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From: Huub van Helvoort< >
Subject: Re: Hegeman
Date: 7 Apr 1997 07:36:49 GMT
References: <19970404184901.NAA25236@ladder01.news.aol.com>


In article <>,
Birdseed11 <> wrote:
>My maternal grandmother's paternal side were Hegemans. They had been
>settled in Brooklyn, NY (Brooklyn is Dutch for broken land) at one time.

You listened to the wrong bird ;-)

Brooklyn is derived from Breukelen, a city north of the city Utrecht in
the province Utrecht in the Netherlands.
You can find the name Utrecht in New York as well !!

Sorry, no info on Hegemans.

Keep diggin, Huub van Helvoort.

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