This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wogaman, Shewman, Holderman, Will, Garverich, (with all the various spellings) Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3dB.2ACI/6011.2 Message Board Post: I am enclosing a web site that can give you some background on the "Pennsylvania Dutch." When I was a youngster my grandparents always referred to us as being Pa. Dutch. I thought for a long time that it was the nationality that I was. When I grew older, I continued to pester my parents as to where we came from and then found out that "Pennsylvania Dutch" was the name tagged on to different german speaking nationalities that settled in Pennsylvania. Take a look at the web site. I think you'll find it very interesting. http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/padutch/faqs/dutch.html