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I'm so pleased that the web site was helpful! I've e-mailed you separately, but wanted to add that my grandfather always said the Krums were "Low Dutch," but nobody knew what that meant. I read the answer in the book "Island at the Center of the World," which is about the Dutch in New York. Seems that the Dutch who settled in New Amsterdam and spread into the countryside kept many old customs and especially the old Dutch language that they came over with. The Netherlands, however, continued to change over the decades, as countries do, and their language evolved also. It finally got to the point that people from the Netherlands, visiting in colonial New York, could not understand the "Low Dutch" spoken by the descendants of those original Dutch settlers.
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