Name: Cornelis van Kampen
Date of birth: 16 September 1838 in Hilversum
Date of death: 29 August 1914 in Hilversum
Parents: Volkert van Kampen, Maria Hogenbirk
Spouse: Gerritje de Rooij (marriage: 5 January 1861 in Hilversum)
Children: Maria (1862), Mijntje (1863), Teuntje (1866), Volkert (1869), Jacobus (1872), Lijsje (1874), Dirk (1876), Cornelis (1878), Jacob (1881)
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...
read moreA 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....
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