This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Verkennes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TJB.2ACI/971.1003.1095.1098.1.2 Message Board Post: I also have the same information about the Verkennes. Kaspar (Casper) was my great great grandfather. Born 2/17/1847 Limburg, Netherlands to Jan Arnold Verkennis (B: 8/25/1816, Obbricht, Holland) and Gertrude Swillens (B: 3/11/1817).