Roger that. Mine go back to the mid 1600’s in the Hudson Valley area of New York and most of the folks there were of Dutch origin. Lot’s of Van Xxxx’s and other Dutch sounding names for sure. Looking at the roster of the New York militia from the revolution from that area, I didn’t see many Italian looking names. I think the map is a load.
My Palatine Germans had a trading post in what is now Herkimer County New York
and I had other ancestors in Albany and Schenectady
One early family was on the Neuiw Nederlandt in 1623..Phillip Du Trieux and Susannah Du Chesne..
and I have Groot, De Forest, Van Antwerpen, Van Woert in that area..
That article says the largest population of “Germans” is in Maricopa County where I live. I swear I don’t see a lot of “Germans” around here, although in WWII, Papago Park was the site of the largest breakout of German-WWII prisoners. They saw “Salt River” on the map and thought it was free flowing to the Gila-Colorado and on to the Gulf of California. lol Some even settled here after the war.
My Dutch ancestors came over in the 1620s, helped found Brooklyn and lived there until the early 20th c. But my American Indian ggg’s family was here long before.