I had read multiple times that my 8th great grandfather, Cornelis Cornelisse Doremus, was born in the Netherlands. His family were supposedly French Huguenots who escaped religious persecution of protestants in France by moving to Holland in the mid 1600s. His father, Cornelis, brought his young family to New Amsterdam in the New World in about 1685 or 1686. Cornelis Doremus, my 9th great grandfather, is listed on the National Huguenot Society’s list of qualified Huguenot ancestors. But, I’d never seen any proof that Cornelis Cornelisse Doremus was born in the Netherlands. Until this week. In January of this year,...