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Apr 20
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A Most Unfortunate Ending Here’s an interesting series of articles I ran across… that might make a good story line for The Twilight Zone. The incident actually happened on July 20, 1866 which was a Friday… so it also qualifies as a Freaky Friday!! [There are some inconsistencies, so the story may have been embellished [...]
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Nov 10
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I had my DNA tested a few months ago, using the Paternal Lineage Y-46 method through Ancestry.com. I compared my results to some info I found on the Frisian peoples and to a couple of other individuals who joined my Fonda DNA Group on Ancestry.com. There is not yet enough DNA data to find any [...]
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Nov 05
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I came across this record last year sometime, and the exercise to determine the voyage date spurred my memory. The first tangible record of Jellis (Gillis) in America has been established as that found in Fort Orange on October 15, 1651 when he received permission from the court to distill liquor in Greenbush, a small [...]
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Nov 05
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The “Famous Frisians in America” book had a record for the burial of Abraham Fonda, youngest child of Jellis Douw, in Amsterdam on October 28, 1650. This new information has led me to revise the thinking on the voyage to America. Here is the account I just posted on the main website: Jellis Douw Fonda [...]
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Oct 20
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The book, “Famous Frisians in America” is now available for purchase. There are 8 pages on the Fonda Family which detail the history of Jellis Douw Fonda, who emigrated from Amsterdam to New Amsterdam in about 1650. It provides some ideas on his origins in Holland including some new angles on how he came to [...]
