Marleen has corrected me that my Mothers maiden name, Van Horne, is not Dutch, but Danish. However, since Matthys Cornelissen son, Abraham married Anna Covenhoven (various other spellings) who is a descendant of Wolfert Gerretsen Van Couenhoven, I suppose I discovered my Dutch heritage. Lisa Marleen Van Horne wrote: > Literally, for centuries, my family has boasted about their Dutch ancestors. > > You can understand my consternation when I found the 1692 marriage > record for my immigrant ancestor, Matthys Cornelissen, on Donna > Rittenbatt's website, and he was discribed as "van Jutland". This is > the only place where that discription of my ancestor appears, but his > descendants took the surname Van Horne. It happens that on the northern > tip of Jutland, there is a town and an administrative district named > Horne. Unfortunately, as near as I have been able to determine, there > are no records from this area for the period of time he might have lived > there. > > Analysis of the haplogroup information fromm the yDNA of descendants of > Matthys Cornelissen indicates he belonged to a specific > clade---I1a-AS12. This is one of the Anglo Saxon types that with others > makes up the majority of the male population of Denmark. > > Marleen Van Horne > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >