Many recent Italian immigrants with the Fonda surname have been included in the American Fonda database... first to differentiate from the original Dutch-American line... then as a separate project to try and establish some descendancy lines.…
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…
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…
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…
According to Wikipedia, the Frisian people are characterized by the R1b subclade U106 DNA profile: "Based on Y-DNA studies, it is believed the Frisian Y-DNA Haplogroup to be from the Haplogroup U106/S21 and its downstream subclades.…
