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Where Did The Dutch Really Come From - A Genetic Mystery
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- Published on Mar 15, 2026
- You think you know the Dutch - bicycles, canals, windmills, and tulips.
But what if the real story of the Dutch people begins far beyond the modern Netherlands, deep in ancient Europe, long before borders, flags, or nation-states existed?
In this video, we explore the true origins of the Dutch people, tracing a fascinating journey from early Germanic tribes of the Rhine River Delta to one of the most influential maritime powers in human history. This is not a surface-level history lesson - it’s a deep dive into culture, language, migration, engineering, exploration, and DNA.
We uncover how life below sea level shaped a population obsessed with precision, planning, and innovation - a mindset that later powered global exploration and trade. From ancient flood defenses to ocean-crossing fleets, the Dutch transformed environmental challenge into global reach.
We will find out:
Who the early Germanic tribes of the Netherlands really were
How Frankish, Frisian, Saxon, and Batavian roots shaped Dutch identity
Why Dutch language reveals deep connections to English and German
How genetic studies uncover ancient migration patterns still visible today
Why Dutch DNA shows remarkable regional continuity over more than a millennium
How maritime expansion carried Dutch language and culture across continents
Why the Netherlands played a far larger global role than most people realize
Using modern genetics, historical records, linguistics, and archaeology, this video connects events separated by thousands of years into one continuous story - from Bronze Age migrations to the Dutch Golden Age and beyond.
This is not a story of clichés.
It’s a story of adaptation, persistence, innovation, and global connection.
If you enjoy videos that challenge simple origin myths and reveal how deeply connected human history really is, this one will completely change how you see the Netherlands - and perhaps how you see human origins themselves.
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some old Germanic tribe saw the marshes of the Netherlands and said "ja jongens, ik denk dat ik dit wel wat vind hoor, ik sta hier gewoon helemaal om te popelen" and now I'm here
'wel 'n beetje nat, vi'j nie?'
I'm still think that!
@pinky8773 Klompuh jonguh!!
@pinky8773 niet aanstellen gij bent toch nie gemaakt van suiker?
"Zweet me de tandjes, mooie plek voor een terp jongens!"
It's fun and unusual to come across a photo in a video of your grandmother, uncle, and your mother as a young girl who recently passed away. A lot of the old photos shown in the video were taken in Volendam, the village where I grew up.
Wow😮
My condolences.
Heftig...!
Did you give them the photo of your family members?
Dat is wel bizar
Every day when I drive to work here in the Netherlands I pass a sign next to the highway marking the former border of the Roman empire. I think that's cool.
waarschijnlijk langs de N11 😊?
Yes, we burned Varus his bottom in Kalkriese.
Joh, waar?
@hisss A4 tussen Leiden en Den Haag
@rchin75 Mooi man. Toch eens een excuus verzinnen om die hoek eens te bezoeken...
I enjoy how you assumed that since we use the same letters for school and water that you could just pronounce it in english
Yeah, this guy needs to learn how to pronounce tuin (Dutch) and Schule (German)...
Exactly what I was thinking it kind of ruined the video for me. Naast zijn schoenen lopen zullen we maar zeggen 😂 schoen, shoe, ehm vergeten wat het in het Duits is😅
Lol completely different pronounceation
Hahaha. And tuin isn't "toowin".
It made me think this might be an ai voice
Nederlandse Marokkaan, maar zeer interessant dit.❤
Hi ! Dutch Canadian ! Also very interested 🧢💙🇨🇦
Hi dutch indo, very interesting indeed!
My 10th great grandfather was Johannes De Decker, from the Netherlands, he was one of the 6 attorneys that negotiated the articles of Capitulation, when Britain took over New Amsterdam and turned it into New York City, he was banished to live on Staten Island for the rest of his life.
Na zoveel geschiedenis over Nederland te hebben geinhaleerd kan ik met zekerheid zeggen dat we écht te vaak in de maling zijn genomen/bedreigd zijn door Groot Brittannie om hun werk te doen. New York hebben ze uit angst gegeven omdat GB dreigde Suriname in de fik te steken omdat we met de Fransen voortgang boekten daar.
Alsnog, hoort het gelukkig niet meer in deze wereld. Hopelijk zal Nederland ook een voorbeeld blijven, en niet worden getokkificeerd
@MCDek Gegeven? Ik dacht dat het geruild was tegen Suriname?
@Steyvan ja oeps, foutje niet curacao nee😂. Maarja het feit dat NL de eersten waren in Australie, Tasmanie en Nieuw Zeeland en de 'in opdracht van' ervoor zorgde dat onze bijdrage werd verlaagd naar huurlingen, en de opdrachtgever geglorificeerd werd terwijl NL maar stil bleef omdat er maar steeds een zak geld in onze handen en een mes op de keel werd gelegd. In ieder geval lijkt het mij dat die 'transactie' van New York ook meteen de laatste was.
@SteyvanThats (sort of) a myth. The Dutch 'managed' New Amsterdam (New Netherlands) as a factory. Nót as a proper colony or part of the homeland. After a few decades in its existance the people of New Netherlands tried to gain more civil rights. Claiming that the Dutch-Roman law applied for them as well.
It did gave the current state of New York a history of its own though).
About the management. Considering it to be a part of a company (WIC) the Dutch Directors annpolitical factions calculated it to be unprofitable to maintain the costs of a trading post in a quickly political shifting playfield. They figured that in order to keep the trade going it didn't matter who 'owned' it. (Who owns carrys the risk and costs as well)
Its basically the same what the Brits figured a mere 150years later when thirteen colonies decided to leave the Brittisch crown.
For a (very) short period the Dutch gained New Amsterdam back. Meanwhile having hold on Suriname. But then again the political tide shifted. And Suriname became Dutch an remained so for almost a 300 years.
Maybey i'm not 'mythbusting' but i wanted to clarify that in reality the colonial times where more complex than it might look.
Also back then politicians, directors, officers and Nobilety played chess, and offcourse with the commoners as pons.
Truly the worst punishment in NYC ever: exile to Staten Island
We do call Tasmania Tasmania for a reason. We Aussies acknowledge Abel. And Dirk Hartog Island in the north.
and Arnhemland
Dirk Hartogh bakes the best bread of Amsterdam. 😀 although recently the Vlamish sourdough is catching up. 😀
And your south-east neighbours New Zealand. Named after the dutch province Zeeland.
13:05 this is what struck me most about this fascinating inquiry. “Human origins are never simple, are never pure. …..The truth is messy, the truth is complicated and so much more interesting than the myths”. Lessons to be learned here especially in these times.
How about van Diemens land?
My mother’s mother’s last name was Ice. Because she had red hair they assumed she was Irish. I did the research and dna and found that the name was originally Eijs and my grandmother was almost entirely Dutch.
I belive it's a family name from the provence of Friesland in the north.
There is soooooo much dutch lineage in the US
@franswaardef4709 Not only from Friesland. But I know a family of that name in Friesland.
Gingers are beautiful.
Did you spell her name Eise? As someone already mentioned in the comments it‘s a Frysian name from the most Northern Dutch province Friesland.
I am half Dutch and half Scottish. My father came from Delft after the Second World War. He was a non-Jewish survivor of a German Concentration Camp, and eventually came to Glasgow and met my mother. My maiden name is Klapwijk, which has been traced through history and has connections with Turkey. What an amazing mix-up of a world we live in!
How does klapwijk relate to Turkey? I have family in turkey who look Scottish or Dutch.
@td2222 Thank you for your reply. The family Klapwijk was researched many years ago and a book was published. But the connections with Turkey are unclear. I suspect, as this video explains, that the connection might stem from the consistent drift of peoples from the Middle East moving northwards and settling in the Lowlands. However, there is a family crest which has, as a central icon, the crescent moon.
@adrianastewart4762Thank you for your time. I don't know about the migration direction though, because a whole region in Turkey is blonde with blue or green eyes, my family too, but we're Turks. Thanks again.
@td2222That is very interesting. There is a wonderful saying in Scotland which says - "We are all Jock Tamson's bairns". This means that we are all the same, no matter where we come from. Kind regards.
Great video! As an Afrikaans speaking South African, I was aware of the Dutch colonization and how it shaped my people's language and culture here. But I was very surprised to find out where the island of Tazmania got it's name, and that they actually discovered Australia as well! (Also, in Afrikaans we say "Water", "Skool" and "Tuin...)
You are sooo confused and wrong like most people are and wrongfully thinking it was Dutch people (Jan van Riebeeck) who landed in cape town south Africa. Just a few days ago I had a few liberal Netherlands citizens who absolutely hate Afrikaner boer and love the black northern Africa terrorists in my country. When I told them they are wrong by saying we the boers are Dutch descended, they were fighting with me when I told them Jan van Riebeeck was a Netherlands citizen and not a Dutch (Germen) citizen. They were very fast telling me Dutch and Netherlands are the same people, same language same culture. O yea? So, what you are telling me now is that everybody is actually wrong by saying it was the Dutch (German) Adolf Hitler who killed all the Jewish people? You say now the Netherlands and the Dutch Hitler are the same ethnical, nationality, correct? so then it is wrong to say it was the Dutch who killed the Jew people, It was actually the Netherlands people who killed the Jews and the Netherlands should be the people who needs to be hated for the Dutch crimes correct? Jan van Riebeeck was a Netherland citizen not a Dutch his father was Dutch and his mother was Netherlands it is two different nations with two different cultures you cant throw them in to one nation when it is two different countries far apart with two different histories, culture thought they speak the same language. Then it will be the same to say o this guy is typing in English o then he is a Britain or an American whilst I am an Afrikaner Boer and not a Dutch or a Netherlander. Please go study your language then you will know what the meaning of country names, nationality and genetic facts is
@HenkVenter777 Verskoon my meneer Venter, waar het ek gesê dat Duitsers die selfde as Nederlanders is? Ek het in Engels getik, daarom het ek hulle woord vir Nederlands naamlik "Dutch" gebruik.
Ek weet baie goed dat Nederland en Duitsland twee verskillende lande is.
Daar bestaan miskien wêl 'n misverstand rakende die benamings via die Engelse taal, naamlik net soos menig mense verkeerdelik na Nederlanders as Hollanders verwys... (Hul help mens gou reg deur uit te wys dat Holland 'n streek, en nié 'n land is nie)
My afstamming aan vaderskant is direk afkomstig van Duitsland. En aan my moederskant is dit weer Nederlands.
In die 1600's het my Duitse stamvader, Marthinus Ackermann (elf generasies gelede) in Suid Afrika aangeland nadat dit kláár 'n Nederlandse colonie was.
Ek het myself beide Duits én Nederlands geleer praat, juis omdat die invloed van beide tale op my moedertaal, Afrikaans, vir my so interessant is. Ek kan dus vir U ooreenkomste én verskille uitwys tussen die drie bogenoemde tale.
En ek kan ook aan U uitwys dat al twee tale, net soos Engels, van Germaanse afkoms is en daarom sekere woorde deel. Afrikaans is gevorm uit hoofsaaklik Nederlands, maar ook uit Duits.
Oom Jan Van Riebeeck en die ander Nederlanders het 'n groot invloed op die Boere se oorsprong en geskiedenis gehad, daarom het hul aanvanklik in, hoofsaaklik, Nederlands gekommunikeer... in beide hul skrywe en spraak.
For the English readers:
Excuse me, Mr. Venter, where did I say that Germans are the same as Dutch people? I was typing in English, which is why I used their word for 'Nederlands,' namely 'Dutch.' I know very well that the Netherlands and Germany are two different countries.
There may perhaps be a misunderstanding regarding the naming conventions in the English language, just as many people incorrectly refer to Netherlanders as 'Hollanders'... (They are quick to correct you by pointing out that Holland is a region, and not a country.)
My ancestry on my father's side comes directly from Germany. And on my mother's side, it is Dutch.
In the 1600s, my German progenitor, Marthinus Ackermann (eleven generations ago), arrived in South Africa after it was already a Dutch colony.
I taught myself to speak both German and Dutch, precisely because the influence of both languages on my mother tongue, Afrikaans, is so interesting to me. I can therefore point out both similarities and differences between the three aforementioned languages to you.
And I can also point out to you that both languages, just like English, are of Germanic descent and therefore share certain words. Afrikaans was formed primarily from Dutch, but also from German.
Uncle Jan van Riebeeck and the other Dutchmen did have a great influence on the Boers' origins and history, that is why they initially communicated primarily in Dutch in both their writing and speech.
P.S. The confusion regarding "Dutch" often stems from the etymological link between the English word Dutch and the German word Deutsch. Historically, in English, "Dutch" was a broad term for people from various Germanic-speaking areas before it became specific to the Netherlands.
New Zealand was named after the Dutch province of Zeeland, another Dutch discovery. 😊
It was a remarkable feat of seamanship, but it was already inhabited when they arrived - by the Māori who discovered and settled the islands centuries before.
🇦🇺🤝🇳🇿
@helixator3975the original Zeeland is Taiwan and where the Maori are from. And the Australian indigenous are the Ainu people of Japan. Indonesia is named after Aryans? Its why and how they got here got there is the question. Looking into the arresting officers of the Irish Fenian. And why they are called British tars and black and tans. Why the Firman 1830 changed everything. And what ghenhis khan has to do with British moors. And why the white people were knowns as huns across Asia. Also a look at all the rebellions should show you who was persecuted.
@helixator3975 they were chasing their recently freed slaves! It had nothing to do with seaman ship.
The Maori themselves say they weren't the first.
The Maori are the Murrays who are Mauri who are the moors. And the war of independence is what freed them from the janissaries aka redcoats. After Firman 1830
Garden in Dutch is also Gaarde (as in the city of Hoegaarden). Tuin and Town are cognates (Zaun in german).
True, and each of these words, including "garden", reference a plot of land that can be guarded and/or has a fence/wall around it.
As in Midgard, Asgard. Gard, garden. For a North Germanic connection.
@jpdj2715 and garde is also dutch for a group of guards
That is in Flanders, Belgium.
In the Netherlands we use the word gaard only in the word boomgaard.
Boomgaard means orchard.
The Dutch might have forgotten about us here in South Africa, but we are still proud of our heritage.
I'm Dutch, we have not forgotten! Love my brothers and sisters in Suid Afrika ❤
We have certainly not forgotten our brothers and sisters in Suid Afrika. Never forget we are very proud of you guys, ( ok,ok,dad is from Suid Afrika 😅)groeten uit Holland!
We'r proud of our boeren family 🍻
@vrblnslt9094and so you should!😊
We hebben jullie nooit vergeten! Onze regering wel
I am from Frisian ancestors who have a language of their own.
My dad came to South Afrixa in 1968 from Beesterzwaag Netherlands
My surname is Potgieter and my ancestors came from Westvalen on the border of Germany and Holland his name was Jan Harm Potgieter and he arrived in Capetown in 1654 only 2 years after Jan van Riebeeck now i am living in Namibia
Your name translated to english means potcaster. It used to be a profession where a person doing that work casted bowls, pots and pans from bronze/tin.
I am Dutch from the island of Walcheren now living in Brisbane Australia , my Family ,s Surname is typical of Zeeland , a very old name . My family,s history is in Shipbuilding and sailing trading and farming . Funny enough I am a schipbuiler and sail my yacht as a hobby here on the east coast of Australia.
Typical for Walcheren itself to be precise. A Louwerse myself. Village I lived in had 5 families named Louwerse. They belonged to 3 different family lines...and of course we were the ones who didn't have family in the village.😁
Hello fellow Zeeuw, i hope you fare well in Australia!
Groetjes uit Middelburg
My family is from Walcheren also. Our surname goes back to 1502
Brilliant 🎉🎉🎉
You may think you're Australian, but you're a Dutchman through and through. It is in your blood 😁
Probably a lot of men stayed in their local area because a lot of families had farms to run. The eldest son would inherent the farm from his father. The other sons, if any, likely stuck close to home, either working on the same farm with everyone living together or remained somewhere in the local area. In other areas it would be a different type of family business like a fishery or some type of trade
I thought about that to..while the women would go off and find partners..ever expanding out as the generations grew..?
This is what I found in my family history, eventhough later were no farms or family business. That was just what you did. Rotterdam 40km 500years. My grandmothers side is way more fun, France, Belgium, German, Switserland. Even one line with a lot off nobility (very long ago). My genetics show now days mostly Dutch, before that Picts and midieval English.
We had equal inheritance. Recorded back as far as Lex Salica under the Carolingians. So, this is not quite correct.
@TheSuperappelflapMaybe on paper, but in reality it was mostly the eldest son
@bestlaidplans2024 Not in my family
ik heb onze stamboom gemaakt en die gaat terg to 1300 ( van noort/oort, ) en 1500. allemaal boeren en molenaars. ( de haan, pack en vlot)
Daar zit vast heel veel werk in. Voor Napoleon wordt het snel moeilijk.
@PieterBreda Dat hangt ervan af. Ik ben voor een deel van Joodse afkomst. Die wordt goed bijgehouden. En voor een deel van wat vroeger jonkers waren. Daarover is ook veel bekend. Sommige plaatjes dragen de naam van de familie die toen dat land beheerde. Alleen interessant als weetje.
@PieterBredaik ben er al 30 jaar mee bezig. Echt een leuke hobbie. En de siciliaanse stamboom heb ik ook gemaakt tot 1400. Er worden steeds nieuwe dingen openbaar. Je kan alles vinden op familysearch en open archieven.
@LenQueridoAls je familie bekend of van adel was, is het een stuk eenvoudiger. Ik kwam tot 1770. Mijn familie is noch van adel noch bekend. Voor 1770 vond ik niks meer. Mijn neef heeft mijn moeder kant uitgezocht en die kwam to de 1300s. Maar hij is daar zijn hele level al mee bezig.
De haan is mijn achternaam 😂
Dutch native here. You picked the most difficult word "tuin" (garden) as example. The syllable "ui" has no equivalent in English and is by far the most difficult for English native speakers to pronounce. Try Google Translate to hear the sound! But there is a similar Dutch word for English "garden" and German "Garten", which is "gaard". It isn't much in use anymore, but it's still found in "boomgaard" (orchard) and "wijngaard" (vineyard). On a side note, a major shift from Dutch to English is the K into CH: KERK (German KIRCHE) -> CHURCH. Once you recognize these shifts it becomes even more apparent how closely related these languages are.
I also love to explore the similarities, differences and sound shifts between these three languages, along with Afrikaans.
Sometimes Afrikaans has a direct German word in common, but mostly it can be either a word directly copied from Dutch or, more commonly, be traced to a "write what I heard" type of spelling rather than the Dutch spelling while still retaining the same meaning and mostly the same pronunciation.
P.S. The "ui" sound, (as in "Tuin") is also the hardest part for me to pronounce when speaking in Dutch, because the sound has been modified in Afrikaans to where it sounds a little bit more round. To myself it sounds like I'm saying the "ui" part backwards... It's so interesting how languages evolve!
To be fair, "ui" kind of sounds like the "ou" in "out" when a scotsman would say it in their typical accent.
This was so interesting, thanks! I'm from Australia and in 2016 I lived in a town called Denham in Shark Bay (the most Western point of Aus). When I was there it was the 400-year anniversary of Dirk Hartog landing at Dirk Hartog Island and the Dutch royal family visited Denham. There was also a ticketed evening sail on the Eendracht model ship. A fascinating history.
Den Ham is also a village in the Netherlands. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den_Ham
Yes,in Western Australia we are well aware of the first Dutch explorers to arrive here in their wooden vessels ..often shipwrecked off the coast.Amazing journeys the Dutch sailors made,impressive.
I was married to a Dutchman,Machiel Burger,lovely man.His brother,Hubertus,got the height gene.
His family was from Amsterdam,his father an engineer working on dredges.
I like the Dutch,warm hearted and generous to me when l visited in 1972
@jillianluscombe8638 that is so interesting Jillian :) how tall was Hubertus? My hubby is Dutch aswell, his grandparents family are also from Amsterdam. We have a photo framed of his dad, uncle and grandmother in Holland in the 70's all wearing the traditional clothing. We hope to visit one day!
@robbertjurrien7550 oh I didn't know that, thanks Robbert!
If you would have kept our royal family we would have been very much obliged. They are useless.
I stumbled onto this video after watching one on the origins of the Han Chinese. It was great watching this video, so well researched and narrated. I’m Malaysian, ostensibly an Austronesian, so I was pleasently surprised there was a discussion about the Austronesians towards the end. I notice one similarity between the Dutch and the Austronesian and one critical difference. Both Dutch and Austronesians are comfortable around land and water so this explains their seafaring ways that took them over vast oceans. The critical difference is the Dutch developed deep engineering skills and culture to live in their harsh homeland where land and water overlapped each other. The Austronesians overcame islands divided by water but the Dutch had to overcome the enormous challenge of water threatening to drive them out of their land on a daily basis!
There's an interesting rabbit hole as well about ship-building styles. The Netherlands was at the border of the Roman Empire on the coast, where southern and northern European ship-building styles collided. The southern style was built for transporting large amounts of cargo across calm waters and the northern style had speed and open-sea resilience. Result was a hybrid style which had some of the best of both.
Also, we invented the wind-powered sawmill which allowed us to pump out ships 3x faster than the English, which is why we made it all the way to where you live :)
I was adopted and did a DNA test a few years ago. I was told my father was Dutch but I also found that my maternal grandfather was Dutch/German, the rest all Dutch before him. Thanks to the many many people who did our family history I was able to find when they came to New Amsterdam (early 1600s) and all the way back to the Nederlands to the year 1000. I really don't know how because not that many records survived that long ago. It's been a wild ride.
Wow, what a story!
Your ancestors came with the Mayflower to America. 🎉
We don't want you here. Pls stay where you are.
@janalberts6093Mayflower brought english settlers to Massachusetts.
@j@jasfan8247he Pilgrims fled first to Leiden NL, and than sailed to Plymouth from where they sailed to Mass.
At 4:39, please note there's a Dutch word "gaard", that means enclosed area, garden. (Nowadays mainly used in proper names and compounds). "Tuin" used to be the fence around a "gaard (wall or fence in general), akin to the German "Zaun", or English "Town" and over time has come to replace 'gaard'
The GARDEN of EDEN
Hof plein
Rotte ( red in german)
Dam = blood)
True Israël true hebrews
First adam
And where the last adam will come from
...means " fence" in Romanian
My ggggggreat grandfather was a VOC sailor who got off the ship in Cape Town in 1710 and stayed. Ai. What a decision.
The man clearly loved adventure! It’s a trait I have observed among many Afrikaners (descendants from the Dutch). They are curious, hardworking and totally fearless. They don’t believe in the word “impossible” … Your ggggreat grandfather must have been a fascinating individual.
Smart of him, things didn't end well for most VOC sailors. I think the company had a death rate of 50 to 60%.
My first ancestor (a Dane in service of the VOC) was also a sailor that got off at cape Town in 1735 to arrange supplies for the return journey from the East Indies. On the return journey, a severe storm prevented the returning ship from anchoring at the Cape. He got married to another Dane's daughter at the Cape and later became a free burgher, taking to farming and military service.
My mother's Dutch ancestors came to America in 1627. Her French Huguenot ancestors came here in 1653 after living as refugees in the Netherlands. After the English invasion in 1664 many of them moved to Bergen County in New Jersey. The two groups intermarried for almost 250 years. My great grandfather, David de Marest had been the magistrate of Haarlem. Later he purchased 5000 acres from the Leni Lenape natives and built a sawmill and farm. His cousin, Pierre Cresson was another great grandfather and was Governor Peter Stuyvesant's Adjutant. At the time of the English invasion he was in New Amstel which became southern New Jersey and Delaware after the English renamed them. He was fighting the Swedes who were trying to claim it.
In the mid-1800s Great grandfather moved to Brooklyn, in New York. The was a larger number of people there and I gained Welsh, Scottish, Irish, and German great grandmothers. My German grandmother married a Sicilian. My French ancestors came from Normandy and were originally Danish. Despite that mixture 5 of my 7 siblings and I have blue or hazel eyes and blonde hair. We lived in the Wyckoff Heights section of Bushwick. It had once been Dutch, then German, and finally Italian. Now it's mostly Hispanic. I went to the Dutch Reformed Church on Bushwick Avenue. A great uncle had been president of the denomination. His son was president of the Dutch seminary and turned its Liberal Arts college next door over to New Jersey and it became Rutgers University.
We have always been proud of our Dutch heritage. The Dutch are a sturdy and industrious people who thrive no matter where they go.
No one is reading all of that 😂
I Did! I concur with the summarization of sturdy, disciplined and God fearing culture of the Dutch diaspora!
I read all of it too!
Please get your facts right. Abel Tasman was NOT the first to map the coast of Australia. Willem Janszoon did that 36 years earlier, in 1606. Tasman mapped a much larger portion of the coast than Janszoon, but Janszoon preceded him by nearly 4 decades.
None of them mapped anything they all used existing Chinese Nautical maps including Columbus.
@TheSolidheroes You shouldn't believe plot theories. Gavin Menzies has claimed that Europeans used Chinese maps, but historians have debunked this n*ns*nse. The maps were proven to be fakes, produced in the late 17th century.
@j@jacquesmertens3369s of course it gets debunked by another Dutchman you have lied for centuries but unfortunately for you centuries ago the Chinese burned the ships they used to sail across the globe this is a historical fact. They probably burned it because of fear of deceases carried by rats. The Dutch though had no qualms about spreading diseases they happily spread syphillis while forcing people to give up their land and proceeded to rob those people blind. Your historybooks never mentioned these skeletons you have in your closet but its time the truth came out.
@TheSolidheroes You're an incurable plot theorist. There's no doctor who can help you, I'm sorry.
@jacquesmertens3369Hahaha and you are delusional believing your own historybooks. Your historybooks are the conspiracy theories it’s a bunch of lies used to cover up your crimes. And it’s not a theory Shell is still stealing OIL from MY LAND(Indonesie).You want to deny that?
We may have come from Doggerland wich is flooded land in the North Sea, or Frisia, also below the waters of the North sea. Fishermen in Brittain and of the coast near Brittain still find logs and other remnants of a sunken land.
Yes, I was thinking about that, it would make some cultural sense that the people of Doggerland would reverse out of the North Sea, leaving land becoming marshes and settle the same kind of land in the Nederlands.
That's what I was wondering. The lands receded so slowly. Since learning about Doggerland, I am obsessed with learning more about it.
@suen5006 I was rather obsessed with it for a while likewise, fascinating it is... What might lie beneath. ....Could be the birth place of the megalithic cultures around the North Sea for all we know. How I wish I could visit Doggerland! 😊
@JesseP.Watson Learn to dive 😁
@Marcus3x3x3 I'm working on bringing on the next glacial maxima.
I was born in the Netherlands and immigrated to the USA with my family when I was 3. The Dutch are practical. My family came from the Frisian area in the north.
My dad was 100% Dutch even though he’s 3 rd gen. American. We came from Leeuwarden.
@hoppes9658 What would you say is your length? Above, below or average compared to where you live?
@Odder-Being I am 6ft.1in. and live in area of mostly Dutch and Frisian ancestry in the states. The men are mostly 6 ft. To 6ft. 9 in. and the woman can be up to 6ft.
@hoppes9658 Ah that's cool to see that genes really have a effect on newborns because these length's are above U.S.A average. Btw i am Dutch living in the Netherlands and 6ft.3in. and was curious about this. All the best to your family.
@Odder-Being Nice chatting with you and my goal is to visit the old country. Holland and Zeeland Michigan is as close to Netherlands as I’ve got. Take care.
My maiden name was van der Westhuyzen, origin from Brugge.
and now its mohammed?
Baie goed gedoen. My familie is vanaf 1672 hier in Suid-Afrika vanuit Nederland.
Leuk om te lezen dat jullie al zo lang in Zuid-Afrika wonen en toch voel ik de verwantschap vanuit nederland
Onlangs met een Zuid-Afrikaan gewoon in het Vlaams gesproken in Spanje. Spanjaarden verstonden niet waarom we elkaar konden verstaan. Eigenlijk nogal vreemd, maar bon.
Interessant, als een van de eerste dan. Ik zie dat Riebeeck in 1652 landen met de drie schepen: de Drommedaris, Reijger en Goede Hoop en stichtte er een verversing station voor de Azie reizen. Ik ben eens bezig geweest een documentaire te maken over the dutch cemetery in Madagaskar. Ook voor de schepen die om de kaap gingen en daar stranden. Zijn nu nog veel botten op het strand te vinden die van de Nederlandse zeevaarders zijn.
1690s my family arrived at the cape. 1707 Hendrik Biebouw the first documented Afrikaner. so with this the Afrikaner is older than the Zulu and the Xhosa who only started to arrive in south africa in 1790s to 1810. die is jou land, die is my land, nie die bantu se land nie
@Swartskaapjoubaasdit was die koi San se land. Ons voorvaders het gekoloniseer, dit is n skaamtelike geskiedenis.
You never even mentioned that despite their tiny country, they are one of the biggest agricultural exporters on earth.
& one of the best Harbors in Europe
And we should stop with that, feeding the world is not the thing a tiny country should do.
It takes a huge toll on our nature and wildlife.
Houses cannot be built because of nitrogen levels.
@BmanNL1 oh dear poor lefties, cannot decide if they want to save the planet or save the third world - whatever will you do? ha ha ha ha
@BmanNL1
The propaganda machine worked flawlessly on you it seems. Goebbels would be so proud and jealous.
Oh please! Stop!! There are no high nitrogen levels in the Netherlands. Germany,Belgium has much higher nitrogen levels. And nothing is wrong there. Only in the Netherlands. Because they Netherlands is a pilot country for the WEF. Wake up
This hypothesis follows my family experience - the female line through my mother can be traced to Antwerp and France, whilst the male line remained in Rotterdam and Nord Brabant
On my father's side, the family history is documented really well back until about the 1500's. All in North Brabant and incredibly Catholic.
@INHUMANENATIONi hit a brick wall 5 generations in unfortunately as it was a common name
@SiL-uj2zl I can nearly say for certain that if they lived in that area. Even online you can find information about them. I was constantly shocked at how many of their public records weren't just retained but put online.
My own family appears to have taken on a Roman Catholic surname in the 1500's and it's a pretty common name and not just in Holland. So I can appreciate the struggle.
@INHUMANENATIONyes the online resources are fantastic (and in English!) I don't understand what you mean by a Roman Catholic surname?
Same for me on both sides! My father's fathers and my mother's fathers were all from the same region, while my father's mother side is from germany and my mother's mother side is from different Dutch regions and even France.
Thank You for this, I am, American but both my parents families came from Zeeland. They came to USA, six generations ago, and settled in Zeeland, Michigan
thanks for your kind words ...
Michigan, especially the western counties, was extensively settled by the Dutch.
@skwarubwa7083
Yep
I have 9% Dutch ancestry, but none of the height genes passed. We've been deeply vertically challenged for generations. We do like dairy & tulips, & tend to settle where we'll be regularly flooded.
@donutarmageddon7975
Am not tall and blond, either (think my Mother has a little French, on her side), but, living by water, is definitely a must for me, grew up on the shores of lake Michigan and spent my adult life, on the shores of the gulf of Mexico,in SWest Florida
My family is Dutch Sri Lankan. They’re called Burghers and they came with the Dutch East India company in the 1700’s to settle on that tropical island and just never left lol.
That is so cool !
I’m planning on moving to Sri Lanka. I read about 0,3% of the population has a Dutch last name.
Burghers? Today we Dutch still have 'burgers' as a word, meaning citizans. Probably a dark past liked to the name Burghers
We still use 'burgers' meaning citizans. Probably a dark past connected to Burghers name
@Edwin-pq6dgvolgens mij zit je op een verkeerd onderwerp hier
Wat heeft het verband NL - Sri Lanka te maken met Indonesië en de EU ?
Serieus….
My family is of Dutch heritage in Hamburg Germany.
They call us Hamburhgers😅
My grandpa got off the boat in 1902 at age 14. We've been in Wisconsin ever since.
3:38 the dutch got shrek energy - GET OUT OF MY SWAMP!
But we are NOT green.😀😀😀😀
We aren't green, at least most of us aren't but we do have that height indeed, and the temper to kick little gnomes out of our swamps.
Don't listen to these trolls, we are green.
I love onions
Having grown up in the middle of swamp, I can confirm. What they dont tell you about is the mosquitos.
The closest cousins to English are the Frisians and Danes.
Friezen zijn connected aan vikings
I am a descendant of a Dutchman who was one of two survivors of a shipwreck while passing the cape coast in 1799, by Feb 1801 he was back in south africa married to his first of 3 wives. having 11 children....
Very cool to have this background in your genealogy.
Got to love South African genealogy! I think we're cousins 😂
wow awsome you know his Familie name ? i am dutch btw
So - to honour your forebears you chose to name yourself ''shit boner''?
@colonelrobertshaw9170the early settlers had to turn Dutch to work for the voc. My family came from Poperinge which is on the border of France and Belgium near the sea. So technically I'm French catholic Belgian
erg interessant, dank U
Naar mijn inschatting zitten er weinig onnauwkeurigheden in de vertellingen. En alleen Nederlanders weten dat en kunnen die corrigeren.
God created the world but the Dutch created the Netherlands
Er zijn geen goden
@PijnigeR Psalmen 14
1 De dwaas zegt in zijn hart: Er is geen God. Zij verderven het, zij maken het gruwelijk met hun werk; er is niemand, die goed doet. 2 De HEERE heeft uit den hemel nedergezien op de mensenkinderen, om te zien, of iemand verstandig ware, die God zocht. 3 Zij zijn allen afgeweken, te zamen zijn zij stinkende geworden; er is niemand, die goed doet, ook niet een.
Alle "goden" zijn afgoden. Er is één God, schepper van hemel en aarde. En één Heer: Jesus; God geopenbaard in het vlees.
Johannes 14
6 Jezus zeide tot hem: Ik ben de Weg, en de Waarheid, en het Leven. Niemand komt tot den Vader, dan door Mij.
1 Timoteüs 3
16 En buiten allen twijfel, de verborgenheid der godzaligheid is groot; God is geopenbaard in het vlees, is gerechtvaardigd in den Geest, is gezien van de engelen, is gepredikt onder de heidenen, is geloofd in de wereld, is opgenomen in heerlijkheid.
Het evsngelie voor vandaag:
1 Korintiërs 15
1 Voorts, broeders, ik maak u bekend het Evangelie, dat ik u verkondigd heb, hetwelk gij ook aangenomen hebt, in hetwelk gij ook staat; 2 Door hetwelk gij ook zalig wordt, indien gij het behoudt op zodanige wijze, als ik het u verkondigd heb; tenzij dan dat gij tevergeefs geloofd hebt. 3 Want ik heb ulieden ten eerste overgegeven, hetgeen ik ook ontvangen heb, dat Christus gestorven is voor onze zonden, naar de Schriften; 4 En dat Hij is begraven, en dat Hij is opgewekt ten derden dage, naar de Schriften;
God created the earth. Except for the Dutch. They created their own....
And now Muslims will take it over 😅
@PijnigeRAlleen oersoep...
Regarding the words: garden Garten Tuin. It isnt really so different, we, the dutch, have simply picked another word for Garden. But we have the related word "gaard", as in "boomgaard". The english took it from the french Jardin (a frankish word, not a roman word) as they already had the related "yard"
The word "tuin" is related to the english "town" and German 'Zaun' , which basically is a walled place
They were dispatched as pioneers to establish and grow new lands because of their intellect, drive and innovation. They have been overlooked in our history books in my opinion but their legacy lives on throughout the world.
We had the whole South Africa fiasco, how can we forget.
@SzTz100 Each has their own perspective on how a people group changed an area of the world. The Dutch brought S. Africa to the heights of 1st world civilization, and now it is reversing back to before their arrival-- 3rd world primitive and tribal.
Yall took it you do realize that right lol
I am a decendant from the friesan people in the Nerherland for more than 350 yrs we are in Namibia and South Africa strange my father only read the dutch bible not the Afrikaans version....yes we Afrikaners are proud of our Dutch heritage.....my gransdson the 11 th Jan Johannes from the Netherlands...
My dad is Dutch and came to Australia in the 50s when he was around 10
Sally?
Wow! 7:07 have pictures of my great-great-great-great grandopas..and they look like this
This is a Regional costume, and even from a very small area. The Netherlands has had an enormous variety of regional costumes.
I was walking with my son in Seattle and a white van stopped and a man leaned out and said …” You look 👀 like you are Dutch”. “Among other things yes” I answered.
A compliment thought 💭 I. None of my other countries of origin have claimed me.
yes I had the same experience I. Australia..I doctor walked up and said…your Dutch!
I said my father is …how did you know..he said totally look Dutch..I knew it!
I never even considered how or what I looked like. Didn’t think it was obvious?
Or that the Dutch descendent had a certain look? It shocked me..which is also strange.
I can’t really see myself in the pictures here..maybe my fathers mother..yes.
Colonial history is not "uncomfortable". Its just history. A slice of time in its own lense. No need for that disclaimer. Just tell the story objectively.
Didnt he just do that? The fact that he gives a disclaimer doesnt make it subjective?
I think her point is that a disclaimer shouldn't be necessary at all :)
@zacotb You mean the few rich families. The common Dutch were poor and often very poor.
@zacotb Now you may search for the meaning of 'white gold'.
@zacotb I'm Dutch and my ancestors (I have the official documents of about 450 years) are all hard working farmers in a harsh climate especially between 1300 and 1850. Most Dutch people's ancestors were farmers and fisherman. Please do your homework.
Dutch hidden in plain Side. That’s very true. Dutch talent and innovation brought the evolution of the humans forward. That’s a bold but true statement.
Thanks for your explanation
Wish this was a bit more specific and discussed tribes-genetics of the region over time. I know of the Frisians but I'm sure there were others who had distinct genetic markers as well.
Maybe you should ask for a Part 2 / Follow up diggin' deeper into the Dutch DNA pool.
@vinniekay0967 I expressed my interest in learning more. If the channel creator is also interested in the details, perhaps another video may drop in the future.
Batavians as well.
😊 Dutch bicylebrand, Batavus.
The truth is indeed complicated. The Dutch aren't one people, just a combination of a few wester-germanic tribes. I live in the north east of the country. The people here are basically identical to people from west-lower saxony (language used to be the same, neither Dutch or German, but another dialect/ sub-language). The story that we are decendents of the Franks, is more accurate for the people in other parts of our nation. But in the end, I do recognise that we are all a admixture of neigbouring groups.
I think you’re correct. You can just look at the language to see it. Gronings and Fries both are very close to the languages of Niedersachsen, Germany. Below the rivers, the language has much more french/belgian influences (friets vs patat) and I wouldn’t be surprised if the people also come from different places as they more often have brown hair instead of blonde and are smaller.
They are true Israël!
True hebrews !
Charles the Great spent 30 years subduing the Saxons in that area. Different ethnic group but the culture was definitely enforced. Sir Christopher Lee made a few pretty cool metal albums about that stuff.
I can recall that the media once stated that the Dutchman doesn't really exist... And we don't have an own culture... But this kind of shows that was all BS
Its marxism
they aways say that about whites
Also queen maxima of the netherlands a prominent wef member said something similar to us, right into our faces. With her weird accent, she told us that we don't really exist and that we don't have any identity.... the dutchman isn't real, was her end quote. Who does she think she is, telling us that we aren't real, i am real!!
Could what she have said something to do with the current geopolitical situation. We know that they want to abolish all nations into one big superstate, with a one world government and that world must then be inhabited with only one race of mixed people with a somewhat lower IQ. These people will then be governed by the unmixed, the pure bloodlines or as most people would call them; the elites.
Hahaha
Thank you so much for this wonderful documentary; it allows us to learn about our important history.
For many of us, this is unknown.
thanks for your kind words ...
Like to something like this on the Germans and the Irish.
Aragorn is an iberian King, the irish come from many places, iberia being one of them, france, belgium, nordics. but if you want something cool try @HistoryTime and look up Broch and just ireland in his videos. Quite a lot of detail, pretty cool 👽👍🏻
Also due to the fact that Holland was one of the few countries with freedom of religion during the middle ages, many different ethnicities poured into the Netherlands in search of freedom of worship, which contributed to the melting pot of genetics
That happened during the Renaissance, after the middle ages. There was only one church before, the catholic one.
I often wondered if Christ and Mary sort refuge there?
Away from the threats.
But that’s for those who don’t go along with the hypocracy and story tellers to claim it as a religion..
Rome and Roman Catholics…🤔
If I was there back then..it would seem like a good idea at the time?
Abel Tasman in the Duifken indeed sailed to Tasmania and name Nieuw Zeeland but they never landed on the East Coast of Australia. However they had sailed to the NT and landed there but did not exploit it. They called the Northern part the Arnhem Land and the big island in the big bay Groote Eylante.
There are still remnants of Dutch spoken by New York natives
Which ones, I am curious
New Amsterdam
Wat mij het meest verrast is hoe verschillend Vlamingen en Nederlanders zijn, terwijl we al even lang ongeveer dezelfde taal spreken en naast elkaar wonen. Simpel gesteld zijn de Vlamingen al eeuwenlang de 'verliezers' en Nederlanders de 'winnaars'. Waarom toch? En ja, dat treft ons ook nog vandaag altijd diep. We worden ook steeds vergeten. Nederlanders leven in Nederland en spreken Nederlands. Vlamingen leven in België en spreken Nederlands. We zijn bezet in Brussel en in Noord-Frankrijk. Nog een plezante dag!
Ik zou haast willen zeggen maakt uw eigen documentaire en begin dan met wat jullie konings koning Leopold in de Congo uitgevreten heeft. Niet dat die Nederlanders van die lieverdjes waren maar allee, ge moogt van mij aanvangen!
Als Nederlander zijnde wil ik hier alleen maar op zeggen dat ik persoonlijk Belgische mensen helemaal niet als verliezers zie, integendeel: Nederland kan op veel vlakken nog iets van België leren.
Enjoyed your presentation! What struck me are the many illustrations of “red hair” of the Dutch…. There is a legend of “elusive red haired natives” in New Zealand! Wonder if there is a connection!
Red hair, bleu eyes, wooden ship and steel balls.
German here: your German and Dutch pronunciations were terrible. Also, Karl the great (Karl de Grote) was from nowadays Belgium. He and his forefathers were Frankish (not Burgundian, that's important when you talk about Belgium). But things get messed up, because the Netherlands were in history often referred to as "the lower lands", "the duchy of Burgundy", or "Belgium". Furthermore, the borders of this region were changing drastically over the last centuries and the fact that "Netherlands" and "Belgium" were referring to the same region for some time, makes historical data very confusing. You always have to see a map, what were the "Netherlands" looking like in the time period you are talking about? For over 1000 years it was the duchy of Burgundy....
Warum so ein überheblicher Ton? Schade.
@EIT-q6l5nit is rather arrogant to criticize pronunciation of other people’s place-names. we’re all rather terrible at it, we just love to believe we aren’t. I enjoy facts, but not as much when they’re prefaced with arrogance.
@polyoptikaIf it's ai, it's just sloppiness.
You are so wrong. Not 1000 years, but a bit over 100 years. Burgundy only came in when Philip the Bold married Margareta van Male (daughter of the Flamish earl Lodewijk van Male) in 1369, and ended when their great-great-granddaughter Mary of Burgundy married Maximilian of Habsburg. From then on it was Habsburg territory and Burgundy went back to its original territory in nowadays France. The Dutch battled their way out of Filip II (of Habsburg) and became independent in 1648, while the south (later Belgium) remained under Habsburg for a long time.
@nedesp61Like I said, it is important to talk about the time period. Belgium was part of the region that was called "the lower lands" or "Netherlands". That is why medieval "Dutch" artists sometimes come from nowadays Belgian cities. It is kind of a translation mistake. You are right about what you said. But parts of the Southern Netherlands and Belgium were for some period of time in earlier medieval times part of Burgundy. The Northern parts belonged to other Duchies or even became independant cities. A very interesting and diverse history.
Thank you. My people, Schoonmakers, came to America in the 1600's and still operate one of the oldest farms in New York.
Schoon... Like schooner I presume. What's a schoon? A sail?
@JesseP.WatsonNope. More prosaic. Somebody who makes an area clean. Like a janitor.
@JesseP.Watsonschoon = clean, schoonmaker = clean maker -> cleaner
I think originally it had been Schoenmakers. That is a comment name here in the Netherlands. A lot of names have been changed a little through time. Great that you know your history so well. And they stayed in the same place, what I learned from this video, that is a typical Dutch habit.
@vmhutch Hmm. ...So a three-masted schooner is a large cleaning ship?
Something is missing from this picture methinks.
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The term "schooner" first appeared in eastern North America in the early 1700s.[6] The term may be related to a Scots word meaning to skip over water,[7] or to skip stones.[8] ]
The North to South population stream is also found in the story's of (about) the big migration era. After and during the collaose of the Roman Empire the tribe of the so called Frisi abandend the north(west) part of whats now the Netherlands. During that time the migration of the Angles, Jutes and Saxons took place, heading (back and forth) to Brittain. In the meanwhile repopulating whats now the North/west part of the country. As far as whe now know. Those tribes originated in the North of europe (depending on what defenition one uses).
Western Australia, before the federation, was originally known as New Holland. Tasmania was formerly known as Van Diemans Land. There was a wreck of a Dutch East Indies armed merchantman, discovered off the Abroholis Islands in the 1960s. Most of those that survived the wreck, were massacred by some of the crew. Bronze cannon were salvaged, along with carved masonry, that has been erected on the Esplanade, in Geraldton, Western Australia. There is also a maritime museum there as well, with other artifacts, from the wreck.Abroholos is allegedly Portuguese, meaning 'keep your eyes open', in reference to hidden reefs.
Heard some things here that I didn't know about my homeland. Thank you for making this interesting video.
thanks for your kind words ...welcome
So we're swampmonsters & pirates!!
Yea and now we are participating in ICE
Somehow people forget we where Magna Frisia before we where Dutch and spoke old Frisian before we spoke Dutch..
Old Friesian and Old English were overall the same language. Frysia was a kingdom separate of the NL and to this day we still see it as such even though it is a province, they have their own customs and language and its generally almost an ancient sense of cooperation rather than assimilation, the norm was never 'one of us'. In the end the NL should still be concidered as liberated lands under the house of orange, as our last oppressors were Spanish nobles.
I remember finding out that "our" Frisia is just West Frisia, while East Frisia lies in Germany! I also found out we had plenty of Saxons in the east of the Netherlands, with Franks in the south and west of the country.
Frisians and Franks lived alongside each other, they did not speak the exact same language.
@MCDek Take a look at the Twence dialect, and you will notice it is much older and closer to the nordics, but the frysian language was better written down. Also if you look at the place wherre friesian lived and the saxons, the friesian place was more of a marsland the the saxons.
@C.B.32 i like to sum it up as 'the NL is a country, but its people is a concept' because in the end the lands have been inhabited since before the holy roman empire. A germanian family merely defended it.
You make one big “error”
When the bataven came from germany over the rhine in to “the netherlands”
The coast line with its dunes was inhabited by the Cananefaten
According to the latest knowledge the Bataven and Cananefaten where both brought in by the Romans, before there where the Eburonen and the Celtic Menapii and Frisii in the north.
@janenmarelia
That's not even close to being correct. I have no idea where you read that, but whoever wrote it should really study the material again.
@Audulf-of-Frisia maybe you should study your sources again yourself because this common knowledge and also it is a theory so there are more possibilities, but the fact remains that the Bataven and the Cananefaten most probably where related and came from the tribe of the Chatti and they where soldiers for the Romans.
Unless your sources are the old Dutch school history books of 60 years ago of course.
Leaver Dea As Slaef. Rather dead than a slave. Old Frisian saying. Friesland ment Free Country. Frisians kept to themselves in the old days.. Frisians do not consider themselves to be Dutch.
Rather dead than a slave! Old Frisian saying.. Friesland means free country
You had the Marezaten as well
They were master navigators indeed. Look at the speed of that ship when it isn't even flying any sails (5:27)!
I'm really surprised how many words can be said without providing any meaningful information.
No one is hiding Dutch history. At an Australian school in the 1960s I was taught about Abel Tasman and Dork Hartog. As well as the Englishman William Dampier.
Yes many chapters in Dutch history classes in school are dedicated to our past of colonization as well, including all the nasty bits. Nothing is held back.
"Dork" hahaha!
@hisss Sorry just a typo.I know it should be Dirk
@alvanrigby6361 I know mate, 's just funny to me 🍻
@alvanrigby6361ik heet ook Dirk groeten uit nederland
I went to Amsterdam and Rotterdam searching for these mythical beings, alas I don’t have much luck.
Go to the countryside, you’ll find them
Hahah there are no dutch folk to be found in the cities. Like Thomas said, you can find them in the countryside. Be careful though, they are easily spooked! 😂
In Amsterdam and Rotterdam only a minority of Dutch left living there.
Franks(real ones, indo Europeans germanized, and settled there,) batavians, and frisians. Frisians are the most important relation to English people.
Deutsch indies, were not the first :moors, Portuguese, French, and deutsch. Batavians are related to Celtes, those were called gallians by Julius Caesar. And germanic tribes?
The people who were enjoying going on war : wehr men. Warriors men.
Some of these warriors came from the Eastern Europe, or Eurasia. All these tribes spoke keltic language as a lingua franca. You made others mistakes with the Taiwan theory.
Sundaland was the first place developed in the world : all present civilizations, and written scriptures came from this ancient continent.
China, and Japan had their own continent also. When cataclysmes happened. Bases came from Nepal, Tibet, a part of India, Myanmar a southern part of China to group thousands for migration, to replace the ancient vanished and perished old populations. They constitued a joint group of three différents origins Austronesians.
In the archipelago, they met many people of different origins who had survived to the disasters, and they became major natives, majority of the new population.
In Sulawesi, sea travelers explored again islands and oceans to the East. It was not the first time : before the cataclysmes, Sunda people, just as people from the south submerged continent were also connected to islands, and to continents : Antarctica, south Africa, and south America. History of humans was wiped out from Europe, but rose again when Eurasians started to go west, or even south, and gave to Europe a new population.
@FriggeriJean-Marc-bl5kf by this definition the Dutch are a 1000 times more English than even the oldest English families. All 3 of those groups originate in the low countries.
why would we / i be ashamed of colonial history? every race and or group of peoples have done the same.
Or worse, like the Arabs.
6:27 Not the proud part? In our history books this part is literally called the golden century. They are very proud of it. They just don’t tell you abt all the brutal ways they came to their wealth. 😅
Der Bienenzaun heißt auf Plattdeutsch "Immentun". Und mein Vater ist früher in Holland mit Plattdeutsch super klar gekommen.
Plattdeutsch versteht man wenn mann Afrikaans kann...nicht so sehr vom Deutsch.
You really won me over when you stressed that all mankind are migrants and searching for purity is of no avail. It's indeed messy. But very very interesting. And you brought it well. Kudos.👍
Keep ignoring the homo sapiens who STAYED in Africa and it starts to " feel" like a deliberate act of racism.
@track1949 Even they are not isolated from the rest of the world, you're being silly
Beautiful photographs. I am from New York and most of what you said here was taught in school when I was a teenager. I live in Indonesia now and I see the Dutch influence here on a daily basis. What I found interesting was that the first name for Jakarta was Batavia and you mentioned briefly that was the name of early Dutch descendants.
In the Netherlands there are lots of people with Indonesian DNA. Also the cuisine is very much appreciated here mmmmm 😋
@JPE91132 This exactly😘
Got a Dutch and Scandinavian blood in me and yes I did learn about the Dutch history, most of what you shown is actually what I did learn at school.
Zeeland ( sealand ) is a provence in Holland, hence new sealand
You are wrong, it's not a province in Holland, Holland doesn't exist, not anymore. Holland is actually two provinces in the Netherlands, North- and South-Holland. So Zeeland is a province in the Netherlands. Ignorants who keep calling our nation Holland, perpetuate this stupidity.
It’s all Dutch to me 🫣😜
Double Dutch 😂
Nederlander hier ! (Dutch here).
Waar
Makes sense, recently tracked down my heritage all the way back to the beginning of 1600 from 1 side of the family. Turned out that all those generations never left the Holland provinces and only 1 dude got married to a Swedish woman. I am the 1st generation in my family for over 400 years who emigrated to another country
Why did you break the ancient bonds with Holland? I will never ever leave ❤ born and raised. Took my first breath here and give it my last
Why did you leave Holland. It's a beautiful country
Crowdy nowadays
Love the summary at the end! I have the names Van Dyke, Vanderveer, and Van Orden way back in the family tree, but never showed any Dutch DNA in my test. I read that at one time it was hard to tell the difference between English and Dutch DNA with both being germanic, but now geneticists can tell the difference as I believe you said in the video. It's interesting that they stayed in such a soggy place for millenia and managed to become a world empire.
thank you for sharing this ...
Most of us English carry dutch DNA . The jutes anglos and Saxons were dutch/Danish Germanic .
Among the Saxons that came with the Angles back in the day and give meaning to the Anglo-Saxons, were a lot of Frisians. They were often bungled under the name of Saxons because the Saxons wanted to subdue them. One of the main routes to England was also via Fries-land, which stretched all the way down the North Sea coast. The 'Zuider Zee' (South Sea), nowadays IJssel meer, did not exist at the time and was only an inland lake. The closest language outside of the Anglo-Saxon realm to English is the Frisian language, sometimes even closer than some English dialects.
@telebubba5527 The area close to Frisia in the province of North Holland is style called West-Frisia.
As a South African with roots mainly in Holland, I found this FASCINATING
I have AI fatigue
AI voice fatigue
AI script fatigue
Who is still here watching in 2026?
So, I kept seeing my grandmother's cheekbones and so forth. Her mother was a Van Tyl.
I'm a European mutt. I knew I had English, Welsh, Danish, Swedish, Italian. I was tracing back my lines and realized I also have Dutch ancestors. Not sure why it surprised me so much. I find this stuff fascinating.
Mutts are the world best breed,you never can tell what surprises they bring.
Hello from another European mutt, that describes it well. As a Dutch person living in The Netherlands next to the sea, besides Dutch , 18th/19th century Danish, German, East European, Italian, French, but also a drop of 19th century dna from Indonesia. They travelled a lot. Most of that I already knew. But still, it did surprise me what distances they crossed, and how they intermingled when researching the family tree all the way back to Charlemagne and Alfred the Great. That part thanks to my grandmother who had gateway ancestors. A fun pastime during the covid years.
Thank you for the beautiful history lesson. I visited Holland in my youth and was impressed by the landscape and serene beauty.
Amazing video. Thanks
thanks for your kind words ...
Throughout the comments this guy only thanks comments from fake channels probably created by himself to increase views and subs 🤣
Hi, I'm from the US, and have been told some of my ancestry comes from Dutch people.
I think because of spelling mistakes when immigrants came to the US, I cannot find the surname. There may have been confusion of the German ß for English sounds s.
2:40 What's David Bowie got to do with it?
I see a lot of men in Haarlem who resemble David Bowie.. seriously 🤷🏻♀️
I see many men in Haarlem who resemble David Bowie.. seriously 🤷🏻♀️
As a descendent of Dutchmen, (Haplo R-M10145) I do struggle with the need for order and everything in its place and control.. lol
You must be German!😂
Asperger genes 😂
@td2222 For sure. Don't like small talk lol
this is a very informative video, i am suprised you mentioned not only the inovative part but also hinted how it was achieved for those who know. So thank you.
Nice video, I'm Dutch and Molocan and proud of both my heritages. It's not often I see both mentioned in the same video in a positive way.
Mooi
*Moluccan , South (selatan) or South-East (tengarra). Memberi hormat, saudara
Ironically I live in the same place in the Netherlands where my father, grandfather and generations prior lived.
Yet my mother, grandmothers and others before came from all over the region
I have one part of the family that is like that, but eventually both my grandfathers lineage end up in Frisia, and partially from the french hugenots. Apart from the french part, they stayed in hometowns within 50km for centuries, yet travelled everywhere as seafarers.
😂😂😂😂😂
@jaromkes my fathers lineage has lived in the same town in limburg since the 17th century. My mothers came mostly from what is Belgium today
I have my Dutch family coat of arms and a family book (published by relatives in Delft) that goes back to the 1400s. I live in the Central Valley of California which has a sizable number of Dutch dairy farmers. I have friends from church that are from the Netherlands and another family of Afrikaners from South Africa.
Those Holsteins put out volume.
Kingsburg or thereabouts in the Central Valley? I’m from Visalia originally. Miss it.
@AmandaHall-j2o Clovis
@RandallvanOostenClovis! I’m feeling homesick lately. I hear Tulare Lake has made a comeback, I want to see it badly. I miss the crops and the cows too.
When I was a school kid in Nijmegen we saw the ruins of Charlemagne’s castle.
Hoewel ik Arabisch ben, ben ik gefascineerd door genealogie en etnische afkomst, omdat dit vakgebieden zijn die Arabieren interesseren. Germaanse volkeren hebben enige interactie gehad met Arabieren, met name in Noord-Afrika.
Voor zover ik weet, zijn er echter geen sporen van hen te vinden op het Arabische schiereiland.
Thank you - Mere from New Zealand - ancestors sailed from both Rarotonga on waka Takitimu and sailing vessel Q Amelia Thomas from England - to New Plymouth and the Julian from Boston - love your channel