Very interesting, Marlene. My mother lives 3 miles Van Hornesville, New York, obviously settled by Van Hornes. I always assumed they were Dutch or Palatine--most settlers in the area (Herkimer County, in the Mohawk Valley, New York) were Palatine. It is fascinating that they may have been Danish. Barbara ----- Original Message ---- From: Marleen Van Horne <msvnhrn@jps.net> To: dutch-colonies@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 11:20:11 AM Subject: [DUTCH-COLONIES] How I found out I was DANISH, not Dutch Literally, for centuries, my family has boasted about their Dutch ancestors. You can understand my consternation when I found the 1692 marriage record for my immigrant ancestor, Matthys Cornelissen, on Donna Rittenbatt's website, and he was discribed as "van Jutland". This is the only place where that discription of my ancestor appears, but his descendants took the surname Van Horne. It happens that on the northern tip of Jutland, there is a town and an administrative district named Horne. Unfortunately, as near as I have been able to determine, there are no records from this area for the period of time he might have lived there. Analysis of the haplogroup information fromm the yDNA of descendants of Matthys Cornelissen indicates he belonged to a specific clade---I1a-AS12. This is one of the Anglo Saxon types that with others makes up the majority of the male population of Denmark. Marleen Van Horne ------------------------------- 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