This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: VanDoren, VanDoorn Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Hi.2ADE/230.290 Message Board Post: My mother is a VanDoren and I have been working on our tree. I have gotten back to Pieter Narne VanDoorn b. abt 1609 in Holland. Then as follows - Christian Pietersen VanDoorn b. abt 1635 in Germany, Jacob Christian VanDoorn b. Oct 1668 in New Utrecht, Kings County NY, Christian Jacob VanDoorn b Aug. 11 1699 in Hillsdale Nj and all the way up to my mother. Maybe there is a connection with someone. I know Christian Jacob had 17 children so anything is possible. Shannon shay_72@msn.com