I always knew that I had Dutch roots, as well. My gg-gm was born, Deborah Rivers SKATES. The name always intrigued me. My aunt had a needlepoint which she had stiched, which was of a Dutch mother, sitting on a bench, chiding her son, out in the garden. It was stiched on punched paper. It was intended to be a pillow cover. The background was never finished, and the paper began to deteriorate, so my aunt had it trimmed, mounted, placed behind glass and framed. It hung in her living room for many yeras. It now hangs in mine. When I started doing serious genealogy, I just started looking in the Indexes of all the books in our Local History Room (the Rockland Room), for SKATES. I found nothing, until I found a brief, single line, ancestor table in one of the volumes of American Ancestry by Thomas P. Hughes, published by Joel Munsell's Sons, 1887, and re-published by the genealogical Publishing Company in 1968. The line went from SKATES to SKAATES to SKAATS to SCHAATS to SCHAETS. The earliest ancestor was Domine Gideon SCHAETS, who came here in 1650, and became the second Dutch minister at Albany, serving for 50 years. Once I started looking at listings beginning with SCH---, rather than SKA---, it opened up everything. My SCHAETS married into BENSONs (Swedish/Dutch), SCHUYLER and LUWES/LEWIS (from Thomas Lewis, "the Irishman", who was born in Belfast, of parents thought to be Dutch Traders). Further research into the SCHAETS family turned up other connections into Albany, New Amsterdam and (New) Haarlem "Dutch" families including - RUTGERS (from Rutger Jacobsen Van SCHOENDERWOERT), SCHUYLER (German/Dutch), BRADT (Norwegian/Dutch), BLANCK, BANCKER, SUYDAM, ABEEL, LAURENS, LEISLER (German/French/Dutch), TYMENS, VerPLANCK (Belgian/Dutch), de HOOGHES, CROON, VANDERBEECK (German/Dutch) (Paulus), JANSZEN, and Marritje JANSZEN/JANS (sister of the infamous Anneke JANS, of the Trinity Church farm property fame), VINGE, Vab BREESTEDE, Van EPS, and BADIE/BADYE (French/Dutch). I welcome contact with anyone researching any of these lines. What amazes me is how many of these "Dutch" ancestors had roots in other European countries, and were Dutch by culture, and sometimes birth, rather than ancestry. What a wonderful heritage our Dutch ancestors have given us. Bob Protzmann ----- Original Message ----- From: ETHELKK@aol.com Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:01 am Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] How I discovered I have Dutch ancestry [with tangled roots] To: Dutch-Colonies@rootsweb.com > I always knew I was Dutch. My maternal grandparents, the Van > Wycks, > emigrated from Holland in 1864. I knew nothing of my paternal > grandparents. When > my daughter was expecting her first child, I knew I had to > give my first > grandchild roots and I became hooked on genealogy. What a > nice surprise to find > I have 'New Dutch' and 'Old Dutch'. On my paternal old Dutch > side, I have > about 30 ancestors in New Amsterdam. The next surprise was > finding I had very > tangled roots and was descended from the same ancestor more > than once. > > > My tangled roots. > *I am descended from three sons of Epke Jacobsen Banta, the > immigrant. > *I am descended from two sons of David J Demarest, the > immigrant. > *I am descended from two daughters of Lubbert Gysbertsen Van > Blarcom, the > immigrant. > *I am descended from two sons of David Ackerman, the immigrant. > *I am descended from a son and a daughter of Jan Louwe Bogert, > the > immigrant. > *I am descended from a son and a daughter of Joost DeBaun, the > immigrant. > > *I am descended from a son and a daughter of Jan Tiebout, the > immigrant.*I am descended from two daughters of Simon DeRuine, > the immigrant. > *Jannetje Jans married 1) Christiaen Barentsen Van Horn, the > immigrant > and 2) Laurens Andriessen Van Buskirk, the immigrant, and I am > descended from a son from both of Jannetje's marriages. > > Ethel Kay Konight > > > >