In a message dated 26/10/2003 11:04:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > .Was Holland ever a part of Germany? > I think one has to be careful believing family stories about ancestors being from Holland. They may have been described at one time as being "Pennsylvania Dutch" which doesn't mean they were from Holland but from Germany. "Dutch" is an anglicization of "Deutsch" which means German. I have ancestors who I am sure moved from Germany to PA, then to Berkeley County. One family tree has them being from Holland. Nancy Pundsack

Re the question "was Holland ever part of Germany?" There are severl things to think about here. The direct answer is yes. Just remember WW2. There were territorial conquests over the centuries. Remember too, many emigrants from Germany departed through Dutch ports; viz Amsterdam. Sometimes they stayed in Holland for several weeks or months before finally embarking. When they arrived in the US they were recorded as having come from Holland.