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

Hi Marleen! Are these certificates the $15, $20 & $30 off the tests? I have finally gotten interested in starting the Titus DNA project and saw your message. I connected with World Families who is a person who now handles the websites for Family Tree and he also is offering these certificates (if the same). I think I can still use Family Tree for the project websites or World Families but I haven't spoken to Family Tree since July about it. The guy over on World Families will help with the whole website and project until I can take it over. I have a male descendant ready to be tested from my branch! Then I need to get out the word, like you have, to the PA Bucks email group and we have a Dutch Titus email group. I hope to get one specific branch to test for me so that I can verify a specific parent. If only different branches get tested at least it will verify that I am in the right Dutch Titus group but not help me with my parent dilemma. Did you go to the genealogy seminar in Texas (I believe it was)? Let me know if you hear of any in northern CA or Nevada and maybe I could go to one. So. Calif is 8 - 9 hours for me and with an 8 yr old, not too easy for me to arrange. Talk to you later. Barb Titus Marleen Van Horne <[email protected]> wrote: 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 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com