This is a reminder, I still have three gift certificates available. These certificates must be used by 31 December. MSV Again this holiday season, Family Tree DNA has made available, to the Van Horne yDNA Project, four gift certificates for yDNA [men] testing, and two gift certificates for mtDNA [women] testing The gift certificates will be made available on a first come first serve basis to anyone with the Van Horn / Van Horne surname. They may be applied to the cost of testing, for anyone, who registers, to be tested, for the first time, through 31 December 2006 The project currently has six participants, one a descendant of Christian Barentsen, four descendants of Matthys Cornelissen and one whose ancestor is not yet determined. It is the project objective to identify the genetic lines of the three immigrants to New Netherlands whose descendants took the Van Horn / Van Horne surname, Jan Cornelissen, Christian Barentsen and Matthys Cornelissen. According to George Olin Zabriskie’s articles in TAG, Jan Cornelissen had two sons, Cornelius Jansen and Joris Jansen, and Christian Barentsen had three sons, Barent Christiansen, Cornelis Christiansen and Johannes Christansen. You MUST be a male in direct line of male descent from your Van Horn / Van Horne ancestor. We would very much like to have descendants of these five men participate in the project, however, all men with this surname are welcome to participate. The two gift certificates for mtDNA testing are available to any woman whose maiden name is Van Horn / Van Horne. If you are interested, please write to me personally at [email protected] In the interest of not causing a ruckus on a mail list or message board, I WILL NOT respond to messages posted there. Happy Holidays, Marleen Van Horne Van Horne yDNA Project Manager