Hi all When I started my genealogy in 1990 I never imagined Dutch ancestry or how long my ancestors had been here. I was amazed. I told my mother and cousin I was going to look into our genealogy and my mother contributed my gr grandmother's will (my father's side) and cousin Marie gave me the names of a set of gr gr grandparents names and the fact that gr gr grandfather was in the Civil War and died not from gun shots but disease and was buried at Gettysburg (my mother's side). She had a Bible page with the names of children of gr gr grandparents. She was partially correct in her facts. It was also hard to convince her otherwise:-) So armed with my gr grandmother's (Sarah Ann Squire) will. I ventured to the library in Coshocton Ohio where my father was born and his father and his father. It didn't take me too long to find her marriage record and find she was Sarah Ann Snedeker and who her father and mother were, Garrett Porter Snedeker and Ruth Ann McCoy. OK, I thought, German. I was used to lots of Germans on my material side. Lots of Germans in Ohio so no surprise. Found lots of info on various ancestors Then went to other counties to look up maternal ancestors who weren't too far away. So many new names and things to think about. One day after I was back home in California, I was at a Family History Center looking up something and I overheard the director of the library say to a researcher that Garrett was a Dutch name. Imagine! Might have taken me bit to find out otherwise. Snedeker is indeed a German name but I found later they had lived in the Netherlands for some time and had become Dutch. Someone was kind enough to photocopy parts of a book on Snedekers in SLC and I now own a copy of a revised book. This book helped me solve a problem with someone who married a Snedeker. I also have French Huguenots in the Dutch Colonies. Barbara Southern California