This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/1184.2 Message Board Post: I read that the Pennsylvania Dutch are actually German--not Dutch. Maybe that other response you received explains how that misnaming happened! We have the same problem in the line I'm tracing. I'm finding German instead of Dutch in a Pennsylvania Dutch family. It corresponds with what I just mentioned but confused me until I finally read that tidbit. Susan