----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave & Liz DuBois" <ddubois@sinclair.net> To: <dutch-colonies@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 4:20 PM Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] How I discovered I have Dutch ancestry >I sort of stumbled onto my Dutch ancestry! My father passed away in > 1989, leaving his odd collection of genealogical notes. My mother asked > me to "tie up the loose ends". At first I flatly refused, but then she > hit me with, "Well, I'll just throw it all away then!" and I caved in, > took the two huge boxes of his jumbled papers and spent months sorting. >>From what my mother had said and what I vaguely remembered my father and > his mother saying, that side of the family was English, with a bit of > Scotch and Irish thrown in for variety. > > Months of sorting and doing a little bit of loose ends tying, I found > more English, Irish and Scotch. As I worked on the WISNER line > (originally from Switzerland) I soon discovered a number of Dutch > connections in New York and New Netherland...BERTHOLF, VANDEREBOGART/D, > TERHUNE. One name led to another...a good Scotsman, MAXWELL, in Elmira, > NY married VANSTEENBERG. > > Then my mother sent me all of her genealogy notes since "You are doing > such a great job with Dad's!" She was convinced they were all Scotch > and German, with maybe an Irish line in there. They were, but her LOTT > line (which she thought was German and which I can't seem to trace back > to anybody!) had married a KIP. Within a year I discovered that my > mother and father were cousins. More research over the years has > connected them as 9th cousins descended from Nicasius deSILLE, 9th > cousins once removed descended from Jan Jansen SCHEPMOES, and 10th > cousins descended from Cornelis [VanDerHOEVEN] and Geertje VanFULPEN. > > But it doesn't stop there! Nearly 10 years after my father's death, my > mother remarried. Her new husband knew little of his father's side of > the family thanks to a divorce when he was very young. He asked me to > do some searching. Much to his delight, I found him a half sister. The > bonus for me was that she had a little bit of family genealogy to > share. From her meager notes, I was able to find that my father and my > step-father were cousins! They are 8th cousins once removed descended > from VANSTEENBERG and they are 9th cousins 3 times remove descended from > Jan Janszen VanLANGEDYCK! Small world...all Dutch related! > > I eventually discovered Dutch ancestors on my husband's side of the > family, since DuBois was in New York from about 1660 and married into > several Dutch lines. And while my husband and I are also distant > cousins, as is our daughter and her husband, those are all English > connections in New England. > > Liz > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >