Cornelis van Kampen 1838-1914

Marriage certificate of Hendrik van Kampen and Geertje Wiesenekker

Posted by Henk van Kampen on 7 Jul 2011 in Hilversum, KAMPEN Barend van 1840-1918, KAMPEN Cornelis van 1838-1914, KAMPEN Dirk van 1870-1951, KAMPEN Folkert van 1869-1928, KAMPEN Hendrik van 1877-1941, My roots, PRINS Willempje 1856-1842, VEERMAN Lammertje 1846-1883, WIESENEKKER Geertje 1879-1957, WIESENEKKER Gijsbert 1855-1924 | 0 comments

Last week we had a look at the birth certificate of my great-grandfather, Hendrik van Kampen. Today we look at the wedding certificate of him and his wife Geertje Wiesenekker. Like the birth certificate, I found it on FamilySearch.org. Click to enlarge. A wedding certificate can be a long document, and often contains a lot of interesting information – like the names of the parents, whether they are still alive, and if so, where they live. I won’t transcribe and translate the entire certificate, I’ll just summarize: On 14...

Birth certificate of Hendrik van Kampen

Posted by Henk van Kampen on 30 Jun 2011 in Hilversum, KAMPEN Barend van 1840-1918, KAMPEN Cornelis van 1838-1914, KAMPEN Hendrik van 1877-1941, KLOESE Antonie te 1807-1885, My roots, VEERMAN Lammertje 1846-1883 | 0 comments

A large part of the BMD records of the Dutch civil registration is indexed on sites like Genlias. In many cases, scans of these records are available for free on FamilySearch.org. Over the next weeks I will have another look at the BMD records of my great-grandparents (if available online). I have seen these a long time ago, most of them on microfilm (except for most death records, those are not available yet). I have made extracts of them, but no copies. Now that most of them are online I can have another look, and share them here on Roots....