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From: Albert Buys <>
Subject: Re: [D-Col] Holland
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:15:48 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <008c01c29d40$94696c80$8616e1ce@lbowdish>


On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, David Roberts wrote:

>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Protzman, RL (Robert)" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 2:37 PM
> Subject: RE: [D-Col] Wynkoop
>
>
> > Robecca,
> >
> > I believe that there is a Wynkoop Genealogy on the web. Try a search with
> > google.com for Wynkoop + genealogy, and see what turns up.
> >
> > Holland is a Province (state) of The Netherlands. Actually, there are
> two,
> > North Holland and South Holland. Amsterdam is in South Holland, and as
> the
> > prominent trading city, and therefore the name of it's Province has often
> > been used (by Americans, at least) to signify the whole country of The
> > Netherlands.
> >
> > Bob
As far as I know Amsterdam is in North Holland !!

Albert
From Holland

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