> There's a thick book, published in 1916, on the Schermerhorn family. Everybody in this country with the name is descended from Jacob Janse, who came here about 1638 (I'll get corrected, I know), and therefore is a cousin. (Unless they immigrated after 1916.) And that book dropped the lines that daughtered out. So it includes my ggg grandmother Neltje Schermerhorn, b. 1781, but none of her Bastion children (or even her illegitimate Van Slyke daughter). I can't even guess how many Schermerhorn cousins I have, let alone those who dropped sylables here or there. The book in question is Schermerhorn Genealogy and Family Chronicles, available through the Schermerhorn family section of my site: <http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/schermerhorn/> -- Bob Sullivan Schenectady Digital History Archive <http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/> Schenectady County (NY) Public Library