John Blythe Dobson (b. 1961) has a B.A. (Hons.) in History from the University of Winnipeg. His main genealogical interest is in identifying the origins of early immigrants to New Netherland. Since 2010 he has been a contributing editor to The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. He lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, where he works for the University of Winnipeg Library. He maintains a personal genealogical website at http://library.uwinnipeg.ca/people/dobson/genealogy/index.html, and can be reached by e-mail at johnblythedobson@gmail.com. He welcomes correspondence but does not take clients.

Selected Publications:

“The spurious articles in Appleton’s Cyclopaedia of American Biography — some new discoveries and considerations,” Biography (Honolulu) 16 (1993): 388-408.

“Swaentje Jans and her five husbands,” New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 129 (1998): 161-70.

“The Amsterdam years of Joseph Margetts, father-in-law of Adriaen Hegeman of New Netherland,” New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 130 (1999): 174-80; 131 (2000): 297 (correction).

“Cornelis De Potter revisited,” New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 131 (2000): 260-62.

“Some erroneous marriages in Bergen’s Kings County,” New Netherland Connections 6 (2001): 96-104; 7 (2002): 9 (correction).

“The ver Veelen family in Cologne and Amsterdam,” New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 133 (2002): 123-36, 293 (correction); 135 (2004): 284-85 (further correction).

“The Stoughtons of New England: Their alleged Elys-Notebeme ancestry,” Foundations (Foundation for Medieval Genealogy) 1 (Jan. 2003): 46-50.

“A Note on the Reverend Robert Chamberlayne of Strood, Kent, Father-in-Law of Capt. Richard¹ Betts of Newtown, Long Island,” The American Genealogist 79 (2004): 228-34.

“Notes on the Nevius Family,” New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 136 (2005): 33-44.

“On the origin of Herck Syboutsen, ancestor of the Kranckheyt family,” New Netherland Connections 12 (2007): 63-65.

“Chamberlaynes in the ancestry of the Betts Family of Newtown, Long Island,” The American Genealogist 82 (2007): 227-30.

“A note on the family of Thomas Chatfield, great-uncle of the three Chatfield brothers of Connecticut, and probable father-in-law of Joannes Verveelen of New Amsterdam,” The Genealogist 22 (2008): 212-20.

“Lenaerts and Sassenbroeck, ancestors of the Nevius Family of New Netherland,” New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 140 (2009): 13-22.

“Nevius, Lenaerts, and Sassenbroeck: Updates and New Ancestry,” New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 141 (2010): 292-96.

“The Family of Hendrick Cock of Amsterdam,” New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 142 (2011): 107-16, 195-202; 143 (2012): 308-11 (additions and corrections).

(with Adrian Benjamin Burke and Janet Chevalley Wolfe) “The Exhurst Ancestry of the Stoughton Siblings of New England,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 165 (2011): 245-60; 166 (2012): 46-70.

“The Parentage of Sir Justus Beck,” Notes and Queries 59(2) (June 2012): 188-192.

“Van Oudenhoven: Some New Ancestry of the Verveelen Family,” New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 144 (2013): 33-39.