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Vannatter
Posted by Don VanNatter <dgvannatter@interhop.net> on Mon, 27 Jun 2005, in response to Where did my last name originate, what background or country is it from?, posted by Rex Vannatter on Sun, 24 Aug 2003
Have reams of information re our sur Name, VanEtten, Vanatta, etc, from our original fore father who came to New Amsterdam, approx 1653, had a family of ten, five boys, I decend from the youngest of them, Jacobus VanEtten, before that the name was Jacobusen, chaned to VanEtten, when the British took New Amsterdam and renamed it New York, they took a personel census and then our forefather changed it to VanEtten, that was the place he was from in Holland, atter,Responses
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