This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3dB.2ACI/6180.1 Message Board Post: Do you mean Pa. Dutch/German or Holland Dutch? The Pa. Dutch emigrated primarily from the Rhine River Valley of SW Germany, NE France(Alsace), and Switzerland between abt. 1700 and 1820. And there are a few hundred particular surnmanes and their anglicized variation from this region common among the Pa. Dutch. I have a few books I could look up your names in question. David Peters