I, too, owe knowledge of my Dutch ancestry to Dorothy Koenig. I always knew that my great-grandmother's last name was Van Wyck. I also knew she had been born in Canada, although her family had moved to Michigan after the Civil War. She and my greatgrandfather met and married there, but subsequently followed the Quaker migration to Whittier CA. Both of these ggrandparents eventually died in Santa Monica where I live now. Then I met a Canadian cousin from an announcement in the Rootsweb review that led me to a messsage board. This cousin had researched our Van Wyck line in the Canadian vital records, so I posted what I had gotten from her as a query on the Dutch Colonies list. Dorothy replied with enough information that I could trace the rest of my Van Wyck line back to the immigrant, as well as a hint that I might be descended from John Alden and Pricilla Mullens which indeed has turned out to be the case. From there I was able to find links to my other Dutch colonial lines as well as the Seabury family who founded the Episcopal Church at the time of the Revolution. My Samuel Van Wyck had married the daughter of Wert Banta, a notorious United Empire Loyalist hell raiser, so I assume that is why the family was resettled to Canada after the Revolutionary War where they remained for several generations. My grandfather had always talked about his Pennsylvania Dutch heritage which I had always assumed was my ggrandmother Van Wyck's line, but I later found out that the Pennsylvania Dutch he was talking about might have been my Dawdy/Swayze line, which is actually my ggrandmother Van Wyck's mother's line. So now when I take the Van Wyck Parkway out of JFK or when I learned that the first mayor of NYC was a Van Wyck, it's fun to be able to tie that information into my family's history. And so it goes, Leslie Hope