Dear fellow subscribers, I discovered I had Dutch ancestry from a posting by Jason Gervase. My maiden name is Kent and I always assumed it was English ( you know what happens when you assume?) Anyway after Jason's posting, he said he had information ( which by the way he has never been able to share with me )that Elyas Kindt was the father of Simeon Kindt/Kent . What a surprise. My Simon Kent was married to a Mariye Spier. For years now I've been researching the Kindt name. I find a Jacobus Kindt in New Amsterdam in 1690 and my Elyas would have been born around 1670 so could Jacobus be his father? I can find no Kindt's on passenger lists so it's still a mystery. I would appreciate it if subscribers would keep an eye open when they do their research for Kindts. I'm assuming (again) that he was Dutch and not German. Nancy Kent Thoben