This is a scan of the death register of Hilversum. It contains four death certificates from January 1891. Number 31, on the bottom left, is the death certificate of my 2nd great-grandmother, Aaltje Bollebakker. She passed away on 26 January 1891, at 9 am, at address...
Mietje Houthuijzen is my father’s maternal grandmother – number 11 in my ahnentafel. Her birth certificate states that: On 6 December 1888 appeared for the registrar of Hilversum: Rijk Houthuijzen, merchant, 57, from Hilversum. He declared that on 5...
Last week we looked at the birth certificate of Albert Melessen. Today I show you his marriage certificate. Like the birth certificate, I found it on the website Alle Groningers, the BMD database of the province Groningen. A summary of the certificate: Today, 25...
The challenge for Randy’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun is to list 16 great-great-grandparents: List your 16 great-great-grandparents in pedigree chart order. List their birth and death years and places. Figure out the dominant ethnicity or nationality of each of...
