--part1_f8113dfc.245e0f05_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_f8113dfc.245e0f05_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <PADUTCHgenONLY-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-za01.mx.aol.com (rly-za01.mail.aol.com [172.31.36.97]) by air-za04.mail.aol.com (v59.4) with SMTP; Sun, 02 May 1999 15:56:53 -0400 Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.27]) by rly-za01.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id PAA01726; Sun, 2 May 1999 15:56:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA18950; Sun, 2 May 1999 12:55:53 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 12:55:53 -0700 (PDT) From: JYoung6180@aol.com Message-ID: <dda70620.245e0790@aol.com> Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 15:54:56 EDT Subject: Re: [PADUTCHgenONLY-L] "Black dutch" Old-To: mthomas@si-net.com, PADUTCHgenONLY-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 13 Resent-Message-ID: <qLhNrD.A.5nE.J3KL3@bl-11.rootsweb.com> To: PADUTCHgenONLY-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: PADUTCHgenONLY-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <PADUTCHgenONLY-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/10416 X-Loop: PADUTCHgenONLY-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: PADUTCHgenONLY-L-request@rootsweb.com In a message dated 5/2/99 3:48:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mthomas@si-net.com writes: > There is an article in American Genealogy Magazine (Vol. 12, No. 1) titled > "In Search of the Black Dutch". The gist is that the term "Black Dutch" > was used to describe any dark-skinned American of European/Native American > descent. My deceased father-in-law was from Arkansas and used the term to > describe his own heritage. Hope this helps. Melissa- You will find as many definitions of "Black Dutch" as you will find articles. No two people (or articles) can agree on the meaning. Some insist the term applies to Germanic people who intermarried with the nomadic Sephardic Jews, others tell of Native American intermarriages with the PADUTCH settlers, or a Spanish involvement, and on and on; but the bottom line is that no one has ever been able to substantiate what the term means with a pedigree that is provable. I have found the term used more frequently to refer to Germanic immigrants--usually PADutchmen-whose descendants moved to the South--but like everything else connected to the "Black Dutch" that isn't *always* the case. :-) Joan ==== PADUTCHgenONLY Mailing List ==== If you have concerns or problems with the list, send an e-mail off to Joan at JYoung6180@aol.com --part1_f8113dfc.245e0f05_boundary--