PPF] 73. --Gregory Thompson, a Roosevelt descendant, my 7th-great grandmother is ANNA MARGARIET ROOSEVELT m. Heyman Aldertse Roosa the JEW, she is the daughter of our MARRANO-immigrant ancestor, CLASE MARTENSZEN van ROSENVELT/ROSENFELT, from HOLLAND p.s.: HAARLEM, NORTH HOLLAND, is where the Roosevelt Study Center in HOLLAND should have been located and NOT the tourist attraction of Vossemeer, Tholen, Zeeland, South Holland.