In December 2009, I (Sean Staats) received the honor of being elected to membership in the Holland Society of New York. The HSNY has a strict membership requirement in that you must be a descendant of an ancestor, along your direct-paternal line, who lived in New Netherland before or during 1675. How is it that I could possibly meet that requirement? The immigrant ancestor of my direct, paternal line is Jan Pieterszen Van Husum (also known as Jan Pieterszen Van Huysen.) He was born in 1605 and aro