I'm having trouble figuring out how to use this website. Could you post the results for the Van Arnhem's to this list? Thanks Susan Van Orman Claggett -----Original Message----- From: jroguetech@gmail.com [mailto:jroguetech@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 11:43 PM To: vannorman@rootsweb.com Subject: [VANNORMAN] Holland resource Here's a resource that shows some Van Arnhem's in Holland, going back as far as the 1600's. http://bhic.nl/index.php?id=10004 This has resources for New Amsterdam, New Holland: http://bhic.nl/index.php?id=193 (enter "Nieuw Amsterdam-New York" as Plaats) Does anyone have other resources for tracing the Van Arnhem's in Holland? ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VANNORMAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

May I point out again that "Van Arnhem", at least as it applies to the records of Jan Dircks Van Arnhem who married Sarah Theunis, is clearly a descriptor, not a surname. It means he was "from" Arnhem; perhaps born there, perhaps raised there, perhaps lived there for a while before he came to New Amsterdam. Half a dozen bits collectively suggest to me he probably wasn't born in Arnhem. Among them was a scan several years ago through the Netherlands indices suggested by jroguetech in which I could find no one who looked very much like our Jan Dircks. (Didn't find a Sarah Theunis, either.) Jan Dirck's children didn't begin using the Van Arnhem surname until around 1695, 14 years after the last record that mentions their father (who was still using the presumed patronymic "Dircksen"). In other words, for more than 30 years after 1664 the family was NOT named Van Arnhem. (Please don't ask why they eventually adopted a surname their father never seems to have used. It's another of many things about the early family that don't seem to make any sense.) --pete ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Claggett" <claimtofame@claggett6.com> To: <vannorman@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 9:50 PM Subject: Re: [VANNORMAN] Holland resource > > I'm having trouble figuring out how to use this website. Could you post > the > results for the Van Arnhem's to this list? Thanks > > Susan Van Orman Claggett > -----Original Message----- > From: jroguetech@gmail.com [mailto:jroguetech@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 11:43 PM > To: vannorman@rootsweb.com > Subject: [VANNORMAN] Holland resource > > Here's a resource that shows some Van Arnhem's in Holland, going back as > far > as the 1600's. > > http://bhic.nl/index.php?id=10004 > > This has resources for New Amsterdam, New Holland: > http://bhic.nl/index.php?id=193 > (enter "Nieuw Amsterdam-New York" as Plaats) > > Does anyone have other resources for tracing the Van Arnhem's in Holland? > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VANNORMAN-request@rootsweb.com 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 > VANNORMAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >