thank you for the information i new most of the information that you had put down other then the penssylvania dutch and the herman meaning. i am new to all this and really wished that my family tree would of been written down a long time ago so i could under stand where they came from and who they all where. thank you again Heather > I need to add a note about my last message. The Pennsylvania Dutch were not > Dutch. They were German. The word "Dutch" as used in "Pennsylvania Dutch" is a > corruption of the word "Deutsch", meaning German. When these Germans came over > to this continent many English-speaking people, when they heard the word > "Deutsch" spoken, incorrectly associated it with the word "Dutch". Many CRAIGS > have a history of the term "Black Dutch" and this is why it is important. > > Ima