Mark, There was no significant Dutch population here at that time. There were a few families of Dutch descent, such as the Gunsallus family (through their maternal ancestry) in the Howard area, the DeLong family and the DeHaas family, also down that way. There was no organized Dutch community. Justin At 09:14 PM 1/8/2007, you wrote: >Hi all, >Several people have explained to me, Pennsylvania Dutch, more of >Germanic group and others not so much immigrants from the Netherlands. >Since mine came from Netherlands and settled in Centre, would there >have been a Dutch population at that time? > >Thank you, >Mark > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Sent: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 7:53 AM >Subject: [PACENTRE] Pennsylvania Dutch counties > > >My opinion is that it is somewhat risky to name certain counties as being >"Pennsylvania Dutch" -- that is, risking slighting people of "Pennsylvania >Dutch" heritage who were in counties other than those cited. I suspect the >Pennsylvania Deutsch (German/Swiss/Huguenot) have an influence in just about >every county of the state and also those counties in Maryland >which border on >the >Mason-Dixon line. > >My Houtz, Garbrick, Shuey, Ziegler, Shower(s)/Schauer, Etters, Loesch, >Holderman, Shearer/Scherer, and Waltenberger lines were all of "Pennsylvania >Dutch" ancestry, settling in Centre County. Many of them spoke German as >indicated by some of the census records. This would have been >"German" of the > >Pennsylvania Deutsch dialect, of course. > >It is my guess that the Pennsylvania Dutch have left their imprint just >about everywhere in the state -- although, admittedly, there are >some counties >that are more Pennsylvania Dutch than others. > >Fred Houts in MN > >------------------------------- >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 >________________________________________________________________________ >Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and >security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from >across the web, free AOL Mail and more. > >------------------------------- >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

Ok, Thanks for that Justin! Mark in Kansas -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 7:29 AM Subject: Re: [PACENTRE] Centre county in early 1800 Mark, There was no significant Dutch population here at that time. There were a few families of Dutch descent, such as the Gunsallus family (through their maternal ancestry) in the Howard area, the DeLong family and the DeHaas family, also down that way. There was no organized Dutch community. Justin At 09:14 PM 1/8/2007, you wrote: >Hi all, >Several people have explained to me, Pennsylvania Dutch, more of >Germanic group and others not so much immigrants from the Netherlands. >Since mine came from Netherlands and settled in Centre, would there >have been a Dutch population at that time? > >Thank you, >Mark > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Sent: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 7:53 AM >Subject: [PACENTRE] Pennsylvania Dutch counties > > >My opinion is that it is somewhat risky to name certain counties as being >"Pennsylvania Dutch" -- that is, risking slighting people of "Pennsylvania >Dutch" heritage who were in counties other than those cited. I suspect the >Pennsylvania Deutsch (German/Swiss/Huguenot) have an influence in just about >every county of the state and also those counties in Maryland >which border on >the >Mason-Dixon line. > >My Houtz, Garbrick, Shuey, Ziegler, Shower(s)/Schauer, Etters, Loesch, >Holderman, Shearer/Scherer, and Waltenberger lines were all of "Pennsylvania >Dutch" ancestry, settling in Centre County. Many of them spoke German as >indicated by some of the census records. This would have been >"German" of the > >Pennsylvania Deutsch dialect, of course. > >It is my guess that the Pennsylvania Dutch have left their imprint just >about everywhere in the state -- although, admittedly, there are >some counties >that are more Pennsylvania Dutch than others. > >Fred Houts in MN > >------------------------------- >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 >________________________________________________________________________ >Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and >security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from >across the web, free AOL Mail and more. > >------------------------------- >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 ------------------------------- 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 ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more.