By Googling on "Dutch English Name Equivalents" and similar search phrases or terms, one will find many lists of English-Dutch name pairs like Charity-Geertje and many of these pairs are *not* intuitive. However, accepting the validity of these pairs is no different than accepting established old-fashioned nicknames for names that are not always intuitive to us now like Polly for Mary, Patty for Martha, etc. Recognizing English-Dutch name pairs can provide important clues for solving long-standing mysteries. For one of my favorite examples, please click on the link below to see how recognizing Metje as the Dutch equivalent of Martha (instead of Margaret!) was critical to identifying Martha, the wife Of Obadiah-2 Wilkins (William-1) and John-2 Griggs (John-1), as the daughter of John-1 and Ann (Spicer) Lake, all of Gravesend, Kings County, New York. http://www.perrystreeter.com/griggs.pdf For my unsolved "cold cases" for Hunterdon County and beyond, please see... http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~streeter/questions.htm Somehow your Dutch cousin, Perry Perry Streeter (perry@streeter.com) www.perry.streeter.com