I have some Tietsoort ancestry: WILLEM ABRAHAMSE TIETSOORT, who was the first person with this name in America. Heres a link to some biographical information that was helpful to me: http://www.teachout.org/du/013.html In previus pages on this site, more variations of the name are given. Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: KarolHugh@aol.com Date: Saturday, May 7, 2005 8:42 pm Subject: [GREENE COUNTY] Teetshorn > I ran across the name Thietshoorn while looking at my cd of New > York Births > & Baptisms. This was for a Rebekka married to Juriann Kwik (also > with various > spellings). In other records her name was spelled Tietsoort, > Tietsoord, > Titsso, and Tizzo. There may be others, but it looks like > Teetshorn definitely > could have started out as Tietsoort.