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Our Goal is to create a Portal or place for members from all over the World with 'Dutch Roots', or without the 'Roots' but interested in the Netherlands-United States connection, where they can find everything that's helpful or interesting.

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General

  • New Netherland Research Center New York State Library. Opened to the public in November 2010, the New Netherland Research Center (NNRC) is located in the New York State Research Library. It provides a permanent location where students, educators, scholars, and researchers worldwide can access translations of early Dutch colonial manuscripts and a vast library of early documents, books, and reference works that tell the fascinating story of the Dutch global reach during the American colonial period.

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Terminology and Definitions

"Low Dutch" was a term used by descendants of the Dutch settlers of New Netherlands to designate their origin in the low countries of Europe, Holland and Belgium in order to emphasize their difference from immigrants of Germany and Switzerland who were referred to as "High Dutch" or sometimes "Pennsylvania Dutch". Using the term "Low Dutch" enabled them to hold on to their culture, maintaining a strong sense of their Dutch origins, religion and language.

Immigration and Emigration

  • New Netherland and Beyond New Netherland was not limited to only Dutch Immigrants, people of many countries settled the area. In the 1600's, the Dutch, English, Swedes, French, Germans to name a few, filled the northeastern coast of what is now the U. S., claiming parts, engaging in wars and making agreements to tracts of land that often changed hands. Disputes among the different governing nations, led to divisions of land.

Dutch Settlements

  • New Netherland (Dutch: Nieuw Nederland; Latin: Nova Belgica or Novum Belgium) was a 17th-century colony of the Dutch Republic that was located on the East Coast of North America. The claimed territories extended from the Delmarva Peninsula to extreme southwestern Cape Cod, while the more limited settled areas are now part of the Mid-Atlantic States of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut, with small outposts in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. The colony was conceived by the Dutch West India Company (WIC) in 1621 to capitalise on the North American fur trade. During its first decades, New Netherland was settled rather slowly, stemming both from policy mismanagement by the WIC as well as conflicts with American Indians. During the 1650s, the colony experienced dramatic growth and became a major port for trade in the North Atlantic. The surrender of Fort Amsterdam to England in 1664 was formalized in 1667, contributing to the Second Anglo-Dutch War. In 1673, the Dutch re-took the area but relinquished it under the Second Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War the next year.
  • New Netherland settlements New Netherland (Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch) was the 17th century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the northeastern coast of North America. The claimed territory was the land from the Delmarva Peninsula to southern Cape Cod. The settled areas are now part of the Mid-Atlantic states of New York, New Jersey, and Delaware, with small outposts in Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Its capital of New Amsterdam was located at the southern tip of the island of Manhattan on the Upper New York Bay. The region was initially explored in 1609 by Henry Hudson on an expedition for the Dutch East India Company. It was later surveyed and charted, and was given its name in 1614. The Dutch named the three main rivers of the province the Zuyd Rivier (South River, now the Delaware River), the Noort Rivier (North River, now the Hudson River), and the Versche Rivier (Fresh River, now the Connecticut River). They intended to use them to gain access to the interior, the indigenous population, and the lucrative fur trade.
  • Tarrytown New York is a village in the town of Greenburgh in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is located on the eastern bank of the Hudson River, about 25 miles (40 km) north of midtown Manhattan in New York City, and is served by a stop on the Metro-North Hudson Line. To the north of Tarrytown is the village of Sleepy Hollow (formerly "North Tarrytown"), to the south the village of Irvington and to the east unincorporated parts of Greenburgh. The first European settlers of Tarrytown were Dutch farmers, fur trappers, and fishermen. Records show that the first Dutch residence in Tarrytown was built in 1645; however, the exact location of this residence is not known. Tarrytown sits within the lands of the former Dutch Colony of New Netherland which became English territory in 1674 with the signing of the Treaty of Westminster. The name may come from the Dutch tarwe, meaning "wheat". The writer Washington Irving described Tarrytown in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820)
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Iowa

Note that the 1925 Iowa census has a 2nd page that lists parent's names
  • Dutch in 1850 US Census in Iowa - tables with the Dutch born people living in Iowa at the time of the 1850 census – please add links to wikitree profiles!
  • Pella, Iowa In 1847, 800 Dutch immigrants led by Dominee (Minister) Hendrik "Henry" P. Scholte settled the area known as Pella. The name "Pella" is a reference to Pella of the Decapolis, where the Christians of Jerusalem had found refuge during the Roman–Jewish war of 70;[4] the name was selected because the Dominee and the rest were also seeking religious freedom. It was the childhood home of Wyatt Earp, whose father Nicholas Porter Earp had settled on a farm near Pella. His brothers Warren and Morgan were born in Pella. See Pella, Iowa – Windmills, Tulips and All Things Dutch

Michigan

  • Holland Michigan Ottawa County was originally populated by Ottawa Indians. In 1846, Reverend Alex Tomasik established the [Wing Mission] as an outreach to the native population. Holland was settled in 1847 by Dutch Calvinist separatists, under the leadership of [Albertus van Raalte]. Dire economic conditions in the Netherlands compelled them to emigrate, while their desire for religious freedom led them to unite and settle together as a group. Van Raalte and his colony settled on land in the midst of the Ottawa (Odawa) people's Old Wing Mission Colony near the Black River where it streamed to Black Lake (now Lake Macatawa) which, in turn, led to Lake Michigan. Joint occupation by the two communities was not a marriage made in heaven. Eventually, the Dutch settlers purchased the land from the natives, who moved north in an effort to preserve their way of life and culture.In 1848, Michigan suffered from a smallpox epidemic. In consideration of the massive influx settlers into the Ottawa County area, Chief Peter Waukazoo and Reverend George Smith decided to move the community as well as the Holland-area Ottawa Mission from Holland up to Northport (on the Leelanau Peninsula) via on boats and canoes. In Holland's early history, Van Raalte was a spiritual leader, as well as overseeing political, educational and financial matters. In 1847 Van Raalte established a congregation of the Reformed Church in America, which would later be called the First Reformed Church of Holland. On March 25, 1867,[13][14] Holland was incorporated as a city with Isaac Cappon being the city's first mayor. The city suffered a major fire on October 8–9, 1871, the same time as the Great Chicago Fire in Illinois and the very deadly Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin.[15] Because of the Great Michigan Fire (which included the Port Huron Fire of 1871), Manistee and Port Huron, Michigan also burned at the same time. See [Nelis' Dutch Village - Holland, Michigan] and [Western Michigan Dutch]

Texas

  • Dutch Texans The first Dutch person in early Texas was Baron de Bastrop (1759-1827). Pieter Nieveen and Mr. Roelofs brought a colony of Dutch farmers to Denton County, but their efforts failed. Another unsuccessful Dutch colony was started at Gothland. In 1895 Dutch investors formed the Port Arthur Land Company with 66,000 acres of prairie land in southeast Texas for sale. In 1897 George Rienstra was the first Dutch immigrant to buy some of the land. Fifty families followed Rienstra a few months later. They started the town of Nederland east of Houston.
  • Nederland Texas Nederland was founded in 1897 by Dutch settlers as a repayment for financial services of Dutch bankers who financed the Kansas City Southern railroad line that runs through the center of the city. (Nederland, which literally translates to "Lowland", is the Dutch name for the Netherlands.) The more prominent families were named Rienstra, Doornbos, and Van Oostrom, and their descendants still live in the area today. Tradition says they were attracted to the flat coastal terrain that reminded them of their homeland (although the heat most certainly did not). Nederland's early economy was driven by rice and dairy farming. However, the depression of 1907 and overproduction caused the rice industry in the town to collapse. Many Dutch settlers moved away from the area during this time, but a small percentage remained. After the Spindletop gusher discovery of 1901 and the establishment of the Sun Oil terminal near Nederland, the town became a residential community for the workers of the nearby oil terminals. Nederland became incorporated as a city in 1940

Wisconsin

  • Dutch in Wisconsin Between 1840 and 1890, Wisconsin was a major center of Dutch immigration. Dutch immigrants to Wisconsin were easily divided into two basic groups based on religious affiliation--Protestants and Catholics. The Protestants were the first to arrive in Wisconsin and settled mainly in Sheboygan, Fond do Lac, Columbia and La Crosse counties. The Catholics preferred the Fox River Valley. The first general influx of Dutch began in 1844 with the "Seceders," Dutch who had broken from the Reformed Church of the Netherlands and came to Wisconsin seeking religious freedom. This first group established the town of Alto in 1845, one of the first Dutch communities in the Midwest. Until the 1850s, few Dutch lived in Milwaukee as the city was seen as a temporary stop on the way to agricultural lands further west. Father Theodore Johannes Van den Brock was an early promoter of Dutch Catholic immigration to Wisconsin and beginning in 1848, he helped to bring 40,000 Catholic Dutch to Wisconsin. Most Dutch immigrants to the Fox River Valley followed the Erie Canal-Great Lakes route, landing in Green Bay where many chose to remain. Later Dutch settlements in Wisconsin were generally small agricultural communities.

Notable People

  • Dutch Americans According to the 2013 American Community Survey, an estimated 4.5 million Americans claim total or partial Dutch heritage. Today the majority of the Dutch Americans live in Michigan, California, Montana, Minnesota, Illinois, New York, Wisconsin, Idaho, Utah, Iowa, Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
  • Martin Van Buren (born Maarten van Buren; December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862) (Wikitree Profile) was an American statesman who served as the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. A founder of the Democratic Party, he held a number of senior positions in the U.S. Federal Government, including eighth Vice President (1833–1837) and tenth Secretary of State (1829–1831), both under Andrew Jackson. Van Buren won the presidency by promising to continue Jackson's policies. Of Dutch descent, he is the only U.S. President who spoke English as a second language. Biography and Family Tree
  • Roosevelt Family The Roosevelt (van Rosenvelt) family is an American business and political family from New York whose members have included two United States Presidents, a First Lady, and various merchants, politicians, inventors, clergymen, artists, and socialites. Descendants of a mid-17th century Dutch immigrants Claes Martenzsen Van Rosenvelt and Jannetje Samuel to New Amsterdam, many members of the family became locally prominent in New York City business and politics and intermarried with prominent colonial families. Two distantly related branches of the family from Oyster Bay on Long Island and Hyde Park in Dutchess County achieved national political prominence with the elections of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909) and his fifth cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945), whose wife, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, was Theodore's niece. The Roosevelt family has been associated with many prominent institutions, including Harvard University and Groton School, which was first attended by Franklin Roosevelt and later by many of both his and Theodore's children and descendants.
  • Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) (Wikitree Profile) was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, and naturalist, who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He also served as the 25th Vice President of the United States from March to September 1901 and as the 33rd Governor of New York from 1899 to 1900. As a leader of the Republican Party during this time, he became a driving force for the Progressive Era in the United States in the early 20th century. His face is depicted on Mount Rushmore, alongside those of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln. His paternal grandfather Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt (1794 - 1878) was of Dutch descent his other ancestry included primarily Scottish and Scots-Irish, English and smaller amounts of German, Welsh, and French Biography and Family Tree
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt (/ˈroʊzəvəlt/; January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known as FDR, (Wikitree Profile) was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and emerged as a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century. Roosevelt directed the United States government during most of the Great Depression, implementing his New Deal domestic agenda in response to the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. As a dominant leader of his party, he built the New Deal Coalition, realigning American politics into the Fifth Party System and defining American liberalism throughout the middle third of the 20th century. His third and fourth terms were dominated by World War II. He is often rated by scholars as one of the three greatest U.S. Presidents, along with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln Biography and Family Tree
  • Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (/ˈɛlɪnɔːr ˈroʊzəvɛlt/; October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962), (Wikitree Profile) was an American politician, diplomat and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, having held the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, and served as United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952. President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements. Roosevelt was a member of the prominent American Roosevelt and Livingston families and a niece of President Theodore Roosevelt. Biography and Family Tree
  • Warren G. Harding Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) (Wikitree Profile) was the 29th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1921 until his death in 1923. At the time of his death, Harding was one of the most popular presidents, but the subsequent exposure of scandals that took place under his administration such as Teapot Dome eroded his popular regard, as did revelations of an affair by Nan Britton, one of his mistresses. In historical rankings of the U.S. presidents, Harding is often rated among the worst. Biography and Family Tree

Military Inventors/Engineers

Carl Lucas Norden (April 23, 1880 – June 14, 1965) was born Carel Lukas van Norden on April 23rd, 1880 in the Dutch colony of Semerang, Java (now Indonesia), the third of five children. Following the death of his father in 1885, the family returned to Holland, then moved to Dresden, Germany in 1893. Norden was born in Semarang, Java. After attending a boarding school in Barneveld, Netherlands, he was educated at the ETH Zürich in Switzerland.

In 1896, he began a three-year apprenticeship in a Swiss machine shop, after which he entered the world-famous Zurich Federal Polytechnic School. He graduated as a mechanical engineer in 1904 and came to America.

Norden won several patents on control systems for launching aerial torpedoes from ships. He also designed and furnished many instruments and devices for the U.S. Navy. Some of these devices included robot flying bombs, radio-controlled target planes, and the catapults and arresting gear used on aircraft carriers. He also worked on a control system for aircraft, with others, which proved to be a precursor of the automatic pilot. In 1921, Norden began work on an instrument which could drop bombs from an aircraft and hit targets on land or sea.

In 1931, Norden demonstrated to the Navy a much improved bombsight. Its accuracy so impressed Navy officials that they promptly ordered forty sights. The Army Air Corps also placed its own order. Norden was a quiet and unassuming man who was proud that the bombsight could be used for strategically striking military targets, while minimizing collateral damage to surrounding civilian populations and structures such as churches, schools, and homes.

One interesting fact is that Norden did not make money on the bombsight during the war; instead he sold his rights to the sight to the government for one dollar. Carl Norden returned to Switzerland shortly after World War II and died in Zürich, Switzerland in 1965.

Norden Bombsite

To guide bombs on target with acceptable accuracy requires an aircraft to correct for drift while maintaining a constant altitude and airspeed. Even minor fluctuations can cause a miss, and the greater the altitude, the greater the potential for error. To overcome this problem, Norden devised a gyrostabilized automatic pilot. On the approach to the target, the autopilot would be turned on to reduce turbulence and “overcontrolling” by the pilot. The bombardier would take over and keep the cross hairs of the sight centered on the target. At the critical moment, the bombs were released and a green light in the cockpit would flash in the cockpit, informing the pilot that the bombs were gone and he could resume control of the aircraft.

Religion

  • Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRCNA or CRC) is a Protestant Christian denomination in the United States and Canada. Having roots in the Dutch Reformed churches of the Netherlands, the Christian Reformed Church was founded by Dutch immigrants who left the Reformed Church in America in 1857 and is theologically Calvinist. The Christian Reformed Church (CRC) split from the Reformed Church in America (then known as the Dutch Reformed Church) in an 1857 secession, which was in part the result of a theological dispute that originated in the Netherlands.

Dutch Companies

Dutch Organizations

  • THE NEW NETHERLAND INSTITUTE For more than three decades, the New Netherland Institute (NNI) has helped cast light on America’s long-neglected Dutch roots. Created in 1986 as the Friends of the New Netherland Project, it has supported the transcription, translation, and publication of the 17th-century Dutch colonial records held by the New York State Library and State Archives.


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McKay-2027 Melissa McKay
Thanks for letting me know. The link is fixed now.
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Molier-3 B. W. J. Molier
The link for the Texas Dutch is broken. I've added the link to "Baron" de Bastrop.
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