My ancestry is a blending of the Dingman, Beadle, Hatt and Neal clans. This book follows my ancestors from their immigration to the United States to present day. Their treks across our country were like many before and after them...settling in the coastal areas of Maine and New Hampshire, the early Quaker settlements in Pennsylvania and the Dutch settlements in New York. Most of their descendants moved onto western New York, western Ohio and Michigan where my parents met and married. Details are annotated with citations gleaned from various sources but mostly Ancestry.com. Occasionally I will speculate about earlier generations but careful to note that more research is required. I also present some DNA material in support of the proof of my ancestry line. I hope the reader will find, as I have for the past 25 years, that knowing where your ancestors came from and why is important and can be passed on to future researchers and your own descendants. The Ancestry tree that supports this book is a work in progress and can be found on Ancestry.com.