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In memory of my maternal grandmother Maria Theresia Coppens (1915-2012), who was born in Rotterdam on 7 June 1915 – a hundred years ago today.
The age of my grandparents

The age of my grandparents

My grandparents were roughly the same age, there was less than five years between the eldest and the youngest. The eldest was my paternal grandfather, Henk (Hendrik, officially) van Kampen. As the eldest son of the eldest son, I was named after him. Opa Henk, as we,...
Sunday Morning Genealogy Fun: Meeting ancestors

Sunday Morning Genealogy Fun: Meeting ancestors

Because of the time difference, Randy’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun is actually Sunday Morning fun for me. This week’s assignment: 1) Write down which of your ancestors that you have met in person (yes, even if you were too young to remember them). 2)...
My research

My research

My main focus is my ascendancy chart (kwartierstaat in Dutch, Ahnentafel in German), an overview of as many ancestors as I can find, in as many lines as possible. On my website, I have cut my kwartierstaat in several parts. When I started my website, four of my...