There's a thick book, published in 1916, on the Schermerhorn family. Everybody in this country with the name is descended from Jacob Janse, who came here about 1638 (I'll get corrected, I know), and therefore is a cousin. (Unless they immigrated after 1916.) And that book dropped the lines that daughtered out. So it includes my ggg grandmother Neltje Schermerhorn, b. 1781, but none of her Bastion children (or even her illegitimate Van Slyke daughter). I can't even guess how many Schermerhorn cousins I have, let alone those who dropped sylables here or there. -- "Leslie Hope" <leslie@lahope.com> wrote: Jean, Although George H. W. Bush does have some New Amsterdam ancestors, most of his ancestry is New England. He has quite a few who came on the Mayflower or who were in Leiden with the Separatists and came a bit later. His ancestry is posted online at several sites. I don't think his Bush line is Dutch, but check it out for yourself at the following link: http://www.wargs.com/political/bush.html leslie -----Original Message----- From: dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jean Bout Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 7:13 PM To: dutch-colonies@rootsweb.com Subject: [DUTCH-COLONIES] George H. W. Bush In George W. H. Bush's 1988 campaign for presidency speech in New York City, he said that since his ancestors arrived in America in 1600s, he had over 10,000 cousins. He is right. (When I entered college, I saw some students's surnames that belong to my Dutch ancestors. I got in contact with them. Violà, they, indeed, are my distant cousins! ) What is the original spelling of George W. H. Bush's surname? Is it Dutch? Jean Boutcher JeanBout@Juno.com JeanBoute@Yahoo.Com Doris Waggoner writes: Just goes to show everybody's related to everybody. Does that make our work fruitless? I didn't mean that. Doris ------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- 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