Dutch Ancestors

“Forgotten American patriot” Adrian Van Der Donck: Who the heck was he?? For starters, he was a known associate of Gary’s 9th great-grandunc...

In June 2023, my daughter Lara & I (Gary) were in Brooklyn & briefly viewed a few Dutch ancestral locations, including the Jan Marte...

In June 2023, I had an opportunity to visit the Brooklyn Museum, to have a distant look at gravestones inside the Flatbush Dutch Reformed Ch...

Ancestor Margaret Williamson McCreary (b. 1835, Ohio) was nearly all Dutch, plus she had some French Huguenot ancestors who...

My 8th great-grandfather Roelof Martense Schenck (b. abt. 1619) & his brother Jan had many descendants in America, including this yDNA i...

Gary’s 7th great-grandparents include Sarah Teunis Van Middlesward/Middlesworth & Jan Brokaw, who were married in 1704 in Somerset Count...

French Huguenot ancestor David Demarest was born in 1620, married in Zeeland Province Netherlands, & settled in Bergen County, New Jers...

My autosomal DNA has now been tested in 2 labs. One of the labs provides the crucial chromosome data, but the other does not. Data from all...

In the Demarest yDNA Project, Haplogroup J1, at www.familytreedna.com/public/Demarest/default.aspx?section=ycolorized there are 2 kits from ...

Descendants from our ancestor Roelof Martense Schenck (b. 1619) are many, and there is a vast amount of information found on the I...