Hello Listers, I've got 4 remarks/offers/questions: 1. an offer to assist in translating out of Dutch 2. a Dutch genealogy portal 3. My surnames 4. a question to Andrea 1. I'm willing -as a native Dutch speaker- to assist anyone who has got something to translate out of the Dutch. 2. An interesting Dutch genealogy portal is to be found on: http://genealogie.pagina.nl/ Quite a lot sites are available in English as well, otherwise see 1. 3. I hit the Brick Wall at -Casper HONVLIJ, born in AERDIJN (ARDENNES) who married in LEIDEN on 16-05-1665 to Jeanne/Jannetge ROBBERTS. -and his brother Cornelis HONVLIJ (HOEWLEE, HONVLY), ("uyt het Lant van Luycq": i.e. the country of Liège) who married 22-08-1664 to Annetge Claes HENGST. The variants of the surname are: HONUILLES, HONULE, HOUVELE, HONVLÉ, HOVLÉ, ONFLÉ, HONULY, ONVLY, ONVLEY, HONVLIJ, HOUWLEE, HONVLEE, HOUVLE, HOUVLEE, HOUVLY, HOMVLEE, GONVLIJ, ONVLEE, HONVLEY, OMVLE, ONVLE, OMVLEE, HONVLIE. 4. My question to Andrea: could you please look up my surname(s) in the GRD? And does anyone else have a connection? Thanks very much, Fred Omvlee MONNICKENDAM, The Netherlands