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WikiTree's New Netherland Settlers Project is our collaborative effort to develop and maintain high-quality genealogy information for the people of New Netherland and their descendants.

New Netherland was the 17th-century Dutch colony in eastern North America (mostly in the modern states of New York and New Jersey) controlled by the Dutch West India Company.  Many New Netherland settlers were Dutch, but quite a few of them came from other European places such as Germany, Scandinavia, France, England, Scotland, and the Mediterranean region; some were enslaved Africans; and indigenous Native Americans were part of their community. The scope of the New Netherland Settlers Project currently includes New Netherland descendants born as late as 1776, if they were part of a community where the Dutch culture of New Netherland was prevalent.

If you are interested in participating with this project, please answer this post to join us. In your answer, please tell us about why you are interested in New Netherland (include names of any specific ancestors or New Netherland surnames you are interested in) and tell us how you expect to contribute to the project.

Project members will receive the New Netherland Settlers Project badge on their profiles.

This project is only for WikiTree members. If you are not yet a member of WikiTree, please join the WikiTree community before requesting membership here. See Help:How to Use WikiTree to get started.

Also, we ask project members to:

1. Add new_netherland to your followed tags.
2. After you have been accepted into the project, request to join our Google Group, and include your name and Wikitree ID in your request.
3. Add the category [[Category:New_Netherland_Settlers_Project]] including the brackets, to your biography.

If you have questions about New Netherland or the project, you may find answers on the FAQ page or the New Netherland Settlers Project page. See our advice on reliable sources on the New Netherland Settlers Reliable Sources page and see additional project resources and sourcing advice on our New Netherland Genealogy Resources category. You may even find your ancestors on our Progenitors and Immigrants of the New Netherlands Settlers (though it is quite incomplete!)

PS - Please ANSWER in this G2G thread.

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I am interested in joining the New Netherlands project. I am Landsman-55. My Grandmother was Edna Jane Van Benschoten. I found a lot of my Dutch ancestors back to the Vignes due to the efforts of many of you who traced the Van Benschoten (Bunschoten) line and the first boy born in New Netherlands. I would love to learn more and be part of this project. — L Landsman (Landsman-55)

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Hello! I would like to join. My New Netherland family that I am researching currently are: Burghardt, Van Hoesen, Van Wie, Van Valkenburg, Klauw, Slingerland, Santvoord, Middaugh, Bergen, and Rapalje. I would like to contribute in helping research not only my families but others as well. I love tying things together and digging into things to solve mysteries and make connections. I am a mom, so I research in bits here and there, but I do love focusing on chunks at a time and am working hard to go back through my chart and document and re-verify everything that I have found or have been given by the previous generation of researchers in my family. I also recently found a New Netherlands connection in my husband's family. ~Sharman Rice (Lutz-3115)

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Hello!  I am so excited to see this group and would love to join.  I have only recently found out that our family history reaches back this far, and I have become obsessed learning as much as I can about our roots.  My name is Julena Johnson Doudt, and my ancestors include the Crankheyte, Syboutzen, Ryder, deLint, Pieters, etc.  I have even found out that one of them was included in the 60 or so people who managed to escape the Massacre at Naarden.  (I am humbled by knowing that I would not exist if he hadn't escaped!)

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Me please if you don't mind ,

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Hello! I’m Laurie Cable Olsson, Cable-115. I was fascinated to discover my Dutch ancestors while researching several years ago. Some of them include Romeyn, Van Dyke, Wyckoff, Haegen, Dirckse, Janse.

I would love to collaborate with others on improving our ancestors profiles.

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I am working on processing the backlog of requests that were posted as comments. [Folks: Please post your request by using the Answer this post button.]

A hearty welcome to the New Netherland Settlers project to John Diefenbach, Nathaniel Eaton, Kristin Robinson, Mitchell Wilcox.

You all have the badge now.

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More welcomes to new project members Jan Wink, Jared Crayk, Julena Doudt, and Laurie (Cable) Olsson. We look forward to your contributions.

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Thank you very much, Ellen! Looking forward to participating in this project!

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Hello, my name is Dawn Stansell (Harrold)  I'm very curious about this group as I have relatives who were in New York area in the time of this period.  My 9th removed Great grandmother was Elizabeth De Graff, born in 1697, who married my Great grandfather Nicholas Stansell ,born in 1669, in 1710 in New York. Her parents were Claas De Graff and Elisabeth Brouwer.If eligible I would love to join.

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Welcome to Dawn.

Answer 1

greetibgs from indiana''  following another rabbit hole,, seekink verification  my gg grandfather whitney gilbert "aka squire" purportedly born quebec prior 1800.  drouin church records yet to show squire or whitney but many gilberts st lawrence river valleyarea  particulary trois rivers, neuville beaucherville ,berthersville etc, but brick wall thus far. i am 85 yrs young and time short to fill in blanks Thanks  wayne-btown at comcast.net  wiki 17569 and droin instt member

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Hi, Wayne. I wish this project could help you out, but I fear that for you it's a rabbit hole not worth following. "Gilbert" was not a New Netherland name (although sometimes men with the first name of "Gysbert" were called "Gilbert" in the English-language community), and the project doesn't deal with time periods after 1776. 

Unfortunately, it's very, very difficult to research the late 1700s and early 1800s in New York... I did a little searching for you and confirmed that there were at least a few people named Gilbert scattered in the state in those decades, but that's hardly a clue for you.

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Here is my family- John W. Masten born in about 1600 in Ormesby, Yorkshire, Norfolk, England married to Johannes (Rebecca) Van Aaken born in about January 1, 1600 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland. She died in June,1648.  They had a son, John William Masten II, my 8th Great Grandfather, born on February 1, 1628 in Ormsby, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom and died on April 6, 1671 in Flushing, Queens, New York Married to Djevertje Jans VAn Langedyck on October 27, 1650 in New Amsterdam, New York. Do I qualify to be a New Netherland Settlers?  Lois Kay Farnham (Denaut) at loisdenaut@gmail.com

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Hi, Lois. You do seem to have New Netherland ancestry -- and I see from your profile page that you and I share a bunch of New England ancestors.

Thank you for joining this project. I hope that membership helps you learn more about New Netherland and your ancestors, and that you will pitch in to help improve the quality of all of our content for the people and history of this time and place.

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Hello. My name is Bill Knowles and I have many ancestors that were New Netherland Settlers, Starting with John Rosencrans and Marie Roosa. This line goes back through Roosa, Shepmoes, Van Etten, Decker, Kierstad, Dirks, Westercamp,all the way back to Anneke Jans. I notice that many of the profiles need work and I would enjoy working on those that fall into my direct lines. as well as co-latteral lines. I would like to join in as a member of the New Netherland Settlers group.

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This is a wonderful group

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Hi, Bill. Thank you for joining this project. It's great to have experienced researchers in our midst. I hope that membership helps you continue to learn more about New Netherland and your ancestors, and that you will pitch in to help improve the quality of all of our content for the people and history of this time and place.

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Hi, Jan. You've identified a couple of popular early ancestors -- you are likely to meet a number of distant cousins here.  

Thank you for joining this project. I hope that membership helps you learn more about New Netherland and your ancestors, and that you will pitch in to help improve the quality of all of our content for the people and history of this time and place. I suggest that your experience here will be most productive if you fill in at least some of your recent ancestry so you can connect back from the people closest to you to the people in your distant past.

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Hello my name is Lelia Hilbert Dowd my Wiki Trees are Hilbert-193 and Baylor-190, and Gaston-947. I would like to be involved with the New Netherland Settlers Project having relatives that have settled here Ida (VanArsdalen) Gaston and her family coming to New Jersey.  My grand mother had told me stories of the Dutch when I was little and now I have found the connection. Thank you!

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Hi, Lelia. It's great that you have connected to the roots of your family stories. Thank you for joining this project. I hope that membership helps you learn more about New Netherland and your ancestors, and that you will pitch in to help improve the quality of all of our content for the people and history of this time and place.

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I'd like to join this project. I am the descendant of https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/184113059/benjamin-jacobsz-hasten. He was the son of Hendricks-139 and De_Beauvois-1. I've searched a lot on Wikitree with varying name spellings, and I am pretty sure he is not already in Wikitree.

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Hi, Suzanne. Thank you for joining this project. I agree that your ancestor doesn't seem to be here, so you have an opportunity before you to greatly improve WikITree coverage of your early ancestors.

I hope that membership helps you learn more about New Netherland and your ancestors, and that you will pitch in to help improve the quality of all of our content for the people and history of this time and place.

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I'm looking forward to adding this ancestor and learning more!

Answer 6

I am descended from Thys Barentsen and his Swaim descendants. I am descended from Richard and Penelope Stout. My late husband and our children are descended from Peter Clausen Wyckoff.

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Thank you for joining us in this project, Martha. I think you may find that there are some errors in and disputes about some of the "received genealogy" for some of your lines, but that might make the research more interesting. I hope that membership helps you learn more about New Netherland and your ancestors, and that you will pitch in to help improve the quality of all of our content for the people and history of this time and place.

Answer 7

My 3x-grandmother was Mary Deborah (Covenhoven) m. Abbott Atkinson, dau of Micjah Covenhoven and wife Mary; son of Micajah Covenhoven and Deborah Stanton;  son of Peter Conover & wife Elizabeth, son of Peter (d. will proved 21 Mar 1704 Gloucester Co. NJ) and wife Mary; son of Pieter Wolphertse Van Kouwenhoven b.abt 1614 and wife Aeltje Sibrants; son of Wolfert Gerritsz Van Kouwenhoven and Neeltje Jans.

See: New York Gen. & Biographical Record, v.70 1939 p.230-235, 353-356 & v.83 p.147-156. Cocheu, LC, The Van Kouwenhoven-Conover Family.

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Hi, Ann. Thank you for joining this project. 

It's good to see that you are familiar with the NYGBR article series on the "Conover" family. WikiTree has many profiles for the family, but I am sure there are many more family members we haven't profiled here yet. Note that our WikiTree and New Netherland Project naming conventions call for us to give people they names they were known by in life, which often means that the name variants on profiles here don't match the names found in published genealogies, where authors often standardize the names for simplicity.

I hope that project membership helps you learn more about New Netherland and your ancestors, and that you will pitch in to help improve the quality of all of our content for the people and history of this time and place.

Answer 8

Requesting to join this project. I am a new Wiki-Treer, also active on Ancestry.com, with an interest in my husband’s recently discovered New Netherlands ancestry which his family had lost track of over time.  Various lines in Albany, Schenectady, Hudson Valley-Kingston, Kinderhook, Poughkeepsie, etc. Names of interest are Marselis (& variants), Bradt, Brink, Heemstraat, Henion, Van Bremen, Rosekrans, Schoonmaker, Van Bremen.  Thank you, K. Price.

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Hi, K. Thank you for joining this project. I see several names in your husband's ancestry that also figure in my New Netherland ancestry, and I expect that you will find other distant cousins here.

I hope that membership helps you learn more about New Netherland and your ancestors, and that you will pitch in to help improve the quality of all of our content for the people and history of this time and place.

Answer 9

Hi there, I'm a descendant of Van_Dyck-270 so my main interest currently is connecting her to her father via this project as she's already under her mother's profile.

I know I have ancestors who were in New York prior to 1776 as well which would make me think there's a decent chance would have relatives or ancestors from New Netherland as well. In the interest of fleshing out several lines Vardeman-401 seems to have connection to Swedish and other immigrants who may have been part of New Netherland and who I'm descended from. Sexton-242 was in New York prior to 1700 as well as Brush-229's parents. This is the first project I've really joined and I should probably join others.

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Thanks for joining this project, Hunter! You do seem to have New Netherland roots. Your Vardemans probably should be added to Project: New Sweden -- and you may want to join that project, too.

I hope that project membership helps you learn more about New Netherland (and New Sweden) and your ancestors, and that you will pitch in to help improve the quality of all of our content for the people and history of this time and place.

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Sara (Kuijler) Bayeux - Kuijler-2 is my 7th great grandmother. I recently created her profile. Interestingly, I got to this point because Wikitree issued a suggestion in the newsletter in spring 2023 about researching maternal lines in celebration of Mother's Day and off I went. It was an amazing couple of days, during which time I discovered  an astonishing amount of information as I researched and created profiles, some of it right in the same city in Canada where I was born and lived in for decades, and also discovering some new (to me)  genealogy sources. I was stunned to find that I had ancestors from New York City not only Dutch but also French. My DNA test in 2022 had indicated this but I was really dubious. I see from Family Search that there are ancestors of Sara of Dutch descent who settled in New Netherland. I would like to assist the project in filling in gaps. I have a friend who is Dutch and I expect that she will be able to assist me with pronunciation of the Dutch names :-)  and might even be able to translate some things.

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Wow, Jane! Congratulations on your discoveries!

Thanks for joining this project. I hope that membership helps you learn more about New Netherland and your ancestors, and I look forward to seeing your contributions.

Answer 11

My name is Anthony Van Campen - please pardon the Anglicised form of the name. I think in a more classical style it would be Antony Darrelsen van Campen, but that is showing off. The family is descended from Gerret Jansen (Van Campen) van Campen (Van_Campen-17). I've been looking at my ancestors for years and I admit to wondering why they packed their bags and moved when and where they did.

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Thank you for joining this project, Anthony. Not many of us carry a last name that identifies a New Netherland immigrant ancestor, under any spelling.

I hope that project membership helps you learn more about New Netherland and your ancestors, and that you will pitch in to help improve the quality of all of our content for the people and history of this time and place.

Answer 12

Hi, I'm David Steffens steffens-98.  I have a descendent of Skillman and Beekman families that appear to have settled in what is now NY and NJ in the 1600s.  I would appreciate the opportunity to join this group

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Thanks for joining this project, David. I see that your lineage on WikiTree extends back to several New Netherland immigrants.

I hope that project membership helps you learn more about New Netherland and your ancestors, and that you will pitch in to help improve the quality of all of our content for the people and history of this time and place.

Answer 13

Hello,

My name is Christopher (Chris) Hoff (Hoff-1676) and I am interested in joining the New Netherlands Settlers Project. Johann Adam Hoff (grandson of Antonius Hoff) was my 8X Great Grandfather and sailed here with his family on the ship Fame in 1710. Family went up the Hudson and settled in West Camp (Saugerties) New York. Many people from the Netherlands were also on this area and married my ancestors giving me their DNA. I use wiki tree to build my tree and reference it against other sites such family search.com and was able to build my tree and trace roots of most of my parents ancestors. I recently had my DNA done thru Ancestry.com and have been able to put some pieces of the puzzle together with some dead ends that I had. One specific dead end I had was with my Fathers Great Grandfathers (James William Hoff) wife Juliette”Etta” Myer. I was able to find her mother Christina Margaret Schoonmaker and her father Levi Schoonmaker, his father David, and David’s father Edward Schoonmaker. .b 1736 in Kingston, NY and that was the end of line for what I could find. Thru Ancestry I was able to learn that Edward Schoonmakers wife was Elizabeth Whittaker, Elizabeth’s mother was Judickje J Beekman, Judickjes father was Thomas Beekman, Thomas’s mother was Aeitje Popinga, Aeitjes mother was Marijtje J Jonckers, Marijtjes father was Jan Conelissen Jonckers van Rotterdam (also known as Jan Jensen Jonckers) b. 1613 Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands and his father was Jan Cornelius Jonckers van Rotterdam (also know as Cornelius Richard Jonckers) b. 1587 Sint Maarten, Harenskarspel, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. I’ve traced a little further back but this is where I would like to definitively link myself to. Cornelius, at 27 married a 12 year old named Mergje Vermeulen and they produced the fore mentioned son Jan Jensen. I don’t know if his father ever had the chance to meet him as will be explained below.

We all know Henry Hudson sailed for the Dutch and in1609 sailed north on the Hudson. He returned to the Netherlands and in 1611 two  other vessels were sent to North America for further exploration. The Fortune with Capt Hendricks Christiansen and the Tyger with Capt  Block. They returned in 1612 and brought two Natives back with them. The ships were again sent to what was now New Nerherland, and the Tyger was moored along the Southwest tip of what is now Manhattan in an effort to trade goods with natives. The Tyger caught fir in November 1613 and burned. The Tyger was beached and they salvaged what they could. Over the course of the winter 1613 thru Spring 1614 the crew of the Tyger built a new ship and then navigated the East River discovering Long Island Sound and then Block Island for which Capt Block is the namesake. The ship Fortune was also in the area when the Tyger burned and presumably the  crew helped with construction of the new ship Onrust (Restless) and then they sailed north up the Hudson to Castle Island (now Westerlo Island) to where Fort Nassau( North River) was built. In 1916, while excavating for a subway line in NY, the remains of the Tyger were unearthed and a piece of it was displayed and eventually placed in the Museum of New York City in the Maritime Exhibits in the 1940’s and presumably is still there, planning a trip soon as I live only an hour away.

As mentioned earlier, Cornelius Jonckers may never have had the chance to meet his son Jan Jensen.

Jan Cornelius Jonckers van Rotterdam (Cornelius Richard Jonckers) died in Kings County (in the area known now as Brooklyn), New Netherlands on June 30, 1614.

The only conceivable explanation I can come up with is that he either was on the Tyger or the Fortune and during the process of building the new ship met with a mishap of natural causes or was killed or injured possibly felling trees or other related activity in which they did not have the ability to save him. The Tyger sailed thru to Long Island Sound but the Fortune sailed north and must have carried his remains to Castle Island where there was a French trading post as he is buried not far inland from there at Green Hill Cemetery Amsterdam, Montgomery Co., New York Plot 5 Row 3. The timing of his death and the fact that virtually no other Dutch were there yet makes Cornelius one of, if not the first (to my knowledge),  Dutch person to die and be buried in the new world.

His son Jan Jensen must have followed his fathers footsteps as he also made his way to the new world and made his home in Schenectady, NY. Jan was born March 5, 1613 and died young like his father on March 8, 1643 in Manhattan Beach, Kings Co., New Netherland. He is buried in the Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, Albany Co.,NY Plot 34 Row 5.  Jan Jensen built a home within the stockade of Schenectady which was burned to the foundation in the “Stockade Massacre” . The home was rebuilt and is now known as the Brouwer House and is on the National Registry as the oldest surviving house in Schenectady.

So, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it lol, unless I discover evidence thru this project to show me otherwise.

Thank you for taking the time to read this lengthy long winded account

Christopher John Hoff

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Hi, Christopher.

Thank you for joining this project. You seem to be well versed in your family's New Netherland lore, but I caution you that in this project we need to tie people's stories to reliably sourced evidence, which may not accord with the lore (sometimes sourced evidence is less colorful than the lore, but other times the sources reveal unexpectedly interesting stories).

I must say that I can't believe that your  ancestors were buried in Green Hill Cemetery and Albany Rural Cemetery in the early-mid 1600s. As I believe you are aware, Amsterdam was outside the range of Dutch settlement then, and certainly did not have established cemeteries. Green Hill Cemetery (where I also have relatives and ancestors) wasn't established until 1857. It's very possible that an ancestor's remains were reinterred there, but that would not be their original resting place. As for Albany Rural Cemetery, it was established in 1844, and many remains from earlier burials in Albany are recorded as having been moved there.

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I am interested in joining your group.  I have many Dutch families in my tree including, to name a few: Demarest, Van Houten, Van Ness, Vanderveer, Ryerson, Riker and of course my family Van Riper (Van Ripen, Van Rypen, Ryper).  I have been doing genealogy for many years now, but still consider myself a follower.  I am presently trying to get information from various books and articles, etc added to various families.  I have access to many family genealogies and books on states, towns, cities, that I am working, one or two at a time.  I have added and contributed to many PPP profiles.  Please let me know if this qualifies me for membership.

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Hi, Arthur. You are a project member. You've had the badge since 2019.

Answer 15

I am interested in joining the New Netherlands project. My ancestral names from New Netherlands include:  Bradt, Claasz, Cornelis, Cranfield, Crowell, Davidszen, Dret, Druitt, DuFour, Duret, Fry, Herdik, Jans, Jansz, Kirby, Landers, Livingston, Reverson, Teunisz, van der Karre, van Schaik, Woodin. 

Thanks, 

Mary Baker

Baker-13902

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Thanks for joining us in this project, Mary. I had noticed that you had created profiles for some of your New Netherland family, so I'm glad to see that you have joined us. Be advised, however, that not all of the names you list above are likely to have been New Netherlanders -- some of them appear to be other people who arrived in New York in the 1700s.

I hope that project membership helps you learn more about New Netherland and your ancestors, and that you will pitch in to help improve the quality of all of our content for the people and history of this time and place. Be sure to get acquainted with the policies and resources described on our project pages.

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Thanks for pointing out some of the names I listed are outside the scope of the New Netherlands project. I've edited the list.

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Hello.  My name is Nicole Johnson (Johnson-139438).  I was adopted as a baby and am researching my biological heritage.  I have confirmed both my birth mother and father.  The last name that brings me to this project is Van Horne (Horn, Hoorn) which comes from my maternal line.  My 2nd great-grandmother was Helen Josephine Van Horne (1867-1937).  Her parents were Bennett Porter Van Horne (1828-1903) and Jane Elizabeth Bennett (1828-1912).

I am new to WikiTree and have built a small tree.  I do have much to learn but am committed to making my tree as accurate as possible using the rules and guidelines set forth here.  I will be going through my few profiles to make sure they are not duplicates and I have my sources properly noted.

Thank you!

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Hi, Nicole. Congratulations on your great progress in finding your biological family!

Thank you for joining us in this project. Your Van Hornes do appear to be descended from New Netherlanders, but it is often is tricky to make those connections between the early-mid-1700s and the 1800s. I hope that project membership helps you learn more about your ancestors and New Netherland, and that you will pitch in to help improve the quality of all of our content for the people and history of this time and place. Be sure to get acquainted with the policies and resources described on our project pages.

Answer 17

I am Douglas Huestis (Huestis-166), cleared for pre-1700 work. My g-g-g-grandmother was Phoebe Mabie ( 1764-1811), whose antecedents have been very frustrating to trace. We are unsure of her parents, though she seems to have come from the Tappan, NY, region. One putative ancester seems to be Pieter Casparszen Mabie van Naerden (1604-1696), who lived in New Amsterdam and about whom there is documentation. I'd like to see whether Pieter connects with Phoebe, or  otherwise trace Pgoebe's family.

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Thanks for joining us in this project, Douglas. 

With the last name of Mabie, it is very likely that your Phoebe Mabie was a descendant of the family of the man represented in WikiTree as Pieter Casparszen Mabille (aka van Naerden).  It looks like your Phoebe is in WikiTree as https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mabee-93. One of the first things we need to be aware of in working on New Netherlanders and their descendants is that their name spellings can be wildly variable and the name search functions on WikiTree and other sites aren't very smart about recognizing that spellings like Mabie, Mabee, Maybee, Mebie, and Mabille are likely to be different versions of the very same name.

I hope that you will be editing her profile and others to include sourced details you have found, and that project membership helps you learn more about New Netherland and your ancestors.

Answer 18

I'm interested in the New Netherland Settlers project. I recently traced My Surname Ellsworth back to the early 17th Century. My people are from Canada. Looks like an interesting journey.

C. R. Ellsworth

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Congratulations on the discovery of your Ellsworth ancestors in New Netherland, Chris.

Thank you for joining us in this project. I hope that project membership helps you learn more about your ancestors and New Netherland, and that you will pitch in to help improve the quality of all of our content for the people and history of this time and place.

Answer 19

Hi, my name is John Winner. New  Netherlands ancestry on my fathers side includes the surnames: Winne (final r added in the 1800s), Sip, Toers, van Reype, Spier, van Winkel, Vreeland, Rapalje, van Neste and a few others. I am looking to add more sources to current ancestors as well as more ancestors.

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Thanks for joining us in this project, John. It's interesting that your Winner name derives from Winne.

You have many New Netherland families to explore. I hope that project membership helps you learn more about your ancestors and New Netherland, and that you will pitch in to help improve the quality of all of our content for the people and history of this time and place.

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Thank you for having me, I will start contributing as soon as I get a couple more ancestors on my father's side entered. Hopefully not too long.

Answer 20

I would like to join this group.  My ancestors include James Jacobus De Baun, Anna Antje Cannif, Johannes Buys and more.  I'm building out this section of my tree and would like to make sure all the profiles are accurate.

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Thank you for joining us in this project, J.

The project tries to maintain resource information to help members build out their ancestry with good sourced data. I hope that project membership helps you learn more about your ancestors and New Netherland, and that you will pitch in to help improve the quality of all of our content for the people and history of this time and place. :-)