Re: The surnames Roeg and Rossif.
Funny, I'm Dutch myself, but it didn't appear Dutch to me at all. The bearers of the surname seem to have been Jewish (who lived in Amsterdam in the early 19th century), so perhaps they are descendants of Jewish Germans who settled in Amsterdam.
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